SHROPSHIRE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 294260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Soldiers of Shropshire Museum

The Shropshire Regimental Museum/Soldiers of Shropshire Museum incorporates the traditions and history of all the former Shropshire Regiments. It collects, documents, conserves, exhibits and interprets items relevant to the history of these Regiments. The Modern Army Display now includes a regularly updated display of the equipment and deployment of the successor Regiments.

Objects

TO CREATE A SINGLE MUSEUM TO HOUSE AND CARE FOR THE COLLECTIONS OF THE REGIMENTS OF THE COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE.

Area of benefit: SHROPSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £9,866 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a reduction in expenses and an increase in investment values. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of 24-36 months of expenditure, and free reserves stood at £457,836, which is above this target. However, the trustees note significant future risks, including the removal of a £30,000 annual grant from Shropshire Council and the need to secure a lease renewal from 2027.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rex Philip Sartainchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• COL MARIUS COULON
• Col Francis Acton
• Guy Philip Chambers · trustee of 4 other charities
• John Villar · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK JOHN GUSTAVUS HAMILTON-RUSSELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL EVANS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Major Charles Miller
• Major Charles Whitaker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Brettell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Kerr
• Susan Elizabeth Adams Taylor
• William James Nicholas Prideaux

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Shropshire

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Government & lottery funding

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