GLOUCESTERSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Registered charity 296959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GFHS

To promote and encourage the public study of British family history, genealogy, heraldry and local history with particular reference to Gloucestershire, and the preservation, security and accessibility of archived material.

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC STUDY OF BRITISH FAMILY HISTORY, GENEALOGY, HERALDRY AND LCOAL HISTORY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE. (II) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION, SECURITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £88,713.39, which the Trustees consider adequate to meet future obligations such as rent, equipment renewal, and preservation projects. The charity reported a small surplus of £1,473.67 for the year, with total incoming resources of £25,815.27 against total resources expended of £24,341.60. The Trustees note that while funds are healthy, membership is declining long-term, prompting the reinvestment of surplus funds into a bank bond.

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 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Katharyn Bennettchair
• Andrew Stevens
• Christopher Paul Evans
• DAVID ANTHONY HOWELLS
• DAVID POOLE
• David Frederick Carlile
• Elaine Patricia Schollar
• Elizabeth Jack
• Jane Katherine Hough
• Judith Victoria Thorpe
• Tracy Louisa Barnett

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).