NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 311116 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The society provides lectures, excursions, visits, walks and study days, which are open to the public. There is also a library which is open to members and others by appointment, and a journal, which is distributed to members and libraries. The society also offers research grants and book grants to students of archaeology or history, and grant assistance for archaeological projects.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF THE SCIENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND THE CITY OF NORWICH.

Area of benefit: NORFOLK AND THE CITY OF NORWICH

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

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Registered contact address: South Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity entered its 180th anniversary year in a strong financial position with unrestricted funds of £785,382. The Trustees are satisfied that the Society has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future, having reviewed its financial position, cash resources, and investment portfolio. Total income for the year was £44,488, resulting in an operating surplus before investment gains of £2,678.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 22/05/2026, 203 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/07/2024, 262 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Heather Wallischair
• Andrew Rogerson · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR VICTOR MORGAN
• Dr ANDREW HUTCHESON
• Dr Clare Haynes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Paul Sylvan Spoerry
• Karen Ann Watling · trustee of 1 other charity
• MS SOPHIE CABOT · trustee of 1 other charity
• TREVOR NUTHALL
• Timothy John Pestel

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST DORSET ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

• EAST DORSET ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY income £30k
• THE NORFOLK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST income £171k
• NORFOLK AND NORWICH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY income £52k
• SOUTHAMPTON ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY income £7k
• LONDON AND MIDDLESEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £77k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH WEST NORFOLK income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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