THE PENDON MUSEUM TRUST LTD

Registered charity 313614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q15265866 · Wikipedia · also known as THE PENDON MUSEUM TRUST

The principal activity is the construction and operation of an exhibition of landscape, model building and railways at Long Wittenham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Objects

(1)TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE AND ALSO FOR THE EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL RELICS AND RECORDS OF A SIMILAR NATURE AND TO OPEN THE SAME FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION ON SUCH TERMS AS MAY SEEM EXPEDIENT. (2) TO FORM A COLLECTION OF MODELS RELICS AND RECORDS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE FOR EXHIBITION IN SUCH MUSEUM. (3) TO PROVIDE FOR THE DELIVERY AND HOLDING OF LECTURES CLASSES AND CONFERENCES CALCULATED TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £17,385 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to lower legacy income and increased project expenditure. Despite this, the charity maintains strong unrestricted reserves of £120,303, which fall below the trustees' stated policy target of £100,000 to £150,000. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00682542
• Trading subsidiary: PENDON MUSEUM SALES LIMITED Companies House 01251264

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THOMAS, David Ian — director, appointed 04/03/2025on trustee list
• OWEN, Philip James Lawrence — director, appointed 02/05/2023on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Stuart — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
• SAUNDERS, Angharad Sarah Ayrton, Dr — director, appointed 09/05/2022on trustee list
• GREEN, Oliver Anthony — director, appointed 15/02/2021on trustee list
• SAUNDERS, Angharad Sarah Ayrton, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/07/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Malcolm James Smithchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher John Webber
• David Thomas
• Dr Angharad Sarah Ayrton Saunders · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Green
• PETER JOHN WILTSHIRE
• Philip James Owen
• Stuart Johnson

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED.

• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION income £26k
• THE FARMLAND MUSEUM income £159k
• ARUNDEL MUSEUM SOCIETY income £64k
• CONGLETON MUSEUM TRUST income £30k
• TRENT PARK MUSEUM TRUST income £282k

Side by side with its peers

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