LANCASHIRE MINING MUSEUM CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION

Registered charity 513511 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANCASHIRE MINING MUSEUM LIMITED, THE RED ROSE STEAM SOCIETY LIMITED

The Red Rose Steam Society Ltd. now trading as the Lancashire Mining Museum is a registered charity and a registered museum. It has the last mining headgear in the Lancashire Coalfield ands the largest winding engine in Europe - both are on the at risk register of listed buildings.. The Society continues to foster the love of industrial heritage particularly amongst young people

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of -£687 and a net deficit after tax of -£10,577 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £134,930 to £124,353. Despite the deficit, the trustees report that the overall turnover grew to £100,438 and the museum has secured significant grant funding for future development projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan John Wossick
• Colin Peter Savage
• Kelly Ann Farren
• Leslie Leggett
• Nicola Jean Vivash
• Peter Alan Rowlinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosemary Gaye Mockridge
• Susan Kedward
• Thomas Eric Hampson

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL COAL MINING MUSEUM FOR ENGLAND TRUST LTD.

• NATIONAL COAL MINING MUSEUM FOR ENGLAND TRUST LTD income £4.4m
• COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF LANCASHIRE income £738k
• NORTHUMBERLAND AGED MINEWORKERS' HOMES ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• KEMPTON GREAT ENGINES TRUST LIMITED income £154k
• MUSEUM OF POWER income £429k
• CROMFORD STEAM RALLY SOCIETY income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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