THE COOK MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 517546 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust was formed by Deed of Trust dated 16 April 1986 with the object of establishing a museum in Whitby displaying items relating to the life and achievements of Captain James Cook.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND PRESERVING A MUSEUM IN JOHN WALKER'S HOUSE GRAPE LANE, WHITBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE DEVOTED TO THE DISPLAY OF ITEMS RELATING TO LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

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 a net deficit of £9,475 for the year, with total income falling to £212,426 from £317,689 in the prior year. However, the trustees report that free reserves stood at £234,151, which they consider sufficient to cover approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure, and the overall fund balance remained healthy at £2,261,187.

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 handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MR R KORNICKIchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Rodwell-Cox · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Adrian Gordon Latimer
• LADY PERONEL KATHERINE CRUZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• MISS B WORONCOW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Holland
• Prof. Simon Ditchfield

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHITBY LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

• WHITBY LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY income £379k
• WHITBY AREA DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £231k
• SENHOUSE MUSEUM TRUST income £131k
• THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £954k
• GREAT YARMOUTH PRESERVATION TRUST income £486k
• THE SPODE MUSEUM TRUST income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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