FRIENDS OF LANCASHIRE ARCHIVES

Registered charity 518611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLA

The activities of the charity are the education of the public by promotion,support,assistance and improvement of the Lancashire Record Office through the activity of the group of Friends

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND TO ADVANCE THE ARCHIVAL HERITAGE OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT COUNTY AND ELSEWHERE AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS BY THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANCASHIRE ARCHIVES

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £15,000 for the year, with total payments exceeding receipts. Despite this, unrestricted reserves stood at £47,157, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover grants and administration costs in line with their stated policy. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Walmsley
• Dr Keith Vernon
• ISMAIL SULEMAN RAVAT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jacquie Crosby
• Lesley Lovelady
• Mark Waddington
• Peter John NEWSHAM
• Susan Penelope Latimer

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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