Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

THE HALESWORTH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM 

Local History Museum
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£23,400£19,707£3,69323
31/03/22£50,257£27,091£23,16615
31/03/21*£31,541£9,301£22,24012
31/03/20£6,796£5,112£1,68410
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.halesworthmuseum.org.uk

office@halesworthmuseum.org.uk

07552508893

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 23 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/06/2019, number: 1183988
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR21: 44 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE HALESWORTH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM on 09/02/2021
Main office

HALESWORTH & DISTRICT MUSEUM
THE RAILWAY STATION
STATION ROAD
HALESWORTH
IP19 8BZ

Objectives

TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF THE MUSEUM COMPRISING THE EXISTING COLLECTION TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER EXHIBITS OR ITEMS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE COMPRISED WITHIN THE MUSEUM ASSETS AND TO PRESERVE THE SAME AS A COLLECTION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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