Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 6
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

THAXTED WINDMILL TRUST CIO 

The Trust's purpose is to promote for the benefit of the public the restoration, preservation and maintenance of John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted. This also includes the care of the collections of Agricultural, Social and Natural History housed within the Windmill Museum.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • This charity appears to be dormant

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£16£20£-4n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/21£29£24£6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20?£18£15£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£2£4£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£3£5£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£18£13£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£6£9£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£2£9£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£6£4£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£2£9£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£6£4£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£7£5£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£7£4£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£18£13£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£170£187£-16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 2 years

m.rickards@btinternet.com

01371830057

Charity Commission for England and Wales
This Charity appears to be dormant
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Essex,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thaxted Windmill
£116,902 30/06/2022
Thaxted Windmill - Conserved for its Community
DCMS - Thaxted Windmill, 19 Bolford St, Thaxted, Dunmow
£16,180 01/04/2022
Project development work to inform future scheme of urgent repairs at Thaxted Windmill
DCMS - John Webb's Windmill, Fishmarket Street, Thaxted, Essex, CM6 2PG
£9,816 01/04/2021
The grant is being used to repair and conserve the John Webb's windmill at Thaxted, Essex
DCMS - ALB-HISTORIC ENGLAND - John Webb's Windmill, Fishmarket Street, Thaxted, Essex, CM6 2PG
£16,633 01/04/2020
Repair to Windmill. The wider aim of the scheme is: The scheme is intended to reduce the risk faced by some of the most significant historic sites in England, as shown on the Heritage at Risk ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/07/2022, number: 1199545
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THAXTED WINDMILL on 29/11/2023
Main office

14-16 Bolford Street
Thaxted
DUNMOW
CM6 2PY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE RESTORATION, PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THAXTED WINDMILL, ASSOCIATED AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS AND ITEMS OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL HISTORY AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAID WINDMILL AND THE CONTENTS HELD WITHIN.”

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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