Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

BERWICK BARRACKS HERITAGE TRUST

The charity's principal purpose is the preservation and promotion of Berwick Barracks as a centre celebrating the history and heritage of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its surrounding area and as a focus for artistic and cultural activities. The current focus of the charity is on promoting and funding plans for the Barracks' (re)development to this end.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely male?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£9£0£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£1£12£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£9£18£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£9£0£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£45£0£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

bbht.co.uk

philip.mawer@bbht.co.uk

01289330955

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Northumberland,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Berwick Barracks Heritage Trust
£5,000 17/06/2021
The cost of the production of two publications about Berwick and Northumberland

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • JONATHAN MARK LANG Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Partner Kaineslang
  • JOHN MARK ELLIOTT Appointed: 2022
  • SIR PHILIP JOHN COURTNEY MAWER DLITT, LLD (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • SCOTT RATHMAN SHERRARD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • STUART MARTIN BANKIER Appointed: 2021
  • TREVOR GILES MITCHELL Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/05/2017, number: 1173070
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

C/O BERWICK COMMUNITY TRUST
WILLIAM ELDER BUILDING
56-58 CASTLEGATE
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED
NORTHUMBERLAND
TD15 1JT

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, EDUCATION AND HERITAGE, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF BERWICK BARRACKS AS A CENTRE CELEBRATING THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF BERWICK-UPON-TWEED AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA AND AS A FOCUS FOR ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, AND THROUGH SUCH OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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