Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 3

THE WISBECH AND FENLAND MUSEUM

It is a registered museum.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity uses a corporate trustee

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

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
31/03/23		£182	£303	£-120	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22		£548	£736	£-189	£2	£358	£215	3.5	6	12
31/03/21		£495	£271	£224	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/20		£186	£156	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/19		£196	£150	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/18		£125	£148	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£113	£97	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£75	£107	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£81	£100	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£108	£112	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£101	£19	£83	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£89	£111	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£98	£112	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£84	£104	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£88	£108	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£117	£155	£-38	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£97	£104	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£68	£77	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£95	£118	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£109	£120	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 61 years

www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk

info@wisbechmuseum.org.uk

01945583817

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£615,143
Wolfson Foundation	£43,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000	24/09/2021	Wisbech & Fenland Museum - roof and building repairs
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Wisbech & Fenland Museum
£43,000	10/06/2021	Roof and building repairs
DCMS - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1ES
£347,826	01/04/2021	Major roof repair; internal fabric and drainage repairs
DCMS - ALB-HISTORIC ENGLAND - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1ES
£234,880	01/04/2020	Major roof repair; internal fabric and drainage repairs
DCMS - ALB-HISTORIC ENGLAND - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1ES
£21,750	01/04/2020	Project development towards main roof and structural repairs
DCMS - ALB-HISTORIC ENGLAND - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1ES
£10,687	01/04/2020	Repairs to Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Cambridgeshire
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wisbech & Fenland Museum
£92,500	26/02/2019	Sharing Cultures – Exploring Our Museum
National Lottery Community Fund - Discovery Days - Wisbech & Fenland Museum Community Volunteer Project
£9,500	12/04/2018 12	This project will run new activities at the museum to help bring people together and to promote positive community relations.
DCMS - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Cambridgeshire
£32,063	01/04/2018	Project Development stage to identify the issues facing the Wisbech and Fenland Museum with the aim of producing a Condition Survey, carrying out analysis of historic paintwork, and producing a ....more Project Development stage to identify the issues facing the Wisbech and Fenland Museum with the aim of producing a Condition Survey, carrying out analysis of historic paintwork, and producing a specification for the first phase of work and emergency repairs to address these issues.
DCMS - Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Cambridgeshire
£8,550	01/04/2018	Repairs to Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Cambridgeshire
DCMS - Repair Grants for Heritage at Risk
£42,750	14/02/2018	Project Development stage to identify the issues facing the Wisbech and Fenland Museum with the aim of producing a Condition Survey, carrying out analysis of historic paintwork, and producing a ....more Project Development stage to identify the issues facing the Wisbech and Fenland Museum with the aim of producing a Condition Survey, carrying out analysis of historic paintwork, and producing a specification for the first phase of work and emergency repairs to address these issues.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wisbech & Fenland Museum
£94,000	06/10/2016	Wisbech and Fenland Museum: Fit for the Future

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

WISBECH AND FENLAND MUSEUM TRUSTEE COMPANY LIMITED

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/01/1963, number: 311307

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR16: 25 days late, AR14: 69 days late, AR13: 10 days late, AR08: 2 days late, AR07: 368 days late,

Main office

Wisbech Fenland Museum
Museum Square
Wisbech
PE13 1ES

Objectives

TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE BOROUGH OF WISBECH AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT.

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