HITCHIN BRITISH SCHOOLS TRUST

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Operating The British Schools Museum, a museum of the history of elementary education within a group of Grade II and II* Listed buildings (dating 1837 to 1905). Artifacts and documents collection relating to the education and social history of childhood. Volunteering opportunities, education programmes for schools and outreach programmes. Fundraising programmes of talks, concerts and other events.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income includes £150 from 1 government grant(s)
People

10 Trustee(s)
130 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Other Charitable Activities
- Hertfordshire
Governance
- 08 April 1992: Standard registration
- 20 October 2020: Funds received from 1091056 THE HITCHIN SOCIETY
- BENCHMARK (Working name)
- BENCHMARK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOLS (Working name)
- THE BRITISH SCHOOLS MUSEUM HITCHIN (Working name)
- HITCHIN BRITISH SCHOOLS TRUST LIMITED (Previous name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- 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
- 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
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
10 Trustee(s)
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Fathima Nabeela Ameen | Trustee | 01 July 2024 |
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Francis Hon | Trustee | 01 November 2023 |
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Douglas Black | Trustee | 01 November 2023 |
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Wendy Watson | Trustee | 15 June 2022 |
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Abigail Kikuchi | Trustee | 15 June 2022 |
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Dr Zibiah Loakthar | Trustee | 15 June 2022 |
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Esther Green | Trustee | 15 June 2022 |
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Lucy Margaret Unger | Trustee | 10 December 2020 |
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Lesley Saunders | Trustee | 05 November 2020 |
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Richard John Atterton | Trustee | 09 July 2020 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £140.87k | £227.26k | £125.91k | £157.84k | £251.19k | |
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Total expenditure | £153.32k | £120.78k | £102.55k | £153.89k | £166.63k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £46.45k | £62.38k | £1.60k | £150 |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 16 December 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 16 December 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 16 November 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 16 November 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 20 January 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 20 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 15 January 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 15 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 NOVEMBER 1991 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 26 MARCH 1992, 2 NOVEMBER 2003, 6 NOVEMBER 2005 AND 10 MARCH 2008 as amended on 11 Mar 2017
Charitable objects
(I) TO PRESERVE A HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT GROUP OF BUILDINGS IN HITCHIN, HERTFORDSHIRE, KNOWN AS THE BRITISH SCHOOLS (II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF SCHOOLING BY: (A) PRESERVING AND ENHANCING THE COLLECTION OF ARTEFACTS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF CHILDREN (B) PRESENTING THESE BUILDINGS AND COLLECTION AS A MUSEUM OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD (C) DELIVERING A LIVING EXPERIENCE OF HISTORIC SCHOOLDAYS TO ALL
Area of benefit
HITCHIN
Contact information
- Address:
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42 Queen Street
Hitchin
SG4 9TS
- Phone:
- 01462429240
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