OCTAVIA HILL BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM TRUST
Charity number: 1018947
Charity reporting is up to date (2 days late)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Trust owns and maintains Octavia Hill's Birthplace House in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, a Grade II* Listed Georgian Building which contains exhibits, displays and archives of the life and work of Octavia Hill (1838 - 1912). Within the Birthplace House there are two cottages containing three Incubator Office Units, a Tearoom, and Shop which are leased to and operated by Octavia Hill Trading Ltd.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 05 April 2024
Total income: £32,751
Total expenditure: £27,514
People
7 Trustee(s)
20 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
No information available
Trading
One or more trustees are also directors of the subsidiaries
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Cambridgeshire
Governance
Registration history:
- 19 March 1993: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
No other names
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- 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
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
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
7 Trustee(s)
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| Colonel Mark Knight MBE DL | Chair | 11 July 2022 |
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| David Sean Denson | Trustee | 08 April 2024 |
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| David Edwin Crouch | Trustee | 01 October 2022 |
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| Ian Groome | Trustee | 26 July 2018 |
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| Pamela Margaret Williams | Trustee | 09 July 2015 |
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| SHEILA MARY JACKMAN MBE | Trustee |
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| Richard Symond Gyles Barnwell | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 05/04/2020 | 05/04/2021 | 05/04/2022 | 05/04/2023 | 05/04/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £12.52k | £57.56k | £5.86k | £14.42k | £32.75k | |
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Total expenditure | £61.14k | £70.89k | £81.52k | £88.68k | £27.51k | |
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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 | £25.00k | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 05 April 2024 | 07 February 2025 | 2 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2024 | 07 February 2025 | 2 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2023 | 05 February 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2023 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 05 April 2022 | 14 March 2023 | 37 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2022 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 05 April 2021 | 23 December 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2021 | 23 December 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2020 | 06 May 2021 | 90 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2020 | Not Required |