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The Somerset Military Museum Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £4k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Somerset
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4k£2k
  • 2024£5k£2k
  • 2023£4k£3k
Earlier years
  • 2022£5k£3k
  • 2021£3k£3k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE MILITARY EFFICIENCY BY (A) THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE COLLECTION IN A MUSEUM OR MUSEUMS OR SUCH OTHER PUBLIC PLACE OR PLACES WHICH, IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES, HAVE SUFFICIENT LINKS TO THE REGIMENT OR THE FORMER REGIMENTS; AND (B) PERPETUATING THE HISTORY AND MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE FORMER REGIMENTS; AND (C) ENCOURAGING RECRUITMENT TO THE REGIMENT, AND (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY (A) AND (B) AFORESAID

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

5.8y median 6.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (3)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5Amateur Sport 1Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£5k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1064932
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 23 SEPTEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 2 DECEMBER 1998, 8 APRIL 2003 AND 28 JULY 2004 AND 19 DECEMBER 2006 as amended on 21 Mar 2019
Contact on the register
01823 333434 · aotaunton@the-rifles.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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