Registered charity · Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden Museum Society Limited
- 8 trustees
- Income £136k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Keith Leslie EdenChair · since 2018
- Councillor Margaret Mary Teresa SuttonTrustee · since 2023
- Douglas David KentTrustee · since 2021
- Malcolm HeadTrustee · since 2025
- Martin Stuart TurnbullTrustee · since 2025
- MR E Anthony WatsonTrustee
- Paul Sidney SalvidgeTrustee
- Richard John PriestleyTrustee · since 2012
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.swmuseumsoc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Saffron Walden Museum Society Limited
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£136k£19k
- 2024£85k£18k
- 2023£27k£17k
Earlier years
- 2022£22k£19k
- 2021£67k£17k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND EXTEND THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HUMAN HISTORY IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES2) TO FURTHER THESE AIMS BY CARRYING ON THE MUSEUM AT SAFFRON WALDEN (FOUNDED IN 1834) AND ARRANGING LECTURES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FROM TIME TO TIME, BOTH WITHIN THE MUSEUM AND ELSEWHERE.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Keith Leslie Eden Chair since 2018
- Councillor Margaret Mary Teresa Sutton since 2023
- Douglas David Kent since 2021
- MR E Anthony Watson
- Malcolm Head since 2025
- Martin Stuart Turnbull since 2025
- Paul Sidney Salvidge
- Richard John Priestley since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Keith Leslie Eden Chair since 2018
- Richard John Priestley since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Keith Leslie Eden Chair since 2018
- Councillor Margaret Mary Teresa Sutton since 2023
- MR E Anthony Watson
- Malcolm Head since 2025
- Martin Stuart Turnbull since 2025
- Paul Sidney Salvidge
- Richard John Priestley since 2012
Portfolio (1)
- Douglas David Kent since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1123209
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) 10 JANUARY 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06469141 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01799527546 · swmuseum@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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