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Registered charity (CIO) · Southwold

Southwold Museum & Historical Society

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £107k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Suffolk
Website
southwoldmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£107k£104k
  • 2024£286k£285k
  • 2023£14k£13k
Earlier years
  • 2022£18k£16k
  • 2021£11k£9k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN LOCAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOUTHWOLD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING LECTURES, EDUCATIONAL TRIPS AND BY PROMOTING RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS DESCRIBED AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.3.2 THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OF A MUSEUM (HEREINAFTER “THE MUSEUM”) IN BUILDINGS LOCATED ON A SITE AT 9 -11 VICTORIA STREET, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK IP18 6HZ FOR THE RECEPTION AND DISPLAY OF OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY, CURIOSITY, RARITY OR LOCAL INTEREST.

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.

12 trustees on the board

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Accommodation/housing 1Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Other services 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£107k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1159790
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED ON
Contact on the register
01502 725600 · curator@southwoldmuseum.org
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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