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Registered charity · East Sussex

The Sussex Archaeological Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
East Sussex, West Sussex
Website
www.sussexpast.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sussex Archaeological Society
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.5m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.6m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£1.9m
  • 2021£2.6m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 0%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES (‘OBJECTS’):1. TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY BY ENCOURAGING ALL PEOPLE FROM LOCAL AND WIDER COMMUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN, ENGAGE, STUDY AND RESEARCH THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF EAST AND WEST SUSSEX; AND/OR2. TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN MUSEUMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY MANAGING, MAINTAINING, LEASING, ACCEPTING AS A GIFT OR LEGACY AND MAKING ACCESSIBLE MUSEUMS AND HISTORIC SITES, MONUMENTS, COLLECTIONS AND PROPERTIES IN THE COUNTIES OF EAST AND WEST SUSSEX; AND/OR3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADVANCING LIFE-LONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY, BOTH AT THE SOCIETY’S PROPERTIES AND ELSEWHERE.

Grants received

20 grants · £5,393,313 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,404,593 (14 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £821,300 (2 grants)
  • Monument Trust · £150,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,920 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £7,500

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,9932023-09-06
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £323,8002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £497,5002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002020-08-10
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £88,5002018-02-13
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.

9 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

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 13Other services 4Business services 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.0 in 2021

60 from 145 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
207037
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 JANUARY 1925 AND AMENDED 6 NOVEMBER 1976 AS AMENDED ON 23 JUN 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03 NOV 2022
Companies House
Company number 00202795 · Active
Contact on the register
01273486290 · enquiries@sussexpast.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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