01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Other
- Registered
- 2 May 1986
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 October 2025 – 30 September 2026
- Latest income
- £10,535
- Latest expenditure
- £8,396
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: Palmerston Forts Society, Fort Nelson, Portsdown Hill Road, FAREHAM, PO17 6AN
Website recorded by the regulator: www.palmerstonfortssociety.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Palmerston Forts Society acts as a forum for research on the Victorian Fortifications of the Portsmouth area and the U.K. A journal is published each year. The Society arranges work parties and educational programmes of lectures, talks and visits to forts. A section of the Society is the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers who regularly perform authentic Victorian gun drills and firings.
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Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2026
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 July 2027
- Date Annual Return Received
- 6 November 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £10,535
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £8,396
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 July 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 2 November 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £8,904
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £4,834
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 July 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 22 October 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £9,712
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £5,462
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 July 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 1 December 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £8,399
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £5,976
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 July 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 26 November 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £6,645
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £4,087
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 October 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 September 2026
- Ar Due Date
- 30 July 2027
- Ar Received Date
- 6 November 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £10,535
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £8,396
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 3
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Northern Ireland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Ireland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Scotland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 304
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Human Resources
- Classification Code
- 112
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 205
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Classification Code
- 308
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- PALMERSTON FORTS SOCIETY
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 1986-05-02T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 3RD MARCH 1986 as amended on 17 Oct 2020
- Charitable Objects
- THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF FORT NELSON AND OTHER VICTORIAN FORTIFICATIONS. IN PARITCULAR BY SUPPORTING AND ASSISTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FORTIFICATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.
- Area Of Benefit
- NOT DEFINED
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Charity Other Names
- Charity Name Id
- 121635
- Charity Name Type
- Working name
- Charity Name
- THE PORTSDOWN ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS (UNIFORMED RE-ENACTMENT SECTION)
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures