01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Other
- Registered
- 3 September 2003
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 May 2024 – 30 April 2025
- Latest income
- £4,825
- Latest expenditure
- £6,575
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: Birchington Heritage Museum, Birchington Library, 17 Alpha Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9EG
Website recorded by the regulator: www.birchingtonheritage.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Charity's work includes the preservation of material of historical interest in the Birchington area, providing information evenings, guided walks, written guides on the history of the local area. It also provides the accommodation, maintenance and extension of the archive collection already held.
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Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 18 July 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £4,825
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £6,575
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 20 November 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £6,123
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £6,084
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 29 February 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 9 January 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £4,463
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £5,162
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 8 July 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £4,631
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £5,100
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2020
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2021
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2022
- Date Annual Return Received
- 7 July 2021
- Total Gross Income
- £2,559
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £972
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Kent
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 201
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Children/young People
- Classification Code
- 308
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 202
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Elderly/old People
- Classification Code
- 112
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- BIRCHINGTON HERITAGE TRUST
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 2003-09-03T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 20 SEPTEMBER 2002 AS AMENDED 7 AUGUST 2003. as amended on 30 May 2019 as amended on 26 Jun 2025 as amended on 26 Jun 2025
- Charitable Objects
- 3: OBJECTSThe Trust’s objects (‘the objects’) are:a) To advance the education of the public in the local history of the civil parishes of Birchington and Acol in the County of Kent, in particular, but not exclusively, by • collecting, storing and displaying artefacts and associated evidence relating to the history of these parishes• managing premises for use as a museum, providing physical and digital access to the collections and artefacts as may be reasonably practicable• promoting and encouraging access for all to the museum and its collection, including through publications and eventsb) To promote research into the history of the parishes at clause 3(a) and disseminate information to members of the Trust and the general public.c) To promote volunteering to support the objects set out in clauses (a) and (b) above.
- Area Of Benefit
- BIRCHINGTON AND ACOL
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Complaints handling