01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- New
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 13 August 2025
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- Not supplied – Not supplied
- Latest income
- Not supplied
- Latest expenditure
- Not supplied
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: Charles Burrell Museum, Minstergate, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1BN
Website recorded by the regulator: charlesburrellmuseum.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Museum works to promote and protect the heritage legacy of Charles Burrell and Sons by preserving and demonstrating the working engines, maintaining the fabric and contents of their buildings and educating current and future generations about how they connected Thetford with the wider industrial community. We are run solely by volunteers who welcome over 4000 visitors a year Apr to Oct
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Norfolk
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 109
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- CHARLES BURRELL MUSEUM CIO
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2025-08-13T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Aug 2025
- Charitable Objects
- THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN THETFORD FOR THE EXHIBITION OF STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER MACHINES BUILT BY CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS LIMITED AND MATERIALS RELATING THERETO AND MAKING THE COLLECTION AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: • HOLDING A COLLECTION OF HERITAGE ASSETS PRIMARILY RELATED TO THIS THEME; • PROTECTING THOSE HERITAGE ASSETS FOR THE LONG TERM, DISTINCT FROM CORPORATE OPERATIONAL ASSETS; • MANAGING THOSE HERITAGE ASSETS IN LINE WITH MUSEUM SECTOR STANDARDS; • THE PROVISION OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC; • THE PROVISION OF EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND OTHER EVENTS; AND • RESEARCHING, PROMOTING AND PUBLISHING RELATED STUDIES.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN THETFORD FOR THE EXHIBITION OF STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER MACHINES BUILT BY CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS LIMITED AND MATERIALS RELATING THERETO AND MAKING THE COLLECTION AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: • HOLDING A COLLECTION OF HERITAGE ASSETS PRIMARILY RELATED TO THIS THEME; • PROTECTING THOSE HERITAGE ASSETS FOR THE LONG TERM, DISTINCT FROM CORPORATE OPERATIONAL ASSETS; • MANAGING THOSE HERITAGE ASSETS IN LINE WITH MUSEUM SECTOR STANDARDS; • THE PROVISION OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC; • THE PROVISION OF EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND OTHER EVENTS; AND • RESEARCHING, PROMOTING AND PUBLISHING RELATED STUDIES.
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
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- Internal risk management policy and procedures
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- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
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- Safeguarding policy and procedures
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- Conflicting interests
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- Risk management
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- Complaints policy and procedures
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- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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- Complaints handling
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- Social media policy and procedures