Charity Details

Bennie Museum

SC017071Registered charity from 13 April 1989

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Charity Information:

Address 9-11 Mansefield Street
Bathgate
West Lothian

Postcode EH48 4HU

Website benniemuseum.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

The objects for which the premises have been acquired and the Management Committee and Trustees aftermentioned have been established are as follows:- To provide a meeting place for the Community Council and other Bathgate based groups of people (i i) To provide premises to be used as a museum and exhibition centre for the collection, holding and retaining of artefacts, articles, documents and others from the Bathgate and Local area which the Trustees consider will enhance the collect ion, for the benefit and edification of the people of Bathgate and District; (iii) To restore and preserve the premises in a state of good repair and condition in all time coming; (iv) To form establish and support and to aid in the formation establishment and support of any other charitable companies, institutions, associations, trusts or societies formed for objects, similar to the objects set out above;-and (v) To promote the premises as an historic building of local interest .

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

We are a small local history museum set up to collect and display artifacts unique to Bathgate area. We are open to the public six days a week Monday - Saturday and are available for student research and education visits from local schools.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Constitutional Form Date: 13 Apr 1989

Main Operating Location: West Lothian

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£10,404	£13,536	08 Nov 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£19,924	£23,011	11 Oct 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£17,926	£16,047	20 Oct 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£22,723	£23,870	26 Sept 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Ian	Brown
Stewart	Segrott
Stewart	Young
Margaret	Thornton
Marion	Baxter
David	Main
Harry	Cartmill
William	Douglas
Mary	Ferrie
Alison	Hossack
Enid	Henery
Forbes	Prentice
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