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Halsway Manor Society Limited

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
247230
Status
Registered
Registered
March 8, 1966
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
National

Address

Address
Halsway Manor
Crowcombe
Taunton
Somerset
TA4 4BD

Activities

To promote and support the practice of the traditional folk arts, especially as practised in England. This includes traditional dance, music, song, folklore, storytelling, arts, and crafts. To conserve, maintain and develop the Halsway Manor as a hub for these activities.

Objects: 4.1 The Society is established for the following objects: -4.1.1 to advance education and inform and promote participation in all aspects of the folk heritage, especially as found in England including; traditional folk music, dances, songs, stories, folklore, drama, choirs and orchestras, visual arts, crafts, traditional games and other related traditional and cultural activities. To preserve and encourage the practice of them in their traditional forms and to use and maintain Halsway Manor as a hub for these activities, and to provide residential board and accommodation and refreshment facilities in connection therewith.4.1.2 to promote historical research into 4.1.1 and make available to the public the results of such research4.1.3 to the extent that the income and property of the Halsway Manor Society Ltd cannot be used for the above objects they shall be used for the advancement of the education of the public (but so that nothing hereinafter contained shall be deemed to empower the Society to pursue any ancillary object which is not exclusively charitable).4.2 To further these objects the Society will: 4.2.1 promote and co-operate in demonstrations, festivals and other like performances of folk dances, songs, folk traditions, folklore, tales and drama whether held in England or not.4.2.2 prepare and publish, issue and make use of, for sale, performance or otherwise, such books, journals, records, reports, and other literature, and means and apparatus for the visual and mechanical reproduction of folk dances, songs, folk traditions, folklore, and music as may seem desirable to further the education of the public in these arts.4.2.3 To make, obtain and distribute, by sale or otherwise, instruments and other articles of whatever description, requisite for the performance or practice of folk dances, songs, folk traditions, folklore, and music in accordance with the above objects. 4.2.4 solicit and receive subscriptions and gifts of all kinds, whether absolute or conditional for the purposes of the Society.4.2.5 subject to these articles, take and hold any buildings and lands, and property of any kind, whether absolutely or on trust and to maintain it and equip it for use, including, in particular, the property known as Halsway Manor, Crowcombe, Somerset4.2.6 borrow money and charge the whole or any part of the property belonging to the Society as security for repayment or as security for a grant or the discharge of an obligation.4.2.7 do all or any such lawful things as may be conducive or incidental to the attainment of the Objects.

Classification

How
Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Human Resources, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services
What
Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Who
The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 £1,379,491 £1,091,760 £2,284,164 24
March 31, 2024 £1,188,196 £1,074,061 £1,996,433 26
March 31, 2023 £1,178,950 £914,199 £1,882,298 23
March 31, 2022 £868,943 £809,013 £1,612,271 24
March 31, 2021 £562,988 £524,973 £1,552,341 24

Trustees

Name Appointed
Stephen Charles Earwicker (Chair) Oct. 16, 2017
Anthony Michael Jon Millyard Oct. 15, 2018
Deborah Wood Nov. 13, 2022
Fiona Coope Nov. 12, 2023
James Robertson Nov. 14, 2020
Julie Williams Oct. 6, 2013
Russ Palmer Sept. 17, 2015