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Annual accounts for the Lewes Public Library and Museum Charitable Trust

Committee report · Cabinet · Tue 16 Dec 2025 · East Sussex County Council

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The minutes record: Noted. “RESOLVED to: 1) note the final accounts for 2024/25 for the Lewes Public Library and Museum Charitable Trust; and 2) note that there are no issues that require any further action by the County Council as the Corporate Trustee. Reason 46.3 The report fulfils the requirement for the annual accounts for the Lewes Public Library and Museum Charitable Trust to be submitted to the Cabinet. </AI11> <AI12> 47.” minutes ↗

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Cabinet is recommended to note the final accounts for 2024/25 and to note that no further action is needed from the County Council as the Corporate Trustee. p5p6p7

The Charity's property is Lewes Library at Styles Field, used as a public library and museum. p9p10

The annual return for 2024/25 has been completed by the Council's Finance Manager and submitted to the Charity Commission. p15

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  • p5RECOMMENDATIONS : Cabinet is recommended to:
  • p61) Note the final accounts for 2024/25 for the Lewes Public Library and Museum Charitable Trust; and
  • p72) Note that there are no issues that require any further action by the County Council as the Corporate Trustee.
  • p91.2 In 2008 the Council signed a Declaration of Trust after detailed consultation with the Charity Commission regarding the disposal of the Original Library. By the 2008 Declaration, the Council confirmed the current name of the Charity as the Lewes Public Library and Museum. East Sussex County Council also declared that the current Lewes Library at Styles Field would be held on trust and used for the Charity in place of the Original Library.
  • p101.3 The charitable use of the Library is: “use as a public library and museum for the safe custody exhibition and study of objects of educational artistic or scientific interest and such other collections and objects of a similar nature as the ...council may think fit”; constituting the objects of the Charity.
  • p152 2024/25 Accounts 2.1 The annual return for Lewes Public Library and Museum Charitable Trust has been completed by the Council’s Finance Manager and been submitted to the Charity Commission.

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