Registered charity · Torquay
Torbay Museums Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £484k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Torbay
- Website
- www.torquaymuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Torbay Museums Trust
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£484k£494k
- 2024£485k£344k
- 2023£259k£342k
Earlier years
- 2022£376k£400k
- 2021£402k£376k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE STUDY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMAN HISTORY, BY ACQUIRING, HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND CONSERVING, RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON NATURAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY, SOCIAL AND LOCAL HISTORY, AND THE INDUSTRIAL AND DECORATIVE ARTS, AS DEFINED BY THE MUSEUM'S ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL POLICIES, WITH FURTHER EMPHASIS BEING GIVEN TO SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF DEVON AND BY ESTABLISHING, ACQUIRING, MANAGING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LIBRARIES AND OTHER PLACES WHERE SUCH PURPOSES MAY BE ACHIEVED AND WHERE EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND ENQUIRY AND THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF RELEVANT VIEWS AND INFORMATION MAY HAPPEN
Grants received
13 grants · £2,373,527 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,229,800 (11 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £143,727 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
- Nicholas Talbot Powe DL Chair since 2024
- Alison Flora Macmillan LVO JP DL since 2025
- Chantal Geraldine Ashwell since 2025
- David Geoffrey Norman since 2023
- Prof Stephen J Rippon since 2024
- Thomas Harper Cadbury since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Nicholas Talbot Powe DL Chair since 2024
- Alison Flora Macmillan LVO JP DL since 2025
- Prof Stephen J Rippon since 2024
Portfolio (3)
- Chantal Geraldine Ashwell since 2025
- David Geoffrey Norman since 2023
- Thomas Harper Cadbury since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1025390
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/11/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21/01/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 02764633 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01803293975 · enquiries@torquaymuseum.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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