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Registered charity · Manchester

The National Football Museum

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2025)
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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, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.nationalfootballmuseum.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Football Museum
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.8m£4.4m
  • 2024£4.6m£3.8m
  • 2023£3.5m£3.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.6m£2.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 33%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND ITS ANTECEDENTS, IN PARTICULAR BY ESTABLISHING A MUSEUM FOR THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION AND PRESERVATION OF ITEMS OF EDUCATIONAL AND/OR HISTORIC VALUE.

Grants received

11 grants · £10,726,142 total

360Giving 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 · £10,726,142 (11 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £149,4422023-12-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £189,7002015-06-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £305,6002015-03-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £199,9002014-09-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £88,7002014-02-26
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.

15 trustees on the board

3.5y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (3)

15
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Amateur Sport 13Environment/conservation/heritage 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 26Health and social care 3Other services 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.3 in 2021

76 from 60 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1050792
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 JUN 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 AUG 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 NOV 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 OCT 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 JUL 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 APR 2018AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24 APR 2018
Companies House
Company number 03070670 · Active
Contact on the register
01616058200 · finance@nationalfootballmuseum.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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