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Registered charity · Dorchester

The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Dorset
Website
www.dorsetmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.1m£2.8m
  • 2023£1.2m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£2.8m
  • 2021£6.3m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THEAREAS OF ARCHAEOLOGY, THE NATURAL SCIENCES, NATURAL HISTORY, LITERATURE,MUSIC, THE FINE AND DECORATIVE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES AND LOCAL HISTORY RELATINGMORE ESPECIALLY TO THE COUNTY OF DORSET(II) THE ACQUISITION, PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, EXHIBITION AND DEVELOPMENT(AS FAR AS POSSIBLE) OF COLLECTIONS RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGY, THE NATURALSCIENCES, NATURAL HISTORY, LITERATURE, MUSIC, THE FINE AND DECORATIVE ARTS,ANTIQUITIES AND LOCAL HISTORY RELATING MORE ESPECIALLY TO THE COUNTY OFDORSET

Grants received

25 grants · £12,632,227 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 · £11,265,780 (17 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £500,000 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £489,775
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £175,000
  • The Headley Trust · £111,500 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £62,6072026-02-13
  • The Headley Trust £3,5002025-04-23
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002024-12-04
  • The Headley Trust £108,0002024-10-09
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £94,2202024-07-03
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11

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 13Professional services 4Business 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£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.7 in 2021

34 from 22 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
1062400
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/07/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/06/2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 07/12/2012 as amended on 04 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 03362107 · Active
Contact on the register
01305262735 · enquiries@dorsetmuseum.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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