Registered charity · Falmouth
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust
- 12 trustees
- Income £2.4m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Dr Patrick John NewberryChair · since 2025
- Ben Statham-WilkinsTrustee · since 2023
- Coralie GreenTrustee · since 2021
- Dame Shan MorganTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Jo EsraTrustee · since 2024
- Margaret Ellen WinserTrustee · since 2026
- Michael GriffithsTrustee · since 2020
- Michael John CarrTrustee · since 2023
- Robert Michael HolmesTrustee · since 2014
- Sam Hugh D'Aquilar HuntTrustee · since 2013
- Simon Charles TregoningTrustee
- Susan Mary BradburyTrustee · since 2023
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
- Cornwall
- Website
- www.nmmc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.4m£3.0m
- 2024£4.8m£3.0m
- 2023£2.1m£3.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.7m£2.4m
- 2021£2.0m£1.9m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE MARITIME HISTORY AND CURRENT MARITIME DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CORNWALL AND ELSEWHERE IN PARTICULAR. ALSO TO ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND PRESERVE A MUSEUM IN FALMOUTH TO DISPLAY THE NATIONAL BOAT COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM AND THE CORNISH COLLECTION EFFECTIVELY IN A WATERSIDE SITE
Grants received
17 grants · £16,836,966 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 · £15,907,500 (10 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £499,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £197,650 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £96,500
- John Ellerman Foundation · £95,172
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Dr Patrick John Newberry Chair since 2025
- Ben Statham-Wilkins since 2023
- Coralie Green since 2021
- Dame Shan Morgan since 2022
- Dr Jo Esra since 2024
- Margaret Ellen Winser since 2026
- Michael Griffiths since 2020
- Michael John Carr since 2023
- Robert Michael Holmes since 2014
- Simon Charles Tregoning
- Sam Hugh D'Aquilar Hunt since 2013
- Susan Mary Bradbury since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Michael Griffiths since 2020
- Robert Michael Holmes since 2014
- Sam Hugh D'Aquilar Hunt since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Ben Statham-Wilkins since 2023
- Coralie Green since 2021
- Dr Jo Esra since 2024
- Margaret Ellen Winser since 2026
- Michael Griffiths since 2020
- Michael John Carr since 2023
- Robert Michael Holmes since 2014
- Simon Charles Tregoning
- Sam Hugh D'Aquilar Hunt since 2013
- Susan Mary Bradbury since 2023
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Patrick John Newberry Chair since 2025
- Dame Shan Morgan since 2022
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
16.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1067884
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATED ON 8 OCTOBER 1997. AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22 JANUARY 1998. as amended on 18 Sep 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 03446298 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01326313388 · enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 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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