Registered charity · Blackburn
The Friends of Blackburn Museum and ART Gallery
- 8 trustees
- Income £4k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Blackburn With Darwen
- Website
- www.friendsofblackburnmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4k£5k
- 2024£6k£5k
- 2023£7k£4k
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£3k
- 2021£2k£755
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION SUPPORT ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BLACKBURN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
Grants received
7 grants · £1,168,456 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £618,728 (3 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £549,728 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- 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.
8 trustees on the board
- Valerie Miles Chair
- Bruce Kitchin
- Gillian Mason since 2016
- John Turkington
- Kenneth Ford since 2022
- Michael Millward since 2021
- Raymond Watton since 2018
- Robert Svarc since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Gillian Mason since 2016
- Raymond Watton since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Valerie Miles Chair
- Bruce Kitchin
- Gillian Mason since 2016
- John Turkington
- Kenneth Ford since 2022
- Raymond Watton since 2018
- Robert Svarc since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Michael Millward since 2021
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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1086901
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 13 NOVEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED ON 16 NOVEMBER 2000
- Contact on the register
- 01254262528 · chair@fobmag.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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