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Registered charity · York

York Museum & Gallery Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £9.2m (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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
North Yorkshire, City Of York
Website
www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
York Museums and Gallery Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.2m£10m
  • 2024£7.5m£8.4m
  • 2023£7.1m£8.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.6m£7.2m
  • 2021£4.8m£6.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF SCHOLARSHIP, SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY, EDUCATION AND ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CITIZENS OF YORK AND OF THE PUBLIC IN YORKSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELDS OF ANTIQUITIES, SOCIAL HISTORY, PAINTING, THE DECORATIVE ARTS AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES; AND/OR2) TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CITIZENS OF YORK AND VISITORS TO THE CITY TO LEARN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ITS REGION IN TERMS OF ITS PEOPLE, CULTURE AND HISTORY TOGETHER WITH ITS SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; AND/OR3) THE MAINTENANCE FOR THESE PURPOSES AND THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM AND GARDENS, THE CASTLE MUSEUM, THE YORK CITY GALLERY, ST MARY'S CHURCH AND ANY OTHER PREMISES TOGETHER WITH THE CARE, ENHANCEMENT (BY ACQUISITION OR OTHER MEANS), MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF THE COLLECTIONS WITHIN THESE INSTITUTIONS AND DISPLAY OF COLLECTIONS FROM ANY OTHER BODY WHICH WILL PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY; AND/OR4) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Grants received

31 grants · £11,648,226 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £3,673,334 (5 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,198,333 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,605,326 (9 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £1,971,228 (5 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £80,400

Most recent

  • The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art £5,0002025-11-25
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £135,0502025-05-08
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £120,0002025-03-19
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £242,0382024-01-29
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £702,8512023-11-06
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

4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

12
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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12

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 18Education 7Health and social care 6

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£9.2m 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.1 in 2021

151 from 149 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
1092466
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 FEBRUARY 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30 MAY 2002.
Companies House
Company number 04381647 · Active
Contact on the register
01904687687 · accounts@ymt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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