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Registered charity · Dorset

The Tank Museum Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.tankmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Tank Museum Limited
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£9.8m£9.5m
  • 2023£9.5m£8.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.1m£7.5m
  • 2021£7.2m£6.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF ARMOURED WARFARE AND TO HOLD TOGETHER THE TRADITIONS OF THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS AND THE ROYAL TANK REGIMENT AND PERPETUATE THEIR DEEDS BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC VEHICLES, DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EXHIBITS AND ARTEFACTS WHICH ARE OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE IN THE STUDY OF ARMOURED WARFARE.

Grants received

18 grants · £17,077,304 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 · £15,990,800 (10 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £611,704 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £350,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £115,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,800

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £115,0002023-03-31
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £71,2882023-03-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8002022-12-09
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £100,0002022-03-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £122,2082021-12-13
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

4.7y median 3.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12General Charitable Purposes 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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 14Health and social care 3Professional 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£10.8m 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.

3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.4 in 2021

110 from 79 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
1102661
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 FEB 2004 as amended on 25 Jan 2021
Companies House
Company number 04962619 · Active
Contact on the register
01929-405096 · office@tankmuseum.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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