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The National Motor Museum Trust Limited

The National Motor Museum Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 1107656) based in Hampshire, governed by 14 trustees. Latest income £3.6m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2024)

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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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Motor Museum Trust Limited
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.6m£3.6m
  • 2023£3.7m£3.4m
  • 2022£3.3m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.9m£3.0m
  • 2020£2.0m£2.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF MOTORING PRIMARILY IN GREAT BRITAIN BUT ALSO INTERNATIONALLY, AND IN PARTICULAR TO EXHIBIT TO THE PUBLIC HISTORIC MOTOR VEHICLES, DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTEFACTS AND OTHER EXHIBITS IN CONNECTION WITH THE HISTORY OF MOTORING INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE FORMING PART OF THE COLLECTION;2. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF MOTORING PRIMARILY IN GREAT BRITAIN BUT ALSO INTERNATIONALLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;3. TO CONSERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC HISTORIC MOTOR VEHICLES, DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTEFACTS AND OTHER EXHIBITS (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC MEDIA) CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF MOTORING PRIMARILY IN GREAT BRITAIN BUT ALSO INTERNATIONALLY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE FORMING PART OF THE COLLECTION.

Grants received

5 grants · £679,012 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 · £324,012 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £230,000
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £75,000
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £50,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £75,0002024-02-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £226,8122024-01-19
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £230,0002023-03-31
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport £50,0002017-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £97,2002014-05-23
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.

6.8y median 6y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

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 14Education/training 14Environment/conservation/heritage 13General Charitable Purposes 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 17Finance 9Professional services 7

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.6m latest income
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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2020

23 from 20 in 2020
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
1107656
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 DECEMBER 2004.
Companies House
Company number 05316070 · Active
Contact on the register
01590614650 · nmmt@beaulieu.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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