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Registered charity · County Durham

Beamish Museum

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)
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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
Durham
Website
www.beamish.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Beamish Museum
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£18m
  • 2024£16m£18m
  • 2023£13m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£11m
  • 2021£11m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY STUDYING, COLLECTING, PRESERVING, INTERPRETING AND EXHIBITING TO THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MACHINERY, OBJECTS AND INFORMATION ILLUSTRATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE AND WAY OF LIFE IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND3.2 TO MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP THE NORTH OF ENGLAND OPEN AIR MUSEUM AT BEAMISH IN COUNTY DURHAM.

Grants received

31 grants · £19,177,753 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 · £15,109,537 (12 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £2,932,376 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £908,241 (4 grants)
  • Point North · £119,599 (7 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £78,000

Most recent

  • Point North £2502025-01-29
  • Point North £19,9442024-05-02
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £12,4102024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £6,2052024-01-22
  • Point North £10,0002022-12-20
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.

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 15Business services 1Health and social care 1

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£19.1m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

504 from 346 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
1122366
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/03/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/08/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/03/2014 as amended on 22 Oct 2020
Companies House
Company number 05751540 · Active
Contact on the register
01913704000 · museum@beamish.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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