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Registered charity · London

London Transport Museum Limited

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £20m (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
Throughout London
Website
www.ltmuseum.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
London Transport Museum Limited
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£20m£22m
  • 2024£20m£19m
  • 2023£17m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£15m
  • 2021£12m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government contracts 7% · Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE THE HERITAGE OF TRANSPORT IN LONDON AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANSPORT IN LONDON THROUGH THE PROVISION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A TRANSPORT MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF LONDON, PAST. PRESENT AND FUTURE

Grants received

23 grants · £16,437,131 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 · £14,154,542 (11 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,565,757 (6 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £325,582 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £311,250 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £75,000

Most recent

  • The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art £5,0002025-11-25
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £70,4082023-09-27
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £72,0002023-03-31
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £242,7422023-03-24
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £24,8922022-12-12
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.

13 trustees on the board

4.7y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

13
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 13Education/training 13Environment/conservation/heritage 13

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Transport 48Arts and leisure 16Business services 11

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£19.9m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.4 in 2021

172 from 106 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
1123122
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES (INCORPORATED) 6 FEBRUARY 2008
Companies House
Company number 06495761 · Active
Contact on the register
0343 222 5000 · enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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