The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The British Music Experience

Registered charity 1125752 Registered since 2008

Operates: Liverpool City

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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.

9.4y median 10y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

5
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 7Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Religious Activities 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 42Education 6Other services 6

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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£958k 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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.0 in 2021

20 from 19 in 2022
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.britishmusicexperience.com
Emailinfo@britishmusicexperience.com
Phone0151 5190915
AddressThe British Music Experience, Ground Floor, Cunard Building, Liverpool, L3 1DS

Finances

£957,586 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£483,626£544,945
2022£723,384£689,256
2023£775,014£865,469
2024£984,180£963,165
2025£957,586£886,656

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

'3.1 THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THEPUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, SCIENCE AND CULTURE OF BRITISH POPULAR MUSIC FROM ITSORIGINS TO THE PRESENT DAY BY THE:3.1.1 PRESENTATION OF INTERACTIVE LEARNING DISPLAYS AND EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICEVENTS AND CONCERTS;3.1.2 ACQUISITION (WHETHER ON LOAN, OR LEASE, OR BY WAY OF GIFT OR PURCHASE ORRECOVERY OR OTHERWISE), PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND EXHIBITION OFANY ARTISTIC WORKS, INSTRUMENTS, PAPERS, INTERVIEWS OR ARTEFACTS; AND3.1.3 PROVISION OF RESEARCH, SOUND RECORDING, PERFORMANCE AND ARCHIVINGFACILITIES.3.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THEDIRECTORS SHALL DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 SEPTEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 3 SEPTEMBER 2008. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 OCTOBER 2008. as amended on 19 Oct 2015

Trustees (7)

7trustees
64median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The British Music Experience · 06364836 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 07/09/2007

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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