Registered charity · London
The British Museum Trust Limited
- 5 trustees
- Income £1k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Linked company
- The British Museum Trust Limited
- Registered
- 2011
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1k£1.2m
- 2024£4.5m£1.1m
- 2023£7.5m£1.1m
Earlier years
- 2022£158£5.0m
- 2021£721£7.3m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE, IN A MANNER IN WHICH THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY SEE FIT, THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (AS MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME); AND TO ADVANCE CULTURE, HERITAGE, SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN ANY MANNER INCIDENTAL, CONDUCIVE TO OR COMPATIBLE WITH THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Grants received
8 grants · £5,135,400 total360Giving 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 Headley Trust · £5,037,900 (2 grants)
- John Lyon's Charity · £81,000
- CHK Foundation · £14,500 (4 grants)
- Woodward Charitable Trust · £2,000
Most recent
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Lord Powell of Bayswater Chair since 2011
- Dame Elizabeth Corley since 2024
- David Ronald Norgrove since 2015
- Emeritus Professor Clive Stephen Gamble since 2021
- Jack Ryan since 2013
Trustees past 6 years
- Lord Powell of Bayswater Chair since 2011
- David Ronald Norgrove since 2015
- Jack Ryan since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Dame Elizabeth Corley since 2024
- David Ronald Norgrove since 2015
- Emeritus Professor Clive Stephen Gamble since 2021
- Jack Ryan since 2013
Portfolio (1)
- Lord Powell of Bayswater Chair since 2011
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1140844
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/02/2011 as amended on 18 Oct 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 07520030 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02073238000 · tappleyard@britishmuseum.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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