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Birmingham Museums Trust

Birmingham Museums Trust is a registered charity (number 1147014) based in Birmingham, governed by 7 trustees. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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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
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birmingham Museums Trust
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£12m
  • 2024£13m£12m
  • 2023£11m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£12m
  • 2021£10m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 28% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND LIBRARIES IN BIRMINGHAM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND RELATED PROGRAMMES OF OUTREACH AND RESEARCH, FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE ARTS, HISTORY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

Grants received

57 grants · £21,808,263 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 · £14,825,882 (44 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £5,818,402 (6 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £790,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £172,500
  • The Headley Trust · £94,479

Most recent

  • The Headley Trust £94,4792025-01-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,8362023-09-28
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £172,5002023-03-31
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £46,4902022-05-31
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,026,1072021-12-13
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.

7 trustees on the board

1.6y median 0y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

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 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 6Business services 4Finance 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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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£12.6m 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.5 in 2021

161 from 180 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.
41%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1147014
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/08/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12/07/2012
Companies House
Company number 07737797 · Active
Contact on the register
01213488000 · hello@birminghammuseums.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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