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Registered charity · London

Science Museum Foundation

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Throughout England And Wales
Linked company
Science Museum Foundation
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£3.7m
  • 2024£931k£8.4m
  • 2023£5.9m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£295k£60k
  • 2021£604k£139k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 92%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO:4.1. ADVANCE THE PUBLIC’S KNOWLEDGE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE NMSI COLLECTIONS AND THEIR PRESERVATION;4.2. ADVANCE THE PUBLIC’S KNOWLEDGE AND ENJOYMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY MEANS OF THE NMSI COLLECTIONS; 4.3. PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES, INSTRUCTION AND INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE NMSI COLLECTIONS; 4.4. SUPPORT THE CARE, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE NMSI COLLECTIONS AND RELATED RESEARCH; 4.5. SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION OF THE NMSI COLLECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC AND THE MAKING OF THE NMSI COLLECTIONS AVAILABLE TO PERSONS SEEKING TO INSPECT THEM IN CONNECTION WITH STUDY OR RESEARCH; AND4.6. TO SUPPORT THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OF THE PURPOSES OF NMSI AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE NMSI OR ANY OTHER ORGANISATION (WHETHER ASSOCIATED WITH NMSI OR OTHERWISE) TO UNDERTAKE ACTIVITIES THAT ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Grants received

2 grants · £140,000 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.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 10Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Finance 10Arts and leisure 8Health and social care 3

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£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

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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
1148691
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 JUL 2012
Companies House
Company number 08156772 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7942 4115 · financeoperations@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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