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Registered charity · Derby

Derby Museums

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Derby City
Website
www.derbymuseums.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Derby Museums
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£4.9m
  • 2024£3.3m£4.8m
  • 2023£2.9m£4.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.1m£6.7m
  • 2021£7.2m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND/OR ART GALLERY;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE BY THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OF HISTORIC AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE;3) WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE ABOVE, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF DERBY'S ENGINEERING AND CREATIVE HERITAGE;4) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;5) PURSUE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DETERMINE.

Grants received

34 grants · £21,212,571 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 · £15,734,918 (14 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,915,189 (9 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £803,139 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £491,088 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £125,000

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.2y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

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 4Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 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 17Education 3Professional services 2

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£4.2m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

145 from 71 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
1149710
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/04/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 07/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 JAN 2017 as amended on 29 Sep 2020
Companies House
Company number 08036113 · Active
Contact on the register
01332641901 · info@derbymuseums.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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