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Registered charity (CIO) · Barnsley

Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £127k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Barnsley
Website
www.bmht.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£127k£141k
  • 2024£208k£282k
  • 2023£265k£147k
Earlier years
  • 2022£234k£130k
  • 2021£192k£148k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE AND ENGAGE WITH MUSEUMS AND RELATED SERVICES PARTICULARLY THOSE LOCATED WITHIN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA;(2) THE PROMOTION OF ART, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS IN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA SUCH AS EXPERIENCE BARNSLEY, CANNON HALL MUSEUM PARK AND GARDENS, WORSBOROUGH MILL AND COUNTRY PARK; ELSECAR HERITAGE CENTRE AND COOPER GALLERY; AND(3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEPROVIDED THAT SUCH PURPOSES SHALL BE OF AN EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE NATURE.PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED USES THE CHARITY COMMISSION MODEL CONSTITUTION FOR FOUNDATION CIOS WITH VARIANCES FROM THIS HIGHLIGHTED.

Grants received

16 grants · £434,859 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 · £168,900 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £135,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £54,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £39,459 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £37,500

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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.

9 trustees on the board

4.8y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 9Education/training 9General 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.

Education 2Health and social care 1Other services 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£127k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1164496
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 20 Nov 2015
Contact on the register
01226787506 · info@bmht.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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