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Registered charity · Kent

The Powell-Cotton Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £19m (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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Kent
Website
powell-cottonmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Powell-Cotton Trust
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£1.3m
  • 2024£3.0m£1.2m
  • 2023£3.6m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£280k£1.0m
  • 2021£861k£942k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:- THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN OR NEAR BIRCHINGTON FOR EXHIBITING SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY AND ETHONOGRAPHY (PARTICULARLY SUCH SPECIMENS COLLECTED BY PERCY HORACE GORDON POWELL COTTON ESQ) AND IF THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, SPECIMENS OF OTHER SCIENCES AND OF THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS (THE MUSEUM);- THE EXTENSION AND ENHANCEMENT, CONSERVATION, STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COLLECTIONS OF SPECIMENS BELONGING TO THE MUSEUM, AND;- THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO THE SPECIMENS BELONGING TO THE MUSEUMS AND THE USE OF SUCH SPECIMENS IN RESEARCH.

Grants received

2 grants · £1,186,452 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,138,152
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £48,300

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £1,138,1522024-01-25
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £48,3002010-12-16
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.

8 trustees on the board

1.1y median 1y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£19.3m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 37.8 in 2021

29 from 32 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
1167318
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 JAN 2016 as amended on 09 Apr 2019 as amended on 04 Mar 2020 as amended on 30 Sept 2024
Companies House
Company number 09934968 · Active
Contact on the register
01843842168 · enquiries@powell-cottonmuseum.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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