Registered charity (CIO) · Maryport
Senhouse Museum Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £131k (2025)
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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Cumbria
- Website
- www.senhousemuseum.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£131k£224k
- 2024£154k£157k
- 2023£119k£145k
Earlier years
- 2022£130k£98k
- 2021£124k£86k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ROMANO-BRITISH PERIOD IN GENERAL AND WEST CUMBRIA IN PARTICULAR BY:A) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A PUBLIC MUSEUM WITHIN THE CIVIL PARISH OF MARYPORT; B) EXHIBITING THE NETHERHALL COLLECTION AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS, ARTEFACTS OR ITEMS OF INTEREST RELATING TO THE ROMANO-BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY IN GENERAL AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF WEST CUMBRIA IN PARTICULAR; C) PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE ROMANO-BRITISH PERIOD IN GENERAL AND WEST CUMBRIA IN PARTICULAR AND DISSEMINATING AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.
Grants received
1 grant · £66,000 total360Giving 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 · £66,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Dr Peter Richard Wilson Chair since 2017
- Eleanor Kingston since 2017
- Nicholas Randall since 2026
- Peter Messenger since 2017
- Rachel Margaret Newman BA FSA since 2017
- William Bernard Griffiths since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Peter Richard Wilson Chair since 2017
- Eleanor Kingston since 2017
- Peter Messenger since 2017
- Rachel Margaret Newman BA FSA since 2017
- William Bernard Griffiths since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Eleanor Kingston since 2017
- Nicholas Randall since 2026
- Peter Messenger since 2017
- Rachel Margaret Newman BA FSA since 2017
- William Bernard Griffiths since 2017
Portfolio (1)
- Dr Peter Richard Wilson Chair since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1175131
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 12 Oct 2017
- Contact on the register
- 01900816168 · info@senhousemuseum.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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