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Higher Mill Museum Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Lancashire
Website
highermillmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3k£8k
  • 2023£12k£3k
  • 2022£285£383
Earlier years
  • 2021£34£471
  • 2020£78£2k
Charitable objects

1. THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF HIGHER MILL HELMSHORE AND THE ASSOCIATED LAND AS A SITE OF SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: I) THE USE OF HIGHER MILL AS A WORKING MUSEUM OF THE LANCASHIRE TEXTILE INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE TEXTILE HERITAGE, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC ACCESS. II) THE ACQUISITION, PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF EARLY TEXTILE MACHINES AND RELEVANT COLLECTIONS FOR DISPLAY TO THE PUBLIC IN HIGHER MILL OR ANY OTHER MUSEUM.III) THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF, AND RESEARCH INTO, THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH.

Board analysis for researchers

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

5.8y median 7y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

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 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 2Construction 1Education 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1179086
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Jul 2018
Contact on the register
01706632223
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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