Registered charity (CIO) · Ipswich
The Friends of the Ipswich Museums
- 7 trustees
- Income £211k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Suffolk
- Website
- www.friendsofipswichmuseums.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£211k£243k
- 2023£34k£23k
- 2022£186k£182k
Earlier years
- 2021£17k£25k
- 2020£16k£15k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, SUPPORTING, ASSISTING AND IMPROVING THE IPSWICH MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES THROUGH THE ACTIVITY OF A GROUP OF FRIENDS WHICH WILL:(1) SUPPORT PRESERVATION, PRESENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLECTIONS OF THE IPSWICH MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN CO-OPERATION WITH ITS MANAGEMENT AND STAFF;(2) PROMOTE AWARENESS OF AND STIMULATE INTEREST IN THE IPSWICH MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
Grants received
1 grant · £150,000 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Richard Wilson Chair since 2019
- Andrew Sewell since 2019
- Christopher Strang since 2020
- Denise Fiennes since 2019
- Erica Burrows since 2019
- Jean Attenborrow since 2019
- Sheila Brooks since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard Wilson Chair since 2019
- Andrew Sewell since 2019
- Denise Fiennes since 2019
- Erica Burrows since 2019
- Jean Attenborrow since 2019
- Sheila Brooks since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Richard Wilson Chair since 2019
- Andrew Sewell since 2019
- Christopher Strang since 2020
- Erica Burrows since 2019
- Jean Attenborrow since 2019
- Sheila Brooks since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Denise Fiennes since 2019
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
- 1184000
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 20 Jun 2019
- Contact on the register
- 01473433554 · contact@foim.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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