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Registered charity · Brighton

Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £9.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
brightonmuseums.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.3m£9.9m
  • 2024£9.2m£9.3m
  • 2023£7.5m£8.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.7m£8.0m
  • 2021£5.9m£3.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 20% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION IN, THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE, AND SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY:(A) MANAGING, OPERATING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS AND THEIR PERMANENT COLLECTIONS, INCLUDING BY ACQUIRING SUITABLE OBJECTS FOR THE COLLECTIONS;(B) PRESERVING AND SAFEGUARDING THE LAND AND THE BUILDINGS OF THE ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS; AND(C) PROVIDING FOR, OR SUPPORTING, THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, REFURBISHMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS OF COLLECTIONS IN THE BRIGHTON AND HOVE AREA; AND2.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), IN RELATION TO HERITAGE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS; AND2.1.3 THE MAINTENANCE AND PROVISION OF LAND AND FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.2.2. THE ‘ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS’ SHALL MEAN THE ROYAL PAVILION GARDENS, BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, PRESTON MANOR, HOVE MUSEUM, AND BOOTH MUSEUM.

Grants received

28 grants · £22,837,921 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,461,321 (11 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £9,565,548 (10 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £2,599,104 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £36,948 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002026-02-23
  • The National Archives £25,0002025-01-21
  • Department of Health and Social Care £2,312,9332022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,463,7692022-02-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £68,7602022-01-31
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.

11 trustees on the board

4.2y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Environment/conservation/heritage 3General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 15Other services 5Health and social care 4

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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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£9.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.4 in 2021

222 from 208 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.
27%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1186986
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 JAN 2019NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29 NOV 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19 JAN 2021
Companies House
Company number 11774969 · Active
Contact on the register
03000 290 900 · info@rpmt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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