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Sheffield Museums Trust

15 trustees
Income £5.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Sheffield City
Website: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Sheffield Museums Trust
Registered: 2021

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£5.5m£6.0m
2024£5.2m£5.9m
2023£4.3m£5.2m

Earlier years

2022£4.2m£5.2m

Income trend, 2022 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 42% · Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS AND NATURAL SCIENCES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A THE ACQUISITION, OWNERSHIP, PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT, ENHANCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ITEMS AND FEATURES OF ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC, HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTEREST FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;B THE CARE, MANAGEMENT, DISPLAY AND DEVELOPMENT OF:I THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL;II THE ART COLLECTION OF THE MAPPIN TRUST;III THE COLLECTION OF THE GUILD OF ST GEORGE;IV THE COLLECTION OF THE KEN HAWLEY COLLECTION TRUST; ANDV COLLECTIONS OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR BODY TO AN EXTENT CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY

Grants received

9 grants · £1,597,400 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 · £1,016,400 (5 grants)
The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £441,500 (2 grants)
John Ellerman Foundation · £94,500
Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £45,000

Most recent

The National Lottery Heritage Fund £206,5002025-06-10
The National Lottery Heritage Fund £235,0002023-06-05
Department for Culture, Media & Sport £45,0002023-03-31
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £94,4882021-07-16
John Ellerman Foundation £94,5002021-05-27

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.

15 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

9.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (4)

Neil Andrew Macdonald Chair since 2020
Dr Julie Patricia Banham since 2023
Martin Singer since 2021
Maxine Greaves MBE since 2021

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 14Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The 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 17Professional services 16Manufacturing 9

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 4 years.

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£5.5m 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.3 in 2022

129 from 100 in 2022

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.

57%

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: 1194032
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 DEC 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 APR 2021
Companies House: Company number 13063156 · Active
Contact on the register: 01142782600 · info@sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 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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