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Registered charity · Leicester

Collections Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £535k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.collectionstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Collections Trust
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£535k£480k
  • 2024£452k£378k
  • 2023£372k£365k
Earlier years
  • 2022£380k£363k
  • 2021£360k£341k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS AND SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS BY ALL APPROPRIATE METHODS.

Grants received

3 grants · £702,696 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 · £702,696 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £234,2322021-12-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £234,2322020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £234,2322017-06-09
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.

14 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (5)

12
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 14Environment/conservation/heritage 13General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 12Arts and leisure 10Other services 3

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£535k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

6.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

6
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
273984
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 FEBRUARY 1977 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 29 SEPTEMBER 1987, 17 OCTOBER 1989 AND 7TH SEPTEMBER 2000, 16 MAY 2003 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19 MAY 2008. as amended on 25 Jul 2023 as amended on 25 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 01300565 · Active
Contact on the register
0330 179 8385 · office@collectionstrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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