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Registered charity · Swanage

Swanage Museum

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £22k (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Dorset
Website
www.swanagemuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22k£27k
  • 2024£24k£30k
  • 2023£24k£32k
Earlier years
  • 2022£22k£30k
  • 2021£37k£29k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY:- PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF SPECIMENS OF THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS, ETHNOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, BOTANY AND NATURAL HISTORY; AND BY FOSTERING, PROMOTING, IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING ARTISTIC TASTE AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS.

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

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

0
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 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£22k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
44 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
274200
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23RD JUNE 1977, AS AMENDED ON THE 8TH JULY 2003, AS AMENDED ON THE 26 MARCH 2004 AND 4 APRIL 2009. as amended on 21 Sep 2023
Contact on the register
01929421427 · museumswanage@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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