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Registered charity · Arundel

Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2022£928k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£817k£772k
  • 2020£649k£570k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A CENTRE OR CENTRES IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF SPECIMENS OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, BUILDINGS AND INVENTIONS OF WHATEVER NATURE OF HISTORICAL OR EDUCATIONAL INTEREST AND SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OF THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY INCLUDING TECHNIQUES OF INDUSTRIAL MILITARY AND PLANNING PROCESSES, RURAL ARTS, CRAFTS AND INDUSTRY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES SHOWING HUMAN CREATIVITY OF AN HISTORICAL OR EDUCATION INTEREST.

Grants received

19 grants · £1,047,988 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £679,423 (9 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £118,696 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £99,224 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £76,995
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £73,650

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £19,2242020-11-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £50,0002020-08-10
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £80,0002020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £58,0002019-02-28
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £76,9952018-04-01
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.

3y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

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 10Business services 7Professional services 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.2 in 2020

30 from 19 in 2020
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
278722
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 SEP 1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 SEP 1991AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21 FEB 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 JUL 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 OCT 2022
Companies House
Company number 01402483 · Active
Contact on the register
01798831370 · accounts@amberleymuseum.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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