The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The National Horseracing Museum

Registered charity 283656 Registered since 1987

Operates: Cambridgeshire, Suffolk

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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

4.5y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

10
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Animals 1General 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.

Arts and leisure 18Finance 16Tech and media 5

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

109.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.8 in 2020

26 from 37 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.nhrm.co.uk
Emailaccounts@nhrm.co.uk
Phone01638667314
AddressNational Horse Racing Museum, Palace House, Palace Street, NEWMARKET, CB8 8EP

Finances

£1,022,162 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£1,908,274£1,787,050
2021£1,811,969£1,444,715
2022£1,656,096£1,610,702
2023£1,157,807£1,464,208
2024£1,022,162£1,455,019

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The Museum's objects are restricted specifically, only for the public benefit to promote public interest in the preservation of all articles as are of historical or scientific interest in connection with racehorses and persons and places connected with racehorses and the art of other sports generally, principally through the running of the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House, and to preserve and care for the heritage and buildings making up the Palace House complex and in furtherance of this object.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16TH OCTOBER 1981, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 OCTOBER 2004 as amended on 06 Jan 2021 as amended on 29 Jan 2021

Trustees (11)

11trustees
67median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

National Horseracing Museum(the) · 01592031 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 16/10/1981

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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