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Registered charity · Warwick

British Motor Industry Heritage Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £6.3m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Motor Industry Heritage Trust
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£6.3m£6.4m
  • 2023£6.0m£5.9m
  • 2022£4.2m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£3.2m£4.4m
  • 2020£2.7m£4.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION A MOTOR VEHICLE MUSEUM AND TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES MANUFACTURED AND SOLD BY THE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY TOGETHER WITH THE HISTORIC ARCHIVES AND ARTIFACTS RELATING TO THE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY WHERE SUCH VEHICLES, ARCHIVES AND ARTIFACTS ARE OF ACTUAL IMPORTANCE AND EDUCATIVE VALUE. (II) TO EXHIBIT TO THE PUBLIC SUCH VEHICLES AND ARTIFACTS AS AFORESAID BY MEANS OF EITHER TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS AND TO DEMONSTRATE AND ASSIST IN DEMONSTRATING TO THE PUBLIC AND WORKING AND OPERATION OF ANY SUCH VEHICLES, ARTIFACTS AND EQUIPMENT AND ALSO TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC OF THE ARCHIVE MATERIAL...

Grants received

14 grants · £5,075,104 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 · £3,176,930 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,890,644 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £7,530

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £224,0482021-12-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £224,0482020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £707,0002020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £261,5002020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £250,0002019-06-25
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.

5.7y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
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 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

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 15Business services 3Hospitality 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£6.3m latest income
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 16.6 in 2020

122 from 87 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
286575
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7TH JANUARY 1983 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21ST MARCH 2006 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10 NOVEMBER 2008 as amended on 04 Apr 2023
Companies House
Company number 01690117 · Active
Contact on the register
01926895300 · enquiries@britishmotormuseum.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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