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Registered charity · Suffolk

The Food Museum

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (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
Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.foodmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Food Museum LTD
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2021£797k£682k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 56%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF EAST ANGLIA IN ITS SOCIAL, CULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL HERITAGE, AS WELL AS ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM THAT CONNECTS THE PEOPLE WITH WHERE FOOD COMES FROM AND THE IMPACT OF OUR FOOD CHOICES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.(2) THE LAND IDENTIFIED IN PARTS 1 AND 2 OF THE SCHEDULE TO THIS SCHEME MUST BE RETAINED BY THE TRUSTEE AND USE FOR THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY.

Grants received

23 grants · £7,867,164 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 · £6,727,937 (8 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £447,818 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £300,436 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000
  • The Headley Trust · £120,247

Most recent

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.

4.8y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

14
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 14Education/training 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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 19Education 4Other services 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.1m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.2 in 2021

45 from 21 in 2021
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.
56%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
293033
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 APR 1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 AUG 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 DEC 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 MAR 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 OCT 2023
Companies House
Company number 01819676 · Active
Contact on the register
01449612229 · contact@foodmuseum.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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