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Registered charity · Milton Keynes

City Discovery Centre

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £377k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.mkcdc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
City Discovery Centre
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£377k£514k
  • 2024£377k£398k
  • 2023£351k£319k
Earlier years
  • 2022£246k£288k
  • 2021£409k£381k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO MAINTAIN, PROMOTE, FACILITATE, IMPROVE AND DEVELOP THE STUDY OF ARCHEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND THE NATURAL AND MAN-MADE ENVIROMENT AND (II) TO MAINTAIN, PRESERVE, RESTORE, CONSERVE, IMPROVE AND ENHANCE BUILDINGS, SITES, FEATURES AND OBJECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ARTISTIC, SOCIAL OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST IN MILTON KEYNES AND ITS ENVIRONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF AND VISITORS TO MILTON KEYNES AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Grants received

9 grants · £338,285 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £204,328 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £103,957 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £30,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £58,7572023-02-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-08-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-05-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £145,9002020-10-14
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002020-09-22
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.

9 trustees on the board

4y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 8General Charitable Purposes 8Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 9Arts and leisure 2Health and social care 1

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£377k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
297397
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORTED 17TH FEBRUARY 1987, AS AMENDED 28TH JULY 1987
Companies House
Company number 02108180 · Active
Contact on the register
01908 227229 · information@mkcdc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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