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Registered charity · Bournemouth

Russell-Cotes ART Gallery and Museum

Russell-Cotes ART Gallery and Museum is a registered charity (number 306288) based in Bournemouth, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: BCP Council.

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
Where
Bournemouth
Website
www.russellcotes.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2024£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2021£871k£864k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 55%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO MAINTAIN AN ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM KNOWN AS RUSSELL-COTES ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM IN BOURNEMOUTH FOR THE RECREATION AND ENJOYMENT OFTHE PUBLIC.

Grants received

9 grants · £4,515,370 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 · £2,218,600 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,500,817
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £633,500 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £132,453
  • The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art · £30,000

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £1,500,8172025-02-06
  • The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art £30,0002024-11-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £518,0002022-02-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £115,5002019-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £29,4002018-05-09
Board analysis

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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£1.5m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

18 from 13 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.
138 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
306288
Status
Registered
Governing document
INDENTURE DATED 1ST FEBRUARY 1908 AND 29TH OCTOBER 1918 AND SCHEME OF 6TH APRIL 1976 AS AFFECTED BY SECTION 57 OF BOURNEMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL ACT 1985AS AMENDED ON 01 MAR 2016
Contact on the register
01202128000 · russellcotes@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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