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Registered charity · Cambridge

Museum of Cambridge

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £276k (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.museumofcambridge.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Museum of Cambridge
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£276k£300k
  • 2024£238k£271k
  • 2023£285k£286k
Earlier years
  • 2022£263k£255k
  • 2021£207k£169k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 52%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY ACQUIRING (WITHIN THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLICY) HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND CONSERVING RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE AND BY ESTABLISHING ACQUIRING MANAGING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS GALLERIES LIBRARIES AND OTHER PLACES WHERE SUCH PURPOSES MAY BE ACHIEVED; PRESERVING THE LOCAL HERITAGE AND PRESENTING THIS TO THE COMMUNITY AND WIDER PUBLIC; EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES BASED UPON LOCAL HISTORY AND THE MUSEUM’S ARTEFACTS.

Grants received

8 grants · £1,362,490 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

Most recent

  • Cambridgeshire Community Foundation £5,8002024-05-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £99,7902024-02-09
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £210,6002020-03-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £85,2002018-01-23
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £7,9002016-09-08
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

6
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 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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 6

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£276k 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
311309
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/06/1946AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/02/1968AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/1992AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/02/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01 NOV 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 SEP 2017 as amended on 21 Oct 2021 as amended on 25 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 00412205 · Active
Contact on the register
01223 355159 · enquiries@museumofcambridge.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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