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Registered charity · London

The Museums Association

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.museumsassociation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Museums Association
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.3m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.4m£1.7m
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MATERIAL HERITAGE OF MANKIND AND THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES AND BY ENCOURAGING THE INVOLVEMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THEIR WORK AND TO ESTABLISH, UPHOLD AND ADVANCE THE STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION, TRAINING AND COMPETENCE OF THOSE EMPLOYED IN MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 11Disability 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 20Professional services 3Construction 2

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£2.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.4 in 2021

21 from 20 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
313024
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/11/1930AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/07/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/06/1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/07/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/09/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/07/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/10/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/03/2011 as amended on 08 Nov 2018 as amended on 12 Nov 2024 as amended on 12 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 00252131 · Active
Contact on the register
02075667800 · info@museumsassociation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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