Registered charity · Telford

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Limited

11 trustees
Income £9.2m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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: Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Website: www.ironbridge.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Limited
Registered: 1968

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£9.2m£9.6m
2023£13m£9.3m
2022£10m£14m

Earlier years

2021£8.9m£7.7m
2020£7.3m£6.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 26%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST SHALL BE TO PROMOTE:(A) THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION OF LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST AND AS REGARDS LANDS FOR THE PRESERVATION (SO FAR AS PRACTICABLE) OF THEIR NATURAL ASPECT FEATURES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE;(B) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OF NATIONAL INTEREST OR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST AND PLACES OF NATURAL INTEREST OR BEAUTY AND THE PROTECTION AND AUGMENTATION OF THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS AND PLACES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS;(C) THE PRESERVATION OF FURNITURE AND PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING NATIONAL OR HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST; AND(D) THE ACCESS TO AND ENJOYMENT OF SUCH BUILDINGS PLACES AND CHATTELS BY THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

44 grants · £23,919,621 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 · £11,206,043 (13 grants)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £8,894,122 (14 grants)
Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £2,407,024 (10 grants)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £1,359,874 (5 grants)
Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £32,558

Most recent

Department for Culture, Media & Sport £90,0002025-03-24
Department for Culture, Media & Sport £3,2502024-04-01
Department for Culture, Media & Sport £2,4372024-04-01
Department for Culture, Media & Sport £30,0562024-04-01
Department for Culture, Media & Sport £4,3052024-03-19

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

17.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

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 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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 23Retail and trade 7Property 5

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.

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£9.2m 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.0 in 2020

247 from 213 in 2020

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: 503717
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/10/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/06/2011 AS AMENDED ON 25 JUL 2018 AS AMENDED ON 09 DEC 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 JUL 2021 AS AMENDED ON 27 JUL 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 DEC 2025AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03 JAN 2026
Companies House: Company number 00918560 · Active
Contact on the register: 01952435900 · information@ironbridge.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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