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Registered charity · Dudley

The Black Country Living Museum Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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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, Recreation
Where
Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell and more
Website
www.bclm.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Black Country Living Museum Trust
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£11m£12m
  • 2023£13m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£9.2m
  • 2021£20m£7.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR ALL BY INCREASING AND INSPIRING THE PUBLIC’S UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE BLACK COUNTRY SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY ON THE INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE WORLD AS WELL AS INCREASING THE SUM OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE REGION DURING THIS PERIOD OF ITS HISTORY; ANDTHE PROVISION, SAFEGUARDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MUSEUM AND COLLECTIONS IN THE BLACK COUNTRY AS A MEANS OF RECORDING AND EXEMPLIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE REGION SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN INDUSTRIALISED WORLD FOR THE BENEFIT AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

12 grants · £19,508,560 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 · £16,865,250 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £2,430,120 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £128,490
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £75,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,700

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £75,0002021-06-25
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,870,0002020-12-15
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £560,1202017-06-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £11,650,2752017-04-25
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport £128,4902017-04-01
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.

13 trustees on the board

3.5y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

12
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 13Education/training 13Environment/conservation/heritage 13

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 13Education 4Retail and trade 3

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£10.7m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.1 in 2020

209 from 157 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
504481
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/09/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/12/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/09/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30/05/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06/06/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/05/2014
Companies House
Company number 01226321 · Active
Contact on the register
0121 557 9643 · info@bclm.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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