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Registered charity · Runcorn

The Norton Priory Museum Trust Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £734k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Halton
Website
www.nortonpriory.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Norton Priory Museum Trust Limited
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£734k£698k
  • 2024£694k£715k
  • 2023£448k£605k
Earlier years
  • 2022£676k£582k
  • 2021£596k£452k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 44%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO SECURE THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT, ENHANCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS, FEATURES AND OBJECTS OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTEREST AND THE GARDENS IN THE SITE OF NORTON PRIORY RUNCORN, AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND PROVISION WITHIN THE SITE OF A MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF ARTIFACTS AND OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO THE AUGUSTINIAN PRIORY AND LATER BUILDINGS FORMERLY ON THE SITE AND IN ITS VICINITY.

Grants received

11 grants · £4,896,755 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 · £4,886,160 (9 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,595 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £107,8002020-07-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £64,2002018-10-29
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,8002013-06-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,292,0002012-07-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6002011-04-27
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

6y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

10
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Environment/conservation/heritage 2

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 13Hospitality 8Health and social care 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£734k 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.3 in 2021

11 from 10 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
504870
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 NOVEMBER 1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18 MAY 2017
Companies House
Company number 01232182 · Active
Contact on the register
01928 569895 · info@nortonpriory.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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