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Registered charity · York

Yorkshire Museum of Farming Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £749k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City and more
Website
www.murtonpark.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Museum of Farming Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£749k£725k
  • 2024£682k£692k
  • 2023£667k£616k
Earlier years
  • 2022£620k£592k
  • 2021£562k£465k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE MUISEUM IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT BUILDGS, DOCUMENTS AND LIVESTOCK OF EDUCATIONAL AND HISTORICAL INTEREST AND TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A MUSEUM AT MURTON IN THE COUNTY OF NORTH YORKSHIRE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXHIBITING TO THE PUBLIC SUCH ITEMS OF EDUCATIONAL OR HISTORICAL INTERESTS AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBOVE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE.

Grants received

2 grants · £105,400 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 · £105,400 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £60,7002012-06-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £44,7002006-12-22
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.

5.9y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12Animals 11General 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 11Education 5Agriculture 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£682k 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.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 14.2 in 2020

23 from 17 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
510900
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/10/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/06/2015
Companies House
Company number 01522789 · Active
Contact on the register
01904489731 · s.lofthouse@murtonpark.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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