Registered charity · Leicester
Newarke Houses Museum
Newarke Houses Museum is a registered charity (number 513493) based in Leicester, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £20k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
Also known as Skeffington House & William Wigston's Chantry House (Charity Commission)
- 1 trustee
- Income £20k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
No individual trustees are listed on the register.
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Leicester City Council.
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
- Leicester City
- Registered
- 1983
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£20k£237k
- 2024£18k£279k
- 2023£18k£262k
Earlier years
- 2022£3k£220k
- 2021£572£188k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROVIDE A MUSEUM OR ART GALLERY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TELLING THE STORY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF LEICESTER IN AGES PAST AND ILLUSTRATING ITS CONDITION FOR THE TIME BEING AND EXHIBITING SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT AND THE PROMOTION AND EXTENSION OF ARTISTIC CULTURE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 513493
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONVEYANCE DATED 23 DECEMBER 1913 DEED OF APPOINTMENT DATED 28 FEBRUARY 1933
- Contact on the register
- 01164544637 · museums@leicester.gov.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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