Registered charity · Stoke-on-Trent
The Spode Museum Trust
The Spode Museum Trust is a registered charity (number 519597) based in Stoke-on-Trent, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £377k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
- 1 trustee
- Income £377k (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: SMT Trustees Limited.
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
- Stoke-on-trent City
- Website
- www.spodemuseumtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1987
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£377k£346k
- 2024£58k£74k
- 2023£98k£125k
Earlier years
- 2021£132k£110k
- 2020£64k£28k
Income trend, 2020 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 83%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE EXHIBITION OF THE EXISTING COLLECTION WITH SUCH OTHER ITEMS OF ARTEFACTS OF LIKE CHARACTER AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE COMPRISED IN THE TRUST FUND AND TO PRESERVE THE SAME AS A COLLECTION ("THE COLLECTION").
Grants received
4 grants · £182,500 total360Giving 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 · £142,500 (2 grants)
- The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art · £20,000
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £20,000
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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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
- 519597
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 16/11/1987AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 30/03/1999AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 16/12/2015
- Contact on the register
- 01782411421 · contact@spodemuseumtrust.org
- 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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