Registered charity · Norfolk
The Charles Burrell Museum
- 7 trustees
- Income £16k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Sheila Jean Childerhouse MAChair
- Ann Elizabeth BlackbournTrustee · since 2023
- Brenda CanhamTrustee · since 2015
- Douglas Sydney JeffersonTrustee · since 2023
- Mark Bernard GoddardTrustee · since 2018
- Richard Denys StockTrustee · since 2023
- Sandra Elizabeth AshtonTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:
- Charles Burrell Museum CIO · 3 shared trustees
- Edmund Atmere (Weeting) Charity · 1 shared trustee
- Thetford Municipal and United Almshouse Charity · 1 shared trustee
- Thetford Municipal and United Charities · 1 shared trustee
- Charity of SIR Joseph Williamson for Apprenticing · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
- Where
- Norfolk, Suffolk
- Website
- www.thecharlesburrellmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1989
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£16k£16k
- 2024£12k£9k
- 2023£11k£9k
Earlier years
- 2022£17k£16k
- 2021£18k£19k
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN THETFORD FOR THE EXHIBITION OF STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER MACHINES BUILT BY CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS LIMITED AND MATERIALS RELATING THERETO AND MAKING THE COLLECTION AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH.
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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.
7 trustees on the board
- Sheila Jean Childerhouse MA Chair
- Ann Elizabeth Blackbourn since 2023
- Brenda Canham since 2015
- Douglas Sydney Jefferson since 2023
- Mark Bernard Goddard since 2018
- Richard Denys Stock since 2023
- Sandra Elizabeth Ashton since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Brenda Canham since 2015
- Mark Bernard Goddard since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Ann Elizabeth Blackbourn since 2023
- Douglas Sydney Jefferson since 2023
- Mark Bernard Goddard since 2018
- Richard Denys Stock since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Sheila Jean Childerhouse MA Chair
- Brenda Canham since 2015
- Sandra Elizabeth Ashton since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 802250
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 2ND OCTOBER 1989
- Contact on the register
- 01842683157 · info@charlesburrellmuseum.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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