Heritage Charities That specialise in Museum

Museum and Heritage Centre

Educational Charity providing grants to young people from Hawkshead for further education or for entry into one of the professions. Also providing a museum experience based on the Old Grammar School Building showing how an Elizabethan Grammar school worked.

Preservation Conservation of the site of Shaftesbury Abbey and making the museum garden available to the general public.

The De Morgan Foundation holds an extensive collection of arts and crafts ceramics by the Victorian ceramicist William De Morgan and oil paintings and drawings by the artist Evelyn De Morgan. The charity's primary objective is the "provision and maintenance of the collection" to a public audience, which the Foundation achieves at its museum, though exhibitions, and a public programme.

To hold the regimental collection, preserving, safeguarding and displaying the articles to their best possible advantage.To apply funds at their disposal to acquire uniforms, medals, pictures, books, manuscripts, maps, documents and other articles suitable to enhance the collection.To uphold the traditions of the regiment.

Operation of the North West Museum of Road Transport in St Helens town centre.

A programme of talks on the history and archaeology of the borough of Wandsworth and beyond; archaeological visits to the Thames foreshore; occasional visits to local places of interest; support for Wandsworth Museum.

1. To increase the understanding and enjoyment of painting and sculpture,2. to help create, in Norwich, an arts programme of national significance,3. fundraising to ensure financial security for collection exhibitions at Norwich Castle Galleries, and4. to support students through its education project including art workshops targeted at primary school children from deprived areas of Norwich.

The charity operates Torfaen Museum in the borough of Torfaen. The museum includes an art gallery, and displays of artefacts relating to the history of the Eastern Valley of Gwent. Of notable interest is the collection of Japanware, which was a speciality of the Pontypool district in the eighteenth century. The Trust also provides educational services in the area.

Trust is responsible for maintaining and managing an independent art gallery devoted to the work of one of Britain's greatest 20th Century artists Sir Stanley Spencer RA who was born in Cookham and set many of his paintings in the village. The gallery has over 100 paintings and drawings of the artist and is housed in the former Wesley Chapel where he worshipped with his mother.

The Red Rose Steam Society Ltd. now trading as the Lancashire Mining Museum is a registered charity and a registered museum. It has the last mining headgear in the Lancashire Coalfield ands the largest winding engine in Europe - both are on the at risk register of listed buildings.. The Society continues to foster the love of industrial heritage particularly amongst young people

Narberth Museum undertook the restoration of The Bonded Stores enabling the Trust to develop its educational and community work.The Museum provides permanent and temporary exhibitions, an education service, research facilities for local and family historians and a varied programme of talks and events.It continues to involve itself in the architectural heritage of the area.

The running of premises for the storage and restoration of items, and a museum of restored items which tell the story of local road passenger transport on the South Coast.The organisation and operation of free bus services and other special events to demonstarte the vehicles and practices used in the past to operate local road passenger transport.

The objectives of the RI are for the advancement of the aesthetic education of the public by the promotion of the fine arts and in particular the art of painting in watercolours. (These objectives are mainly realised through an annual exhibition. This year was the 209th and held at the Mall Galleries, London).

Educating the public at large as to the operation and historic interest of the trolleybus by(a) Maintaining and restoring the Society's historic trolleybus collection(b) Supporting the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft(c) Publishing a monthly journal about the Society and trolleybuses(d) Publishing books about the trolleybus

Heritage museum reflecting the heritage of the town of Crewe and its involvement in railway history.

A friends organisation to support Gunnersbury Park and Museum

THE FOUNDATION IS COMMITTED TO A SMALL NUMBER OF MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS IN ISRAEL AND THE UK. THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE PORTER SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY. IN THE UK, THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT ACCESS TO THE ARTS BY FUNDING PORTER GALLERIES, AND THE FOUNDATION HAS A CONTINUING COMMITMENT TO THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM.

To uphold and promote the traditions of the nation's Royal Military Police and its antcedents; enable visitors to explore the Museum's heritage collection for learning, research and their enjoyment; and to preserve the Museum's collection, its artefacts and archives.

The trustees general favour charities operating in Scotland but not to the exclusion of charities operating solely in England and/or Wales and/or Northern Ireland. The trustees favour organisations involved with the performing arts and those that further the visual arts and museums.

Holds meetings with guest speakers on archaelogical subjects. Arranges study days on particular periods of history and outings to places of archaelogical importance & interest.

To provide a museum and local history library collection covering the county of Huntingdonshire.

It is a registered museum.

The Charity maintains the King's House and Gardens in Thetford as requested in the will of George Wild Staniforth to house the collection (or part of it) bequeathed by him. Some of the collection is looked after by Norfolk Museum Service. Thetford Town Council is the sole corporate trustee.

The principal objects of the Charity are to provide funds for:1) the preservation and repair of the College of Arms building2) the establishment and maintenance of a Museum of Heraldry for the benefit of the public3) such other legally charitable purposes in connection with the College of Arms as the trustees and the College may determine from time-to-time