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Heritage Charities That specialise in Museum

Discover 708 Heritage charities that specialise in museum. Use the search below to filter within these results.

708
Charities
£2,748,266,778
Total Income
£758,352
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

The Friends Of Chiltern Open-Air Museum

Associations, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

To encourage, promote and assist in the development of a group of friends in order to further the charitable purposes and encourage the development of the facilities of the Chiltern Open Air Museum.Engage in, support and help co-ordinate research, publishing, education, advertising, fundraising and other activities for the furtherance of the objectives

Latest Income: £15,871
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Mrs L D Rope Fourth Charitable Settlement

Heritage

Supporting work on Airship Heritage Trust Collection at Fleet Air Arm Museum. Gathering further information from original sources on R100 and R101 and securing its publication by sponsoring lectures and other means.

Latest Income: £14,937
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Mersea Island Museum Trust

Heritage

Maintaining a Museum for Mersea Island and the neighbourhood.

Latest Income: £14,735
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Eastbourne Arts Circle

Arts, Associations, Heritage

To support and assist the Towner Art Gallery.To encourage and foster the appreciation of the arts in Eastbourne by the organisation of meetings, exhibitions, concerts, lectures and other related activities.To supplement the facilities provided at the Towner Art Gallery by the Borough Council.

Latest Income: £14,695
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Ashridge Decorative And Fine Arts Society

Heritage, Housing

arrangment of lectures at monthly or other intervals. visits to private houses, collections museums exibitions and other places of interest.

Latest Income: £14,663
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum Trust

Heritage

To record the traditions, and perpetuate the deeds, of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment by collecting together and thereafter displaying and maintaining the collection.

Latest Income: £14,404
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regimental Museum

Armed forces, Charitable activities, Heritage

To provide funds for enlargement of regimental collection

Latest Income: £14,263
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Leicester Literary And Philosophical Society

Arts, Education, Heritage, Research

The Society organises an annual series of lectures, usually held in Leicester New Walk Museum, for the advancement of education in Literature, Science and the Arts. It publishes proceedings and supports the museum. Natural History and Geology Sections organise further events. The Society has close links with Leicester, De Montfort and Loughborough universities and Leicester City Council.

Latest Income: £14,161
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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The Crystal Palace Museum LTD

Education, Heritage

Museum open to the general public which tells the history of the Crystal Palace 1851 - 1951 by photographs, artifacts and the written word. Undertakes educational work with schools primarily covering key stage 2. Provides a service for research both on site and on line.

Latest Income: £13,978
Areas of Operation: Bromley
Status: Registered
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The Hedon Museum Society

Charity and VCS support, Heritage

A volunteer run local museum which aims to collect, preserve and display objects of historic interest which relate to the history and development of the Borough and the Town of Hedon and of the surrounding area.

Latest Income: £13,769
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Bacup Natural History Society

Arts, Environment, Heritage

To encourage interest in local flora and fauna and social and industrial history.To maintain and operate a museum, library and lecture programme to support this.

Latest Income: £13,767
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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The Arts Society - Newmarket

Charity and VCS support, Heritage, Housing, Religion

Promotion of lectures and study days aimed at educating the public in appreciating decorative and fine arts. Arranging visits to museums, galleries, collections and historic houses. Undertaking church recording work. Providing volunteers for heritage property guides. Giving financial aid to young arts. Contributing to national fundraising for fine art.

Latest Income: £13,730
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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Ashwell Village Museum

Heritage

Collects material relating to Ashwell and its neighbourhood and makes it available to the public.

Latest Income: £13,707
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The Oxfordshire Museum

Associations, Charitable activities, Heritage

Education of the public by the promotion, support, assistance and improvement of the Oxfordshire County Museum in Woodstock through the activity of a group of Friends

Latest Income: £13,665
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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R.o.i Limited

Arts, Heritage

The institute's primary activity is the encouragement and development of oil painting. Exhibitions of work by members and selected non-members are held annually at the Mall Galleries, London. Significant prizes are on offer. Opportunities for inter-action with members are featured.

Latest Income: £13,525
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Museum Ethnographers Group

Arts, Heritage

The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) is a subject specialist network (SSN) providing professional support and advice for people working with or studying world cultures collections in museums. Our main activities are the annual conference and journal, quarterly newsletter, website and enquiries services. We also hold regular study visits and training days for members.

Latest Income: £13,488
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The British Balloon Museum And Library Limited

Arts, Heritage

Collection of information and artefacts concerning the history and development of hot air/ gas ballooning and airships in the UK, to provide displays and written material.

Latest Income: £13,424
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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29th Croydon (st Johns) Scout Group

Associations, Heritage, Leisure, Religion, Research

We didn't have many activities during 2020 due to the Pandemic when we couldn't have face to face meetings. However, Scouts had a very active Zoom meetings In early part of year, Beavers celebrated Chinese new year, had a night hike and cooked pancakes. Cubs visited a synagogue, made pancakes, visited a Fire station and some went to the Science Museum. Scouts went ice skating, had a Winter camp

Latest Income: £13,355
Areas of Operation: Croydon
Status: Registered
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Tyneside Decorative And Fine Arts Society

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Heritage, Religion

The society organises ten lectures each year on the decorative and fine arts. It has a church recorders group whose researches produce records of the fabric and contents of churches for presentation. Volunteers assist museums and other institutions with the cataloguing and maintenance of heritage property. The society makes grants to support arts projects in the community.

Latest Income: £13,295
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Maidstone Museums Foundation

Arts, Associations, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

The charity holds fundraising events and organised occasional activities to assist the work of Maidstone's museums and create greater access to their collections. The charity operates a Friends scheme and applies for grant funding to enable it to assist in the furtherance of public education by way of supporting, promoting, assisting and improving the Maidstone Museums and Art Gallery.

Latest Income: £13,217
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Qdg Heritage Trust

Armed forces, Heritage

Museum exhibition has now been incoroprated into the new Firing Line Museum at Cardiff Castle. Research and conservation has continued throughout the year.

Latest Income: £13,074
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Women's Institute - Bardon Mill

Associations, Beneficiary group, Heritage, Housing

Hold meetings with educational speakers. Visit places of interest, museums, historical houses & castles. On line Courses via national WI

Latest Income: £13,043
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The Leamington Art Gallery

Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

Promote & support local art gallery & museum, practically by volunteering help & financially by raising money through organizing excursions & talks held at monthly meetings. We also offer visits to other galleries, study days and holidays.

Latest Income: £13,019
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust

Heritage

The objects of the trust are to promote for the benefit of the nation the preservation of public transport vehicles and items of allied transport interest which are of historical and educational value.

Latest Income: £12,803
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Abbots Hall Trust

Heritage

The Trust owns Abbots Hall, a number of buildings and some 65 acres of land. All of this was let to the Museum of East Anglian Life(now known as the Food Museum) and included in two 120 year leases date 1/9/2004.The Abbots Hall Trust is concerned with monitoring the two leases to the museum and with liaising with the museum and other bodies where appropriate.

Latest Income: £12,801
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many museum heritage charities are there in the UK?

There are 708 registered museum heritage charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the museum heritage charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of museum heritage charities?

Museum heritage charities reported a combined annual income of £2.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for museum heritage charities?

Across all museum heritage charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of museum heritage charities?

Museum heritage charities have an average annual income of £758k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.