Heritage Charities That specialise in Museum
Discover 708 Heritage charities that specialise in museum. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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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, HeritageTo 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
The Mrs L D Rope Fourth Charitable Settlement
HeritageSupporting 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.
Mersea Island Museum Trust
HeritageMaintaining a Museum for Mersea Island and the neighbourhood.
The Eastbourne Arts Circle
Arts, Associations, HeritageTo 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.
The Ashridge Decorative And Fine Arts Society
Heritage, Housingarrangment of lectures at monthly or other intervals. visits to private houses, collections museums exibitions and other places of interest.
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum Trust
HeritageTo record the traditions, and perpetuate the deeds, of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment by collecting together and thereafter displaying and maintaining the collection.
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regimental Museum
Armed forces, Charitable activities, HeritageTo provide funds for enlargement of regimental collection
Leicester Literary And Philosophical Society
Arts, Education, Heritage, ResearchThe 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.
The Crystal Palace Museum LTD
Education, HeritageMuseum 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.
The Hedon Museum Society
Charity and VCS support, HeritageA 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.
The Bacup Natural History Society
Arts, Environment, HeritageTo 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.
The Arts Society - Newmarket
Charity and VCS support, Heritage, Housing, ReligionPromotion 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.
Ashwell Village Museum
HeritageCollects material relating to Ashwell and its neighbourhood and makes it available to the public.
Friends Of The Oxfordshire Museum
Associations, Charitable activities, HeritageEducation 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
R.o.i Limited
Arts, HeritageThe 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.
Museum Ethnographers Group
Arts, HeritageThe 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.
The British Balloon Museum And Library Limited
Arts, HeritageCollection 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.
29th Croydon (st Johns) Scout Group
Associations, Heritage, Leisure, Religion, ResearchWe 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
Tyneside Decorative And Fine Arts Society
Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Heritage, ReligionThe 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.
The Maidstone Museums Foundation
Arts, Associations, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, HeritageThe 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.
Qdg Heritage Trust
Armed forces, HeritageMuseum exhibition has now been incoroprated into the new Firing Line Museum at Cardiff Castle. Research and conservation has continued throughout the year.
Women's Institute - Bardon Mill
Associations, Beneficiary group, Heritage, HousingHold meetings with educational speakers. Visit places of interest, museums, historical houses & castles. On line Courses via national WI
Friends Of The Leamington Art Gallery
Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, HeritagePromote & 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.
West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust
HeritageThe 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.
Abbots Hall Trust
HeritageThe 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.
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.