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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.

Halstead And District Local History Society

Heritage

The study of local history predominantly in the immediate geographical area. Information shared by monthly lectures, quarterly newsletter and museum.

Latest Income: £5,457
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Staffordshire Regiment (the Prince Of Wales's) Regimental Charity

Armed forces, Heritage

Supplies financial support for ex-service and serving soldiers of the Regiment. Assists with maintenance of Regimental Museum.

Latest Income: £5,387
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Friends Of Reading Museum

Arts, Associations, Heritage

SUPPORT FOR READING MUSEUM

Latest Income: £5,386
Areas of Operation: Reading
Status: Registered
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The Museum Of Soho Limited

Heritage

The main aims of the Museum are:to create a safe haven for any artefacts, documents, and oral history relating to Sohoto ensure that these items are recorded in a professional mannerto create a database and locations guide for the whole collectionto develop the website.

Latest Income: £5,328
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Morpeth Antiquarian Society

Heritage

M.A.S. is a local history society that presents a series of lectures, outings and an annual exhibitiion.It is also actively trying to establish a local museum/heritage centre based on The Society's own collection.

Latest Income: £5,326
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Flintham Society

Economic and community development, Heritage

museum which looks at rural life through the eyes of a village shopkeeperprovides activities and events for the local community

Latest Income: £5,312
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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S.a. Oliver Charitable Settlement

Arts, Education, Heritage

The Charity owns a number of paintings, books, postcards and antique items of historical interest which all have a direct link with the Borough of Runnymede. Items are regularly displayed in the Chertsey Museum with the Literary items being stored at Royal Holloway College. The Charity looks to maintain and add to the Collections on a regular basis.

Latest Income: £5,274
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Kent And Sharpshooters Yeomanry Regimental Museum Trust

Armed forces, Heritage

General Charitable PurposesEnvironment/Conservation/Heritage

Latest Income: £5,233
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Went Tree Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

(a) Provision of grants to those people of Hastings who wish to emigrate to Commonwealth countries (the Emigration Fund)(b) Provision of grants for the purchase of artefacts for the Hastings Museum (the Museum Fund)

Latest Income: £5,179
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Whitworth Historical Society

Charitable activities, Heritage

To advance the education of the public regarding the history of the Whitworth Valley and in particular by the establishment and maintenance of a Public Museum

Latest Income: £5,172
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Long Buckby Local History Society

Heritage

The Society runs a programme of talks, walks and other events relating to local history in general and to the history of Long Buckby in particular. It also carries out research on aspects of village history. The third area of activity is the collection of photographs, documents and artefacts relating to the village past and present and to this end it maintains a small museum for its collection.

Latest Income: £5,080
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Guermonprez Museum Collection

Arts, Heritage, Research

Care & making available for access where appropriate (including specialist research & loans) of the Guermonprez Collection within the overall Portsmouth Museums Service. The Collection comprises natural history material including preserved mammals,birds,reptiles,fish,insects,shells,botanical & geological artefacts,scientific watercolours,books, & photos of social history topics.

Latest Income: £5,053
Areas of Operation: Portsmouth City
Status: Registered
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The Essex Regiment Museum

Heritage

The purpose of the charity is to own, enhance, conserve and display a collection of artefacts and archive material relevant to the Essex Regiment and its successors in order that current and future generations may fully appreciate the service given by the Regiment and the sacrifices made by its members.

Latest Income: £4,926
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Hahnemann House Trust

Arts, Health, Heritage, Housing

A public museum for housing and exhibition of relics belonging to Dr Samuel Hahnemann, a public library for housing and reading of publications of Dr Samuel Hahanemann. All in aid of advancement of the teaching and practice of homeopathy and research in matters relating to homeopathy

Latest Income: £4,894
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Friends Of Astley Hall Museum And Art Gallery

Arts, Associations, Heritage

Upkeep of the Hall, Promotion and assistance to the public.

Latest Income: £4,893
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Red House Museum And Art Gallery

Arts, Heritage

Suport to museums services

Latest Income: £4,884
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Stanmer Preservation Society

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Heritage, Religion

To improve, protect and preserve Stanmer village, Brighton, and its environs for the benefit of the public, including Stanmer church and the local rural history museum;To campaign; to educate public opinion; to make representations at public enquiries in support of the above objectives;

Latest Income: £4,838
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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The Friends Of The Ceredigion Museum

Associations, Charitable activities, Heritage

The object of the Association is the education of the public by promotion, support, assistance and improvement of the Ceredigion Museum through the activity of a group of Friends

Latest Income: £4,770
Areas of Operation: Ceredigion
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The Dales Countryside Museum

Associations, Economic and community development, Heritage

1. Promotion of the improvement of the Dales Countryside Museum. 2. Raising of funds to help in maintaining and enlarging the collection. 3. Arranging lectures and other interesting and educational events.

Latest Income: £4,749
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Great Yarmouth Local History And Archaeological Society

Arts, Heritage

To facilitate the study and exchange of local history and archaeology information in Great Yarmouth and district through meetings and publication of books.GYLH&AS provides information to the public, provides speakers for local meetings, works with local archaeological and other groups in the area. It interacts with local museums & runs a YAC in conjunction with the Time & Tide Museum.

Latest Income: £4,728
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Godmanchester Museum

Associations, Education, Heritage

To promote community use of the Queen Elizabeth School, Godmanchester: all funds raised go towards the enhancement of the facilities and the running of the local museum

Latest Income: £4,725
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The Hertfordshire Heritage Fund

Beneficiary group, Heritage

THE HERTFORDSHIRE HERITAGE FUND WAS LAUNCHED IN 1988 WITHIN THE PURPOSE TO SUPPORT MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES IN HERTFORDSHIRE TO PURCHASE ITEMS RELATING TO THE COUNTY'S PAST AND MAKE THEM ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. SINCE 1988 OVER 50 GRANTS HAVE BEEN GIVEN.

Latest Income: £4,670
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Owston Ferry Heritage Society

Heritage

Promotion/Conservation of Local History/HeritageProgramme of Talks/EventsUpkeep/Staffing of village Museum

Latest Income: £4,503
Areas of Operation: North Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Swinford Museum

Heritage

We conserve and display objects contained in our collection for the public to view in the museum.

Latest Income: £4,485
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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The Mechanics Centre Museum Of Labour And Trades Union History Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage, Research

The Charities objects are to advance the education of the public including advancing its knowledge of the origins,growth and development of the Labour and Trades Union movements and promoting an understanding of the contribution made by the Manchester Mechanics Insitute to the education of young people in the application of science to mechanical and manufacturing.

Latest Income: £4,453
Areas of Operation: Manchester City
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.