TORBAY MUSEUMS TRUST

Registered charity 1025390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TORQUAY MUSEUM SOCIETY, TORQUAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Advancement of education by promoting the study of the Natural Sciences and Human History.Particular emphasis is placed on Natural History, Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Social and Local History and the Industrial and Decorative Arts.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£484k

Latest spending

£494k

Registered

1993

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Trustees · trustee networks

Nicholas Talbot Powe DLchair
Alison Flora MacMillan LVO JP DL
Chantal Geraldine Ashwell · trustee of 1 other charity
David Geoffrey Norman · trustee of 1 other charity
Prof Stephen J Rippon
thomas harper cadbury · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Torbay

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£484k	£494k
31/03/2024	£485k	£344k
31/03/2023	£259k	£342k
31/03/2022	£376k	£400k
31/03/2021	£402k	£376k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/04/2025	£79k	"#HP Embedding Resilience"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/04/2024	£250k	"#HP Groundwork for Resilience"
UK government	15/11/2021	£84k	Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
UK government	22/10/2021	£60k	Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/05/2020	£50k	"Covid 19 Torbay Museums Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/07/2019	£45k	"Celebrating Torquay Museum 175: Inspiring Discovery in Torbay"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/09/2018	£9k	"Ipplepen: Rethinking the Romans in Devon"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/06/2017	£8k	"'The Lost City of Z' interpreting Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/03/2014	£100k	"Torquay Museum transition project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	09/01/2013	£39k	"Geohub 'Gateway' Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/09/2005	£961k	"Torquay Museum Phase 2 Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/05/2004	£50k	"Torquay Museum Phase 2 Project PPG"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	05/02/2004	£19k	"Voicing Torbay's Past"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/06/1999	£639k	"Torquay Museum 2000"