THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1062400 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM, THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Latest income

£1.0m

Latest spending

£1.6m

Registered

1997

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£1.0m

Total spending

£1.6m

Cost of raising funds

£2k

Reserves (reported)

£543k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (07/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Claire Dixon
David French
Dr ANN ABRAHAM
Hazel Ormrod
Jonathan Charles Cotton
Laura Danielle Martin
Laura Southall
Morag Wood
Professor Paul James Gough · trustee of 2 other charities
Tracey Marie Parsons
Tracy Chevalier

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.0m	£1.6m
31/03/2024	£1.1m	£2.8m
31/03/2023	£1.2m	£2.3m
31/03/2022	£1.4m	£2.8m
31/03/2021	£6.3m	£1.1m

Common questions

Who funds THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, THE J P MARLAND CHARITABLE TRUST, THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION, THE ARDEOLA CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	FY2024	£20k
THE J P MARLAND CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£12k
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1k
THE ARDEOLA CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k
THE J P MARLAND CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£0

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	11/02/2026	£63k	"Revealing Dorset's Hidden Treasure"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/12/2024	£250k	"Dorset Museum & Art Gallery roof replacement and reimagining of Victorian Hall"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/07/2024	£94k	"Jane Austen 2025"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	01/11/2023	£250k	"TomorrowÂ’s Museum for Dorset - A Sustainable Future"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/03/2016	£6k	"Museum Makers"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/04/2015	£9.3m	"Tomorrow's Museum for Dorset: Re-Imagining Dorset County Museum (KickstartGIA2020)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/12/2013	£10k	"Mabel Stobart: A Dorset Woman At War"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/08/2011	£34k	"Our Sporting Life"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	07/04/2010	£14k	"Hardy's Wessex Sprung to Life"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/03/2008	£180k	"Romney Portraits"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	15/03/2005	£337k	"Jurassic Coast Gallery"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/10/2001	£254k	"Thomas Hardy Papers - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/08/1999	£88k	"Dorset County Museum Access programe 1999, Dorchester - Visitor co-ordinator"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/08/1999	£89k	"Dorchester Gallery in the Dorchester County Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/01/1999	£30k	"1000 - 2000 Years of the Church in Wessex"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/05/1997	£21k	"Dorset County Museum - Feasibility Study"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/09/1996	£244k	"Dorset County Museum, Dorchester"