MAGNA TRUST

Registered charity 1074578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAGNA

Magna is a science education adventure centre incorporating a visitor attraction with four pavilions focusing on Air, Earth, Fire and Water comprising over 100 interactive exhibits. The attraction is augmented by two outdoor play areas.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,056,435 for the year, driven by total expenditure of £4,110,035 against total income of £3,053,600. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £311,053, which is below the stated policy target of £320,000. The trustees maintain that the charity is a going concern based on a business plan covering three years to March 2028.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03515568
• Trading subsidiary: MAGNA ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03817198

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Hammill — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HAMMILL, Richard George — director, appointed 30/04/2026not on trustee list
• TOMLINSON, Kevin — director, appointed 22/02/2026on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Matthew David — director, appointed 12/08/2025on trustee list
• PRATT, Kathryn Mary Germaine — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• RIDSDALE, Matthew James — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• YARLETT, Michael Stewart — director, appointed 20/10/2015on trustee list
• SMITH, Michael John — director, appointed 01/05/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathryn Mary Germaine Pratt
• MICHAEL JOHN SMITH
• Matthew David Stephens
• Matthew James Ridsdale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Yarlett
• kevin tomlinson

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

Operates in: Rotherham

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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Side by side with its peers

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