YORK MUSEUM & GALLERY TRUST

Registered charity 1092466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORK MUSEUMS TRUST

Museum and gallery services for residents of and visitors to York and the surrounding areas.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the 2024/25 financial year with a surplus before transfers of £87k, resulting in a net movement in funds of £(681,359) after transfers and actuarial adjustments. The trustees report that free reserves were £624k at year-end, which they consider sufficient to satisfy their policy target of two months of operating costs, further bolstered by a subsequent £1m award from the Arts Council’s Museum Renewal Fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04381647
• Trading subsidiary: YORK MUSEUMS AND ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 04466798

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.

• FARRINGTON, Martin Bernard — director, appointed 28/04/2026not on trustee list
• CONSTANTINE, Matthew — director, appointed 28/04/2026not on trustee list
• CLARKE, Anthony Sean, Cllr — director, appointed 22/07/2025on trustee list
• WALLER, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• FOWLER, Nicole Marie — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• ANDREW, Justine Catherine — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• LAMB, David Andrew — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• NEWPORT, Robert John — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• CRAWSHAW, Jonny — director, appointed 19/09/2023on trustee list
• KIRKBY, Azra Nisar — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
• NESBITT, Keith Robert — director, appointed 01/11/2021on trustee list
• SCOTT, Andrew John — director, appointed 02/11/2020on trustee list
• FURLONG, Scott Kildea — director, appointed 20/06/2020on trustee list
• DEAN, Angela Hilda — director, appointed 01/09/2017on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Mark — secretary, appointed 12/01/2026

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 13.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA DEAN
• Andrew Scott
• Azra Kirkby
• Cllr Anthony Clarke
• Cllr Jonny Crawshaw
• David Lamb · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Waller
• Justine Andrew
• Keith Nesbitt
• Nicole Fowler
• Robert Newport
• Scott Furlong

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST.

• MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST income £1.6m
• YORK CARES income £326k
• YORK RI income £564k
• UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENTS' UNION income £6.9m
• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY TRUST income £6.2m

Side by side with its peers

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