LLANGOLLEN MUSEUM

Registered charity 1103113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance education by the establishment and maintenance of a museum of local history in Llangollen and to provide archive space for artefacts, maps, documents and photographs relevant to Llangollen and the surrounding area and to make those items available to the public, either through a handling archive or through access to the original items, for education and research.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT MUSEUM OF LOCAL HISTORY IN LLANGOLLEN.

Area of benefit: IN LLANGOLLEN.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the museum achieved a net surplus of £507 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £14,521. The organization relies heavily on grant funding, which constituted 96% of turnover, and has no investment policy. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £10,000, which is currently exceeded by the actual unrestricted reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “The Llangollen Museum Sustainability Programme, including the website rebuild, was made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Th…” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pam Taylorchair
• Darrel Blades
• Gillian Smith
• JEANETTE ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kerrison Griffiths
• MARGARET JONES
• PETER JONES
• SUZANNE EVANS

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

Operates in: Denbighshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED.

• LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED income £1.5m
• KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND income £218k
• CYNON VALLEY MUSEUM TRUST income £165k
• THE LLANGOLLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL EISTEDDFOD LIMITED income £1.5m
• NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES income £49.2m
• BRISTOL MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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