BEAMISH MUSEUM

Registered charity 1122366 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEAMISH MUSEUM LIMITED

Latest income
£19.1m
Latest spending
£18.4m
Registered
2008

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Total income
£19.1m
Total spending
£18.4m
Cost of raising funds
£5.6m
Reserves (reported)
£746k
Employees
504

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/01/2025£19.1m£18.4m
31/01/2024£16.0m£17.6m
31/01/2023£13.5m£14.1m
31/01/2022£12.1m£10.7m
31/01/2021£11.1m£10.7m

Common questions

Who funds BEAMISH MUSEUM?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BEAMISH MUSEUM as a grant recipient include THE REECE FOUNDATION, THE SIR TOM COWIE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/04/2014£11.6m"Remaking Beamish (KickstartGIA2020)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/11/2007£47k"Breathing Life into the Coffee Pot - restoration of an 1871 locomotive"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund06/03/2007£304k"The Lamp Cabin"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund13/03/2006£47k"Mining Memories"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/07/2003£2.1m"Regional Resource Centre (Phase 2)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/02/2003£48k"New Access Programme"