BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST

Registered charity 1147014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS LTD

Latest income

£12.6m

Latest spending

£11.9m

Registered

2012

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

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

Total income

£12.6m

Total spending

£11.9m

Cost of raising funds

£170k

Reserves (reported)

£4.0m

Employees

161

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (18/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Anthony Simpson
Deborah Spence
Dr Louise Brooke-Smith
Jane Richardson
Robert James Cambray Alden
Stephen Hughes

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£12.6m	£11.9m
31/03/2024	£13.5m	£11.8m
31/03/2023	£11.3m	£12.8m
31/03/2022	£12.3m	£12.2m
31/03/2021	£10.5m	£11.2m

Common questions

Who funds BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION, THE HEADLEY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	FY2022	£125k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£97k
THE HEADLEY TRUST	FY2025	£94k

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	28/09/2023	£250k	"Laying the foundations for the transformation of Birmingham Museums Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/08/2020	£250k	"COVID19: Birmingham Museums Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/09/2015	£100k	"Customer relationship management: understanding our data, engaging audiences, sustaining our heritage"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/09/2014	£389k	"Representing Birmingham"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/12/2013	£95k	"The Spitfire Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/10/2013	£10k	"Blakesley Hall & Museum of the Jewellery Quarter: First World War projects"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/08/2013	£97k	"Acquisition of portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/03/2013	£50k	"Building the Trust: a Framework for Transformation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	07/06/2012	£675k	"Portrait of Dr John Ash by Sir Joshua Reynolds"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/03/2012	£40k	"Soho House Visitor Centre redevelopment project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/06/2011	£725k	"The Staffordshire Hoard Gallery"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/05/2011	£50k	"Children's Lives"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/05/2010	£398k	"Natural history knowledge, social history skills and other curatorial trainees"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/12/2008	£4.9m	"Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 20 Year Plan Phase 2 - BIRMINGHAM - A City in the Making"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/11/2008	£50k	"Matthew Boulton Bicentenary 2009"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/01/2008	£37k	"Home : A portrait of Birmingham - Vibrant Urban Villages"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/09/2007	£500k	"Weoley Castle Ruins"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	13/06/2006	£225k	"Portrait of James Watt by Thomas Lawrence"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	06/12/2005	£653k	"The Equiano Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/09/2004	£822k	"Connecting Histories"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/03/2004	£202k	"Ask the Audience"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/09/2003	£100k	"The Acquisition of a painting Desk Murder by R.B. Kitaj (b1932)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/09/2003	£49k	"VIBES! A History of Urban Music"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/09/2003	£22k	"Blackdrop"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/06/2003	£25k	"Connecting Identities"