DERBY MUSEUMS

Registered charity 1149710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Museum services

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £784,950 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by financial pressures from decreased public revenue funding and increased costs. Despite this loss, unrestricted reserves stood at £983,509, which the trustees confirm meets their stated policy target of covering four months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Derby Museums (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Derby City Council — “logo-derby-city-council” (source page)
• English Heritage — “English_made_possible_logo_black_JPEG” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 22.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Lindsey
• Amanda Ellse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew James Taylor
• Andy Findlay
• Charlotte Holmes
• Clare Foyle
• Dr Kiron Griffin
• ELIZABETH JANE FOTHERGILL CBE
• Emily Claire Lonsdale
• Gerald Desmond Potter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamie Jordan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul James Hilsdon
• Professor Keith Andrew John McLay · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derby City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBY HIGH SCHOOL TRUST.

• DERBY HIGH SCHOOL TRUST income £10.2m
• ARTS DERBYSHIRE income £215k
• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k
• THE BRITISH MUSEUM FRIENDS income £6.9m
• BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST income £12.6m
• DERBY COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.