DERBY MUSEUMS

Registered charity 1149710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£4.2m

Latest spending

£4.9m

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

£4.2m

Total spending

£4.9m

Cost of raising funds

£963k

Reserves (reported)

£984k

Employees

145

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

Trustees

Alan Lindsey
Amanda Ellse
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 2 other charities
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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£4.2m	£4.9m
31/03/2024	£3.3m	£4.8m
31/03/2023	£2.9m	£4.5m
31/03/2022	£7.1m	£6.7m
31/03/2021	£7.2m	£2.0m

Common questions

Who funds DERBY MUSEUMS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DERBY MUSEUMS as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE HEADLEY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	FY2022	£170k
DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2025	£11k
DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2024	£11k
THE HEADLEY TRUST	FY2023	£10k

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	15/02/2024	£120k	"Derby?s Egypt ? Reinterpreting With and for the City"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/08/2023	£457k	"Derby Museums: Resilience, Relevance and Recovery"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	23/06/2023	£250k	"#DYC Reimagining with the City"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	24/06/2022	£208k	"Derby Yaadaan Archive"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/03/2017	£1.1m	"Celebrating the past and securing the future of Derby Museums"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/04/2016	£166k	"Joseph Wright's Arkwright's Mills and Willersley Castle"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/04/2015	£10.7m	"Derby Silk Mill - Museum of Making"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/03/2013	£100k	"Francis and Mary Hurt - Wright Inspiration for our Times"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/11/2005	£564k	"The Soldiers' Story"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/06/2003	£1000k	"Acquisition of 'Richard Arkwright Junior'"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/01/2002	£9k	"Jubilations - How Derby's People Celebrate"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	10/09/2001	£700k	"Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Moonlight' by Joseph Wright of Derby - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/12/1998	£357k	"Ceramics Gallery"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/12/1997	£9k	"J R Smith Paintings - Acquisition"