BARNSLEY MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 1164496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust is a Development Trust set up to raise funds and support Barnsley Museums which currently include: Cannon Hall, Worsbrough Mill, Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre and Experience Barnsley. Barnsley Museums are owned and operated by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and other properties may join the group in due course.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE AND ENGAGE WITH MUSEUMS AND RELATED SERVICES PARTICULARLY THOSE LOCATED WITHIN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA;(2) THE PROMOTION OF ART, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS IN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA SUCH AS EXPERIENCE BARNSLEY, CANNON HALL MUSEUM PARK AND GARDENS, WORSBOROUGH MILL AND COUNTRY PARK; ELSECAR HERITAGE CENTRE AND COOPER GALLERY; AND(3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEPROVIDED THAT SUCH PURPOSES SHALL BE OF AN EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE NATURE.PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED USES THE CHARITY COMMISSION MODEL CONSTITUTION FOR FOUNDATION CIOS WITH VARIANCES FROM THIS HIGHLIGHTED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £14,428 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £224,508 to £210,080. The trustees report that closing reserves stand at £210,080, with a stated minimum reserves policy target of £5,000. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily-Rose Gratton-Rayson
• Graham Michael Walker
• Hayley Allsopp · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Naseer Ahmed
• Milly Charlesworth-Constable
• Rachel Fielding
• Rose Mary Johnston
• Tracey Johnson

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 BRAINTREE DISTRICT MUSEUM TRUST.

• BRAINTREE DISTRICT MUSEUM TRUST income £451k
• BRISTOL MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £276k
• THE GUNNERSBURY MUSEUM AND PARK DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £2.5m
• THE BANBURY MUSEUM TRUST income £647k
• COOPER ART COLLECTION income £41k
• BARNSLEY THEATRE TRUST (1998) LIMITED income £491k

Side by side with its peers

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