WORCESTERSHIRE HERITAGE, ART AND MUSEUMS

Registered charity 1197448 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To encourage and support public participation with the work of Worcester Art Gallery & Museum, The Commandery and Worcestershire County Museum through advocacy, publicity and the granting of donations and gifts for the purposes of developing the collections and furthering the work and activities of the museums.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF ART, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE AND ENGAGE WITH MUSEUMS AND RELATED SERVICES OPERATED BY MUSEUMS WORCESTERSHIRE.

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

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

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £66,825 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with free unrestricted reserves standing at £25,129. This reserve level is significantly above the charity's stated policy target of holding between £800 and £1,500. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which reported no material matters requiring attention.

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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Art Fund — “Worcestershire Heritage, Art & Museums Charity led the campaign to purchase the artworks, with support from Art Fund, the Arts Council Engla…” (source page)
• Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund — “Worcestershire Heritage, Art & Museums Charity led the campaign to purchase the artworks, with support from Art Fund, the Arts Council Engla…” (source page)
• Worcester City Council — “The Commandery is very grateful to the following for their financial support of Worcester’s Civil War Story Worcester City Council Heritage …” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “The Commandery is very grateful to the following for their financial support of Worcester’s Civil War Story Worcester City Council Heritage …” (source page)
• Arts Council England — “The Commandery is very grateful to the following for their financial support of Worcester’s Civil War Story Worcester City Council Heritage …” (source page)
• Worcestershire County Council — “The Commandery is very grateful to the following for their financial support of Worcester’s Civil War Story Worcester City Council Heritage …” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Jane Naisbittchair
• IAIN ROSS RUTHERFORD
• Natasha Ruth Wilcockson
• Timothy John Daniel
• Victoria Jean Osborne

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTER THEATRES CHARITABLE TRUST LTD.

• WORCESTER THEATRES CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £2.6m
• CULTURE WARRINGTON income £4.5m
• WYCOMBE HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST income £246k
• VALE AND DOWNLAND MUSEUM (WANTAGE) income £228k
• DEVIZES ASSIZE COURT TRUST income £59k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY, CORINIUM income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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