THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM

Registered charity 237902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N A M

To interpret and communicate the objects in the Museum's care in ways which inspire, provide enjoyment and provoke questions from the NAM's users.By so doing show the impact of the British Army on the making of Britain from the Middle Ages to the present day and on the role of Britain in the world.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND EXHIBITING OBJECTS AND RECORDS RELATING TO THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF OUR ARMY.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £919,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £690,000 write-off of heritage assets. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell to £74,000, which is below the stated policy target of £1,000,000, though the museum remains dependent on Grant-in-Aid funding from the Ministry of Defence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by The Comptroller and Auditor General / National Audit Office. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The National Army Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Justin Maciejewski — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 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 ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIR SIMON MAYALLchair
• Christopher Finney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr James Naylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr PAUL SCHREIER
• LORD ANDREW ROBERTS OF BELGRAVIA · trustee of 3 other charities
• Lt General Sir George Norton
• Neil Johnson
• Paul Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Ali Ansari
• Professor Helen Parr
• Sue Mckenzie
• Timothy Cooke

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £25k
• MUSEUM OF ARMY MUSIC income £57k
• YORK ARMY MUSEUM income £166k
• ARMY FLYING MUSEUM LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM income £27k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM income £748k

Side by side with its peers

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