THE NATIONAL HORSERACING MUSEUM

Registered charity 283656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote public interest in the preservation of all articles as are of historical or scientific interest in connection with racehorses and persons connected with racehorses. To enlarge the Museum's network of partnerships within the education, racing industry and museums sector to mutual benefit.

Objects

The Museum's objects are restricted specifically, only for the public benefit to promote public interest in the preservation of all articles as are of historical or scientific interest in connection with racehorses and persons and places connected with racehorses and the art of other sports generally, principally through the running of the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House, and to preserve and care for the heritage and buildings making up the Palace House complex and in furtherance of this object.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £25,360, which is significantly below the trustees' stated target of £350,000, representing a shortfall of £324,640. The group reported a net expenditure of £108,860 for the year, supported by a transfer of £200,000 from expendable endowment funds to unrestricted funds. Despite a slow decline in admissions income, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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 Horseracing Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Hon. Frances Stanley DL — Chairman of the Board (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); recorded price paid £3.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (43% 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: 23.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hon Frances Caroline Stanleychair
• Adam Signy
• David Allan Thorpe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hamid Amouzad Khalili
• John Henry Chatfeild-Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Johnny Eddis
• Jonathan Benson
• Michael Sutherill
• Nicholas Edward Francis Luck
• PAUL TAIANO · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Suffolk

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 National Horseracing College Limited.

• National Horseracing College Limited income £3.9m
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £2.5m
• THE NATIONAL PONY SOCIETY income £669k
• AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £34k
• MUSEUM OF BRANDS income £851k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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