The Food Museum

Registered charity 293033 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUSEUM OF EAST ANGLIAN LIFE

Museum of rural life and educational and training centre

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £381,085 for the year, with total income rising to £2,062,815 from £1,739,192 in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £277,019, well above the stated policy target of £125,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sheila Dillon — Patron (source)
• Clare, Countess of Euston — Patron (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• ACE — “We thank our funders and sponsors for the support that they give us: ACE” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Listerchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Christine Harrison
• Bernadine May Farrell
• Dr Clare Katharine Barlow
• Haley Bell
• Jennifer Holly Cousins
• Jon Howard Brighton
• Jonathan Mark Pattle
• Laura Elizabeth Pryke
• Melissa Anne Patricia Strauss
• Paul Edward Coppin
• Simon Kenneth Hooton
• VANESSA TREVELYAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• William David Andrew Seaman

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

Operates in: Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND.

• KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND income £218k
• STATFOLD NARROW GAUGE MUSEUM TRUST LTD income £3.2m
• THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM income £4.8m
• BISHOPDOWN FARM COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL AND FARM FRIENDS income £198k
• FOUNTAINS OF KNOWLEDGE income £1.1m
• MANOR FARM PRE-SCHOOL income £217k

Side by side with its peers

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