The Food Museum

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

Latest income

£2.1m

Latest spending

£1.7m

Registered

1985

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£2.1m

Total spending

£1.7m

Cost of raising funds

£359k

Reserves (reported)

£277k

Employees

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

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

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

Operates in: Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Funders whose own accounts filings name The Food Museum as a grant recipient include THE HEADLEY TRUST, THE LINBURY TRUST.

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE HEADLEY TRUST	FY2023	£60k
THE LINBURY TRUST	FY2024	£50k

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/09/2023	£4.3m	"The Kitchen Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	10/08/2020	£49k	"COVID19: Museum of East Anglian Life"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	23/01/2020	£99k	"Restoration of Alton Watermill"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/07/2015	£48k	"Dining Through the Decades"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	13/03/2008	£2.2m	"A new Museum of East Anglian Life MEAL Phase 1"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/01/2006	£50k	"Towards a New Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/06/2004	£5k	"Museum Get Award To Hold Three Workshop Days At The Museum Where Community Groups And Members Of The Public Will Be Able To Observe A Blacks"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/01/2001	£5k	"For this charity to provide Gypsy/Traveller fair in June. This is a four day event aimed at uniting travellers with rural and urban communit"