THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LABOUR HISTORY

Registered charity 295260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEOPLE'S HISTORY MUSEUM

The People's History Museum is the national museum of democracy. We are the only museum dedicated to telling the story of the development of democracy in Britain. We engage, inspire and inform all audiences by showing that 'there have always been ideas worth fighting for'.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial year was extremely challenging, resulting in a forecast deficit driven by lower visitor numbers, inflationary cost pressures, and frozen funding levels. Despite these pressures, the trustees confirm that the charity's assets are sufficient to fulfil its obligations and the auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Slade & Cooper Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02041438
• Trading subsidiary: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LABOUR HISTORY TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02526352

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Clare Barlow — Director (source)
• Becky Peters — Director (interim) (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SILCOCKS, Graeme David — director, appointed 24/07/2026on trustee list
• EVANS, David Richard, Lord — director, appointed 27/02/2026on trustee list
• CORNELIUS, Anna — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• PEACE, Andrea — director, appointed 27/06/2024on trustee list
• GARVEY, Dermot Martin — director, appointed 10/05/2024on trustee list
• TETTEH, Nathaniel Djangmah, Cllr — director, appointed 10/11/2023on trustee list
• LUCKIN, David Joshua — director, appointed 12/11/2021on trustee list
• QUINEY, Matilda — director, appointed 14/05/2021on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Susannah — director, appointed 06/11/2020on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Victoria Mary — director, appointed 10/12/2019on trustee list
• DONOGHUE, Bernard Michael — director, appointed 27/04/2018on trustee list
• CARBERRY, Kay — director, appointed 11/04/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Peace
• Anna Cornelius · trustee of 1 other charity
• BERNARD DONOGHUE · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Luckin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dermot Garvey
• Graeme David Silcocks
• KAY CARBERRY
• Lord David Richard Evans
• Matilda Quiney
• Nathaniel Tetteh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susannah Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Phillips

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

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 MIGRATION MUSEUM PROJECT.

• MIGRATION MUSEUM PROJECT income £1.8m
• NATIONAL JUSTICE MUSEUM income £1.8m
• NATIONAL EMERGENCY SERVICES MUSEUM income £287k
• THE BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM TRUST income £10.8m
• MUSEUM OF LONDON income £128.5m
• THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM income £9.6m

Side by side with its peers

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