THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM

Registered charity 310288 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5878811 · Wikipedia · also known as THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM OF ART

Provision and operation of museum of fine and decorative arts with at its heart the collection of Sir William Holburne. The Holburne Museum stages international exhibitions and other projects involving fine and decorative arts of all periods and is admired for its dynamic displays, vibrant learning and community engagement programme and innovative interpretation.

Objects

A) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN THE CITY OF BATH FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF A COLLECTION, (THE "ART COLLECTION") OF SPECIMENS OF THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS AND CRAFTS. B) THE EXTENSION, ENHANCEMENT, CONSERVATION, STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ART COLLECTION; AND C) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN ART AND ALLIED SUBJECTS AND OF THE APPRECIATION OF ART.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 45% to £3,732,963, driven largely by restricted funds for the completed Schroder Gallery project. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £2,165,470, which the charity considers sufficient to cover 3-6 months of running costs, while total net assets rose to £15.3 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 29/12/2024, 59 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 14/12/2023, 44 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 14/11/2022, 14 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bloomberg Philanthropies — “This website has been developed with support from Bloomberg Philanthopies through the Digital Accelerator Programme.” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Public Funders The National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)
• The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust — “Trusts and Foundations The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM TRUST COMPANY

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHERBORNE MUSEUM.

• SHERBORNE MUSEUM income £62k
• THE BOWES MUSEUM income £4.2m
• HARROGATE ARTS AND MERCER GALLERY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £49k
• THE HOLLYCOMBE WORKING STEAM MUSEUM LIMITED income £322k
• THE HERTFORD MUSEUM CHARITY income £276k
• WALLINGFORD MUSEUM income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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