IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 503717 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5359402 · Wikipedia

The principal activities of the Trust are the preservation of historic properties and the development and management, as an educational charity, of Museums relating to the industrial, social and economic history of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and related areas, with particular reference to the Industrial Revolution.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST SHALL BE TO PROMOTE:(A) THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION OF LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST AND AS REGARDS LANDS FOR THE PRESERVATION (SO FAR AS PRACTICABLE) OF THEIR NATURAL ASPECT FEATURES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE;(B) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OF NATIONAL INTEREST OR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST AND PLACES OF NATURAL INTEREST OR BEAUTY AND THE PROTECTION AND AUGMENTATION OF THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS AND PLACES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS;(C) THE PRESERVATION OF FURNITURE AND PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING NATIONAL OR HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST; AND(D) THE ACCESS TO AND ENJOYMENT OF SUCH BUILDINGS PLACES AND CHATTELS BY THE PUBLIC.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Telford and Wrekin, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported an unrestricted surplus of £1,257,992 for the year, though this included transfers from restricted and endowment funds to repay borrowing. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were in deficit by £1,198,900, and the Trust is heavily reliant on visitor income which has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. The Trustees are in advanced discussions to transfer the Trust's operations to a large heritage charity, which has led to a material uncertainty regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → material uncertainty (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (32% 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: 21.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BETH HELEN FOSTER
• Christopher Brook Walker
• Christopher Mark Pemberton · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Anthony Brammer
• Dr Elizabeth Nicholson
• Eleanor Catherine Appleby
• HOWARD TREVOR THORNE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jennifer Anne Francis
• Karen MacKenzie
• Michael Peter Kirk
• Rupert Kenyon-Slaney · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 FRIENDS OF THE IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM.

• FRIENDS OF THE IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM income £36k
• THE IRON BRIDGE TRUST income £380k
• THE GUNNERSBURY MUSEUM AND PARK DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £2.5m
• THE IHR TRUST income £195k
• THE STONEBRIDGE TRUST income £322k
• GODALMING MUSEUM TRUST income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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