BRANTWOOD (JOHN RUSKIN MEMORIAL TRUST)

Registered charity 504743 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRANTWOOD TRUST

To administer Brantwood as a permanent memorial to John Ruskin and as a museum, to which members of the public shall have access, containing collections of drawings, books and objects of interest connected with John Ruskin; and as a place of study and recreation for students, teachers and professors and such other members of the public as may from time to time be approved bythe Management Trustees

Objects

A) A PERMANENT MEMORIAL TO JOHN RUSKIN AS A PUBLIC MUSEUM. B) A PLACE OF STUDY AND RECREATION FOR MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES AND OTHER PLACES OF EDUCATION.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £601,091, while the trustees noted current financial pressures and a permanent reduction in visitor numbers, exploring avenues to ensure a viable future. The charity relies on substantial donations from its trustee, the Education Trust, to assist with cash flow, having received £360,000 in the year ended 31 December 2024. Despite these pressures, the trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Jane Gerran Robins
• Nichola Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR ROBERT ALWYN PETRIE HEWISON
• Professor Stuart Walker
• THE EDUCATION TRUST LTD
• THE HONOURABLE MRS CATHERINE GERRAN EDWARDS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WORDSWORTH TRUST.

• THE WORDSWORTH TRUST income £2.2m
• SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST 2018 income £5.6m
• HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £6.0m
• THE BRUNEL MUSEUM income £485k
• BRAINTREE DISTRICT MUSEUM TRUST income £451k
• BRISTOL MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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