THE BRITISH MOTORCYCLE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 509420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4970352 · Wikipedia · also known as BMCT, NATIONAL MOTOR CYCLE MUSEUM LTD, THE MOTOR CYCLE AT MERIDEN LIMITED, THE MOTOR CYCLE MUSEUM AT MERIDEN LIMITED

Assisting in the preservation of such British motorcycles as are of historic and scientific importance and providing for their display to the public.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE BRITISH MOTORCYCLE CHARITABLE TRUST IS TO ADVANCETHE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING AWARENESS,APPRECIATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACTOF THE BRITISH MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRY AND ITS HERITAGE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATIONOF THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSES WHICHARE NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES ANDTRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wychavon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a significant increase in net assets to £1,301,873, driven largely by the recovery of £154,543 from HSBC Bank following the misappropriation of funds by a former chairman. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £1,301,873 and holds substantial fixed assets, including heritage assets valued at £544,378 and investments at £625,439. The trustees and auditors confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lindley & Co. 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dennis James Frost
• JOHN FRANCIS RAYMOND HANDLEY
• Lewis Wiles Onions
• MICHAEL JACKSON
• MICHEAL PENN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin John Heckscher
• PETER JAMES WELLINGS

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with E B M CHARITABLE TRUST.

• E B M CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY HERITAGE TRUST income £5.7m
• BRITISH COMMERCIAL VEHICLE MUSEUM TRUST income £188k
• BRITISH MOTOR SPORTS TRAINING TRUST income £122k
• THE BASIL BROWN CHARITABLE TRUST income £81k
• THE BMTA TRUST income £226k

Side by side with its peers

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