NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED

Registered charity 519783 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Narberth Museum undertook the restoration of The Bonded Stores enabling the Trust to develop its educational and community work.The Museum provides permanent and temporary exhibitions, an education service, research facilities for local and family historians and a varied programme of talks and events.It continues to involve itself in the architectural heritage of the area.

Objects

(1)TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN AND AROUND NARBERTH AND OF WALES, THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND NARBERTH IN BUILDINGS (INCLUDING ANY STRUCTURE OR ERECTION, AND ANY PART OF A BUILDING AS SO DEFINED) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST AND IN PARTICULAR THE BONDED STORES, CHURCH STREET, NARBERTH.(2)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE IN AND AROUND NARBERTH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOREGOING BY (I) THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM TO COLLECT, DOCUMENT, PRESERVE, EXHIBIT AND INTERPRET MATERIAL, EVIDENCE AND ASSOCIATED INFORMATION PREDOMINANTLY OF LOCAL INTEREST FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND (II) THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE WITHIN THAT MUSEUM (AND ELSEWHERE) OF FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE IN AND AROUND NARBERTH TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR HISTORY, HERITAGE AND CULTURE.

Area of benefit: NARBERTH.

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

Registered contact address: Pembrokeshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£100k
Latest spending
£129k
Registered
1988
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £28,507 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,324,996 to £1,295,822. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by unrestricted funds of £168,790. The organization is subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material matters identified by the examiner.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: cover the risk of unseen emergencies or an unexpected need for funds for repairs or a short-term deficit in a cash budget (reserves figure: £169k)
“in order for the charity to be effective, Narberth Museum holds back some funds as reserves to cover the risk of unseen emergencies or an unexpected need for funds for repairs or a short-term deficit in a cash budget.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £13,834 — grants £13,834 (4); 14% of the £100,084 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £125,368 — grants £125,368 (1); 63% of the £197,572 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £5,091 — grants £5,091 (2); 7% of the £72,679 total gross income on the same return

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

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£100k£129k
31/03/2024£198k£242k
31/03/2023£73k£120k
31/03/2022£61k£113k
31/03/2021£86k£103k

Common questions

Is NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £28,507 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,324,996 to £1,295,822. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by unrestricted funds of £168,790. The organization is subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material matters identified by the examiner. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE FEDERATION OF MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES OF WALES, THE OAKDALE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FEDERATION OF MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES OF WALESFY2026£6k
THE OAKDALE TRUSTFY2025£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund08/06/2020£16k"COVID19 Narberth Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/06/2018£59k"Women of West Wales (WOWW) Project"
The National Lottery Community Fund16/12/2016£4kSharing stories, making friends
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/01/2016£72k"Narberth Museum - Securing the future"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/06/2014£9k"Letters from the Front: Learning from the past"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund18/03/2009£1.1m"Restoration Bonded Stores"

Funders of similar charities

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED£100k—0unclear—no doubt
NANTWICH MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED FY2025£145k—0above—no doubt
CONGLETON MUSEUM TRUST FY2025£30k—0unclear—no doubt
THE PEMBROKE DOCK HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED FY2025£96k—0unclear—no doubt
TENBY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY FY2025£93k—0unclear—no doubt
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery Limited FY2025£341k—0below—no doubt

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