THE CHARLES BURRELL MUSEUM

Registered charity 802250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Active Steam Engine Museum and Educational Facility preserving and promoting the historic industrial past of the Charles Burrell Company of Thetford in Norfolk. 100% run by volunteers and financed from grants and donations and also the revenue generated from an in house shop, cafe and outside demonstrations of our steam traction engines.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN THETFORD FOR THE EXHIBITION OF STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER MACHINES BUILT BY CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS LIMITED AND MATERIALS RELATING THERETO AND MAKING THE COLLECTION AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£16k
Latest spending
£16k
Registered
1989

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Trustees · trustee networks

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Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£16k£16k
31/03/2024£12k£9k
31/03/2023£11k£9k
31/03/2022£17k£16k
31/03/2021£18k£19k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund16/03/2021£6k"NL20: The Charles Burrell Museum: Preserving heritage for Thetford. A museum for the whole community."
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/01/1997£16k"Burrell Engine"