ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSEUMS — grant history

Registered charity 1082215 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.6m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£725k

Accounts grants total

£727k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (40 grantees)
Education/training (39 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (29 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (9 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (6 grantees)
Recreation (5 grantees)
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (3 grantees)
Animals (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
Hampshire (3 grantees)
Devon (3 grantees)
West Sussex (3 grantees)
Kent (2 grantees)
Richmond Upon Thames (2 grantees)
Somerset (2 grantees)
East Riding Of Yorkshire (2 grantees)
Essex (2 grantees)
Cambridgeshire (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Bowes Museum	FY2025	£55k	Connected Communities Round 3
Doncaster	FY2025	£53k	Connected Communities Round 3
Sunderland Culture	FY2025	£48k	Connected Communities Round 3
Wolverhampton Arts and Culture	FY2025	£44k	Connected Communities Round 3
Ushaw Historic House, Chapel, and Gardens	FY2025	£41k	Connected Communities Round 3
Signal Media	FY2025	£40k	Connected Communities Round 3
Peckover House and Gardens NT	FY2025	£40k	Connected Communities Round 3
Powell Cotton Trust	FY2025	£38k	Connected Communities Round 3
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection	FY2025	£30k	Connected Communities Round 3
The Jazz Centre	FY2025	£20k	Museum Fundamentals
Wycombe Museum	FY2025	£19k	Museum Fundamentals
Museum of the Order of St John	FY2025	£19k	Museum Fundamentals
Torquay Museum	FY2025	£18k	Museum Fundamentals
Museum of Cornish Life	FY2025	£15k	Museum Fundamentals
Dacorum Heritage	FY2025	£15k	Museum Fundamentals
The Long Shop Museum	FY2025	£14k	Museum Fundamentals
Edinburgh Printmakers	FY2025	£13k	Museum Fundamentals
Museum of Army Music	FY2025	£11k	Museum Fundamentals
Britten Pears Arts Museum	FY2025	£11k	Museum Fundamentals
Elgin Museum/the Moray Society	FY2025	£11k	Museum Fundamentals
The Green Howards Museum	FY2025	£10k	Museum Fundamentals
Cyfarthfa Castle	FY2025	£10k	Museum Fundamentals
Congleton Museum	FY2025	£10k	Museum Fundamentals
Brora Museum	FY2025	£9k	Museum Fundamentals
Dr Jenners House	FY2025	£9k	Museum Fundamentals
Eskdale Mill	FY2025	£8k	Museum Fundamentals
Stanley Spencer Gallery	FY2025	£8k	Museum Fundamentals
Avoncroft Museum	FY2025	£8k	Museum Fundamentals
Oriel Mon	FY2025	£4k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Greenfield Valley Museum	FY2025	£4k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Firing Line Museum of the Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Royal Welsh	FY2025	£4k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Amgueddfa Torfaen Museum	FY2025	£4k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Museum of Policing in Devon & Cornwall	FY2025	£4k	Museum Fundamentals
Hay Castle Trust	FY2025	£4k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Chawton House	FY2025	£3k	Museum Fundamentals
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Preservation Co. Ltd	FY2025	£3k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Glasgow Print Studio	FY2025	£3k	Museum Fundamentals
The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum	FY2025	£3k	Museum Fundamentals
Corinium Museum	FY2025	£3k	Museum Fundamentals
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery	FY2025	£3k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre	FY2025	£3k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Museum of Cardiff	FY2025	£3k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
The Judges’s Lodging	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Menai Bridge Community Heritage Trust	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Museum of Welsh Cricket	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Llandudno Museum	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Tenby Museum & Art Gallery	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Nantgarw China Works Museum	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Pontypridd Museum	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Llandovery Heritage CIO	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Mold and Buckley Museum & Library	FY2025	£2k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Internal Fire Museum of Power	FY2025	£1k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Torfaen Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Hertford Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
The Whithorn Trust	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
City of Norwich Aviation Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Walthamstow Pumphouse	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Headstone Manor	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Charles Burrell Museum, Thetford	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Crewe Heritage Trust	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Kent Mining Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Hundred Heroines	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Maryport Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Deaf History Archive Scotland	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
RAF Snaith Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Moor Pool Heritage Trust	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Emery Walker Trust	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Tewkesbury Museum	FY2025	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit
Museum of Land Speed	FY2025	£1k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Parc Howard	FY2025	£1k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Carmarthenshire Museums	FY2025	£1k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Dylan Thomas Boathouse	FY2025	£1k	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Soldiers of Shropshire	FY2025	£904	Museum Fundamentals
CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
West Highland Museum	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
Crich National Tramway Museum	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
Carisbrooke Castle Museum	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
Army Flying Museum	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
Cromarty Courthouse Museum	FY2025	£350	AIM Training Grants
Brighton Toy and Model Museum	FY2025	£275	AIM Training Grants
Florence Nightingale Museum	FY2025	£265	AIM Training Grants
The Mixed Museum	FY2025	£220	AIM Training Grants
Royal Anglican Regimental Museum	FY2025	£220	AIM Training Grants
REME	FY2025	£220	AIM Training Grants
Stourbridge Glass Museum (Volunteer Place)	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Wycombe Museum	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Freelancer, Curator at Large	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Royston Museum	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Arnos Vale Cemetery	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Chiltern Open Air Museum	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
David Parr House	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Holst Victorian House	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Bow Street Museum of Crime & Justice	FY2025	£175	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Trowbridge Museum	FY2025	£165	AIM National Conference Bursaries
The Weald & Downland Living Museum	FY2025	£160	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Cowdray Heritage Trust	FY2025	£10	AIM National Conference Bursaries
Knighton Museum & Gallery Trust	FY2025	£0	Wales Contactless Donation Box Grant
Connected Communities	FY2024	£330k	Grants to projects seeking to improve community connections through volunteering and reducing loneliness.
New Stories New Audiences Round 3	FY2024	£190k	Grants to member museums to increase and widen audiences and widen participation.
Pilgrim Trust Conservation Grants (Collections Care Audit, Collections Care and Remedial Conservation)	FY2024	£119k	Grants to member museums for collections care audits, care improvements, and remedial conservation.
Wales ReCollections	FY2024	£38k	Grants to support museums in Wales with inclusivity projects funded by the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan.
NSNA Uplift Grants R3.5	FY2024	£33k	Legacy uplift grants for previously funded New Stories New Audiences projects.
AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Grants	FY2024	£29k	Grants to museums with decorative and fine art collections to recover from pandemic effects.
AIM Training Grants	FY2024	£15k	Grants to support member organisations' training needs, including conference bursaries.
Conwy Culture Centre	FY2023	£94k	Grants awarded in Wales (Re:Collections)
Wolverhampton Arts & Culture	FY2023	£94k	Connected Communities
Peckover House & Gardens	FY2023	£81k	Connected Communities
Y Gaer Museum, Art Gallery & Library, Powys	FY2023	£57k	Grants awarded in Wales (Re:Collections)
Powell Cotton Trust	FY2023	£57k	Connected Communities
Ceredigion Museum	FY2023	£54k	Grants awarded in Wales (Re:Collections)
Bowes Museum	FY2023	£54k	Connected Communities
Barnsley Museums & Heritage Doncaster	FY2023	£50k	Connected Communities
Museum of Royal Worcester	FY2023	£15k	New Stories New Audiences
Royal Engineers Museum	FY2023	£15k	New Stories New Audiences
St George’s Hospital Medical School	FY2023	£15k	New Stories New Audiences
The Mixed Museum	FY2023	£15k	New Stories New Audiences
Wiltshire Museum	FY2023	£14k	New Stories New Audiences
Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum of Primitive Methodism	FY2023	£14k	New Stories New Audiences
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation	FY2023	£12k	New Stories New Audiences
Ledbury Places – The Heritage Centre	FY2023	£12k	New Stories New Audiences
Hundred Heroines	FY2023	£11k	New Stories New Audiences
Turner’s House Trust	FY2023	£10k	New Stories New Audiences
The Scottish Crannog Centre	FY2023	£10k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
The Whithorn Trust, Scotland	FY2023	£10k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Stromness Museum (Orkney Natural History Society Museum)	FY2023	£10k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Foxfield Light Railway Society	FY2023	£10k	New Stories New Audiences
Groundwork South and North Tyneside	FY2023	£9k	New Stories New Audiences
Teign Heritage	FY2023	£9k	New Stories New Audiences
The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester	FY2023	£8k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Southwest	FY2023	£8k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Malton Museum	FY2023	£8k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Ushaw Historic House and Gardens	FY2023	£8k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire	FY2023	£8k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Bawdsey Radar Trust	FY2023	£7k	New Stories New Audiences
Totnes Museum	FY2023	£6k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Wales	FY2023	£6k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Spring 2023
The StainedGlass Museum, Cambridgeshire	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Spring 2023
The Apsley Paper Trail/ Frogmore Paper Mill	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Cowper & Newton Museum	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Radstock Museum	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Scotland	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Braintree District Museum Trust	FY2023	£5k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Comunn Eachdraidh Nis	FY2023	£5k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Letchworth	FY2023	£5k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Groam House Museum, London	FY2023	£4k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Dulwich Picture Gallery	FY2023	£4k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
The Armitt Library and Museum Centre	FY2023	£4k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
The Old Operating Theatre, London	FY2023	£4k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Elizabeth Gaskells House	FY2023	£4k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Nantgarw China Works Museum	FY2023	£3k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Epping Forest District Museum, London	FY2023	£3k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath	FY2023	£3k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Frogmore Paper Mill	FY2023	£3k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£3k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Thames Valley Omnibus Trust	FY2023	£2k	AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Round 2 Grants
Salcombe Maritime Museum, Devon	FY2023	£2k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Thames Valley & Great Western Omnibus Trust, Berkshire, Southeast and Devon, Southwest	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Sidney Sime Gallery, Surrey, Southeast	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
The Royal Irish Regiment Museum, Northern Ireland	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
West Highland Museum, Scotland	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Three Rivers Museum, Hertfordshire	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
King Edward Mine Museum, Cornwall, Southwest	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Caerphilly Winding House Museum Trust, Wales	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Brixham, Devon	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Museum of Human Diseases, London	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Brunel Museum, London	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
David Parr House, Cambridgeshire	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
REME, Wiltshire	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Send & Ripley Historical Society, Surrey	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Clyne Heritage Society, Scotland	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Hospital of William Browne, Lincolnshire	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Stamford Town Council, Lincolnshire	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
Dunkeld Archives, Chapter House Museum	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Remedial Conservation Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Woodhall	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Spring 2023
St Ives Museum, Cornwall, Southwest	FY2023	£1k	Pilgrim Trust Collection Care Audit Grants Awarded Autumn 2023
Beth Shalom Ltd	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
City of Norwich Aviation Museum Limited	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Stourbridge Glass Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Trimontium Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Keswick Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
West Highland Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
The Keep Military Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Yorkshire Museum of Farming	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Petersfield Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Elizabeth Gaskells House	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Pilsudski Institute of London	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Court Barn – A Museum of Craft & Design	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Maid of the Loch	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
We are the Minories	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
David Parr House	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Holst Victorian House	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Tring Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Biggin Hill Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Grampian Transport Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
The Peace Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Insurance Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Peoples History Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Coldharbour Mill Trust	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Creswell Crags Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Welshpool & Llanfail Railway	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Brunel Museum	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
The Sussex Yeomanry Museum Trust	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
MV Balmoral	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Transport Museum Wythall	FY2023	£300	AIM Training Grants
Foundling Museum	FY2023	£288	AIM Training Grants
Jacobite Heritage Museum	FY2023	£250	AIM Training Grants
Crich Tramway Village	FY2023	£190	AIM Training Grants
Glenesk Folk Museum	FY2023	£150	AIM Training Grants
Army Flying Museum	FY2023	£118	AIM Training Grants
Eskdale Mill	FY2023	£108	AIM Training Grants
The Centre for Computing History	FY2023	£91	AIM Training Grants
Frogmore Paper Mill	FY2023	£60	AIM Training Grants

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 725173 vs reference 727453 (0.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.