THE BRITISH MUSEUM FRIENDS — grant history

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Latest income

£6.9m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£4.9m

Accounts grants total

£4.9m

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 (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
up	The British Museum	£62k	£4.8m
not listed	THE BRITISH MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED	£4.5m	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The British Museum	FY2025	£4.8m	Unrestricted grant
The British Museum	FY2025	£57k	Contribution towards the Museum’s Print & Drawings department
The British Museum	FY2025	£4k	Appeal towards Scientific Research equipment
The British Museum	FY2025	£1k	Contribution towards the Museum's research of the collection
The British Museum Trust	FY2024	£4.5m	Contribution towards the Museum’s masterplan
The British Museum	FY2024	£62k	Appeal towards Scientific Research equipment
The British Museum	FY2024	£5k	Contribution towards the Museum’s Greece and Rome department
The British Museum	FY2024	£2k	Contribution towards the Museum’s research of the collection
The British Museum Trust	FY2023	£7.5m	Contribution towards the British Museum’s masterplan
The British Museum	FY2023	£24k	Appeal in memory of Ian Jenkins, to support the Greece and Rome department
The British Museum	FY2023	£2k	Contribution towards preserving the collection
The British Museum	FY2023	£2k	Contribution towards the Museum’s research of the collection
The British Museum	FY2022	£7.0m	Contribution towards the Capital Programme
The British Museum	FY2022	£23k	Appeal in memory of Ian Jenkins, to support the Greece & Rome department
The British Museum	FY2022	£3k	Contribution towards the Museum’s research of the collection
The British Museum	FY2022	£1k	Contribution towards preserving the collection

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 4862000 vs reference 4862000 (0.0% 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.