LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS — grant history

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Latest income

£218k

Grants listed (FY2026)

Listed grants total

£200k

Accounts grants total

£200k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2026 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Friends run an active programme of meetings and visits for members and publish an award-winning three-monthly magazine with news of the Museum and its Friends and a wide range of other, transport-related, articles.

Summarised from ltmuseumfriends.co.uk on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (2 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)
Throughout London (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2025 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2025	FY2026
new	Finchley bus garage war memorial	—	£12k
down	LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED	£343k	£66k
not listed	THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED	£6k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
London Transport Museum	FY2026	£66k	Support of the Museum’s community activities
London Transport Museum	FY2026	£47k	Support for additional curatorial technicians
London Transport Museum	FY2026	£44k	Heritage electric trains, including Q-stock
London Transport Museum	FY2026	£24k	Heritage bus restoration and operations
Finchley bus garage war memorial	FY2026	£12k	Restoration of the Cravens Carriage 3-car unit
Finchley bus garage war memorial	FY2026	£5k	Finchley bus garage war memorial
London Transport Museum	FY2026	£2k	Restoration of vehicles in the Covent Garden Museum
London Transport Museum	FY2025	£343k	Support for Museum projects including Heritage trains, Heritage bus restoration, Restoration of vehicles in the Covent Garden Museum, Support of the Museum’s community activities, Support for additional curatorial technicians
London Bus Preservation Trust	FY2025	£6k	Grant
London Transport Museum	FY2024	£79k	Grants to the London Transport Museum
London Transport Museum	FY2024	£68k	Restricted funds - Heritage trains, including Q-stock
London Metropolitan Archives	FY2024	£8k	Grant to the London Metropolitan Archives
London Transport Museum	FY2023	£44k	Artefact purchases, conservation and education projects
London Metropolitan Archives	FY2023	£8k	Digitisation of the minute books of the London General Omnibus Company
London Transport Museum	FY2022	£106k	Grants to the London Transport Museum

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 199801 vs reference 199801 (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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].