LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS — grant history

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Latest income

£427k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£349k

Accounts grants total

£349k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 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: 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
new	THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED	—	£6k
up	LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED	£79k	£343k
not listed	London Metropolitan Archives	£8k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
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 348601 vs reference 348601 (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.