Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BRISTOL MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT TRUST

To raise funds for Bristol Museums' and Bristol Archives' collections, historic buildings, learning and community activities, exhibitions, events and allied activities in order to conserve the collections and make them widely accessible.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£273£208£65n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£501£326£174£15£516£2579.402
30/09/21£128£191£-63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£209£80£129n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£225£116£110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£249£200£50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£218£234£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/16£219£244£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/15£306£213£93n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/14£177£121£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/13£37£108£-71n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/12£7£0£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/11£123£0£123n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 14 years
(16 years as a company)

www.bristolmuseums.org

beth.cutter@bristol.gov.uk

01179223576

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£37,000 20/09/2022
to continue the digitisation of audio collections including parts of the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Bristol Museums Development Trust
£10,000 25/09/2020
1
Conserving Bristol's cargo cranes
Quartet Community Foundation - Georgian House Museum project
£2,500 13/03/2018
Towards providing educational workshops at the Georgian House Museum for children aged 7-11.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-68
  • ANTHONY DEAN DYER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Councillor & Leader Of Bristol City Council
  • EDMUND JAMES THOMAS FAY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Librarian
  • ELEANOR AMY DENNEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Marketing Strategist
  • FIONA JANE WHISTON HALLWORTH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Education Management Consultant
  • HUW THOMAS JAMES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Policy Advisor
  • JOCELYN ORMOND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
  • JULIA TROW Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant
  • KAREN WHITE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Public Relations Director
  • NIGEL HARDY (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Accountant - Partner
  • PHILIP JAMES MURRAY WALKER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Of Culture & Creative Industries
  • SAMUEL MATTHEW ALVIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director - Energy
  • SIMON DAVID LESLIE FACE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/09/2010, number: 1137777
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/09/2008, number: 06685688
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE BRISTOL BOMFORD BEQUEST TRUST on 08/04/2020
Main office

BRISTOL MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
QUEENS ROAD
CLIFTON
BRISTOL
BS8 1RL

Objectives

(I) TO SUPPORT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE BUILDING, ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND ARCHIVES OF ARTEFACTS, ART, SPECIMENS, DOCUMENTS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED MATERIAL IN BRISTOL, INCLUDING THE COLLECTION, STORAGE, RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION OF ALL SUCH MATERIAL; AND(II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC (IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THOSE LIVING WITHIN THE GREATER BRISTOL AREA AND THOSE GEOGRAPHIC, ETHNIC AND DISABLED COMMUNITIES WHO DO NOT TRADITIONALLY ATTEND MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES) IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE PROVISION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE FACILITIES, COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, PUBLIC EVENTS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING IN DIGITAL FORM, AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT THE MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND ARCHIVES IN BRISTOL AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES OF BRISTOL AND ACROSS THE INTERNET.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRISTOL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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