Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

THACKRAY MEDICAL MUSEUM COMPANY LIMITED 

The Thackray Museum is one of the UK's leading medical museums. This is the place to explore, discover and marvel at the exciting story of modern medicine. Find the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian Leeds, and wonder at the medical treatments and practices that were applied in the past.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 31 years

www.thackraymuseum.co.uk

info@thackraymuseum.org

01132444343

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,570£2,040£-470£198£5,260£5673.34160
31/03/22?£1,753£2,149£-397£158£5,730£7504.23862
31/12/20£2,081£1,240£841£31£6,128£7146.93038
31/12/19£4,383£1,502£2,881£86£5,286£70.13230
31/12/18£1,010£1,019£-9£172£2,405£941.12929
31/12/17*£972£1,025£-54£164£2,298£1351.6260
31/12/16£1,111£1,153£-42£158£2,352£1031.1270
31/12/15£923£936£-13£165£2,394£1061.4290
31/12/14£858£1,004£-146£220£2,407£881.1260
31/12/13£929£849£80£199£2,553£1472.1380
31/12/12£760£764£-4£201£2,473£1362.1300
31/12/11£666£746£-80£184£2,477£1372.2290
31/12/10£753£839£-87£207£2,557£2032.9310
31/12/09£799£828£-28£235£2,643£2463.6220
31/12/08?£559£578£-20£21£2,637£1903.9260
31/03/07*£495£646£-151£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£645£807£-162£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£527£621£-95£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£455£595£-140£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 20.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 11%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 41 employees
  • 60 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Leeds City,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£150,600
Wolfson Foundation£120,000
DCMS£87,300
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£30,000 28/11/2023
towards expanding and enhancing the activities of the formal learning department in 2024
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 22/10/2021
Thackray revenue support
DCMS - A Healthy Future for Thackray Medical Museum
£87,300 15/12/2020
A Healthy Future for Thackray Medical Museum
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Thackray Museum of Medicine
£120,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thackray Museum
£150,600 27/08/2020
COVID19: Thackray Museum
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 20/03/2020
A Healthy Future
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Thackray Medical Museum
£3,000 28/06/2019
Capital costs for Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Thackray Medical Museum
£3,000 28/06/2019
Capital costs for Environment/Conservation/Heritage
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - NPO 2018-22: Band 1
£221,885 01/04/2018
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National portfolio organisation- are leaders in their areas, with a collective responsibility to protect and develop our national arts and cultural ecology.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Thackray Medical Museum
£100,000 04/12/2017
Victorian operating theatre in redeveloped museum
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thackray Museum
£1,670,300 17/03/2015
A Healthy Future for Thackray Medical Museum
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-80
  • HANNAH FOX Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Museum Director
  • MICHELLE BARRY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Product And Development, Cybersecurity
  • NICOLE FOWLER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Cyber Security Director
  • NOSOBER LATIF Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of International Engagement
  • SAM DIXON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/01/1993, number: 1016169
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/12/1992, number: 02772412
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR17: 8 days late, AR07: 139 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

141 Beckett Street
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS9 7LN

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS RELATING TO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND PRODUCTS AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT A MUSEUM

Defined Area of Benefit:

LEEDS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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