Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 6

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 10

TORBAY MUSEUMS TRUST

Advancement of education by promoting the study of the Natural Sciences and Human History.Particular emphasis is placed on Natural History, Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Social and Local History and the Industrial and Decorative Arts.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
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
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

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		£259	£342	£-83	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22		£376	£400	£-24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/21		£402	£376	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/20		£294	£382	£-88	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/19		£361	£398	£-37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/18		£473	£460	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£238	£306	£-69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£284	£384	£-100	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£455	£464	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£418	£602	£-184	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£489	£580	£-91	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£298	£345	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£293	£385	£-92	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£318	£348	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£334	£354	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£585	£376	£209	£86	£2,643	£2,571	82.2	9	0
31/03/07		£862	£656	£206	£69	£2,447	£1,927	35.2	8	0
31/03/06		£408	£304	£104	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£277	£286	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£301	£207	£94	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years

www.torquaymuseum.org

enquiries@torquaymuseum.org

01803293975

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Torbay,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 volunteers

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

DCMS	£263,727
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£95,400
Wolfson Foundation	£0

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Torquay Museum
£0	07/12/2022	'Journey through the Ice Age – re-engaging communities with the Quaternary collection'. Grant of £125,000 under DCMS Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund (round 14, grant ref. 21866). ....more 'Journey through the Ice Age – re-engaging communities with the Quaternary collection'. Grant of £125,000 under DCMS Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund (round 14, grant ref. 21866). (WF contributing 50% of total grant of £250,000).
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£83,727	15/11/2021	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£60,000	22/10/2021	To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Torbay Museums Trust
£50,000	11/06/2020	Covid 19 Torbay Museums Trust
DCMS - Building resilience
£120,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Torbay Museums Trust
£45,400	03/07/2019	Celebrating Torquay Museum 175: Inspiring Discovery in Torbay
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Torbay Museums Trust
£8,700	12/09/2018	Ipplepen: Rethinking the Romans in Devon
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Torbay Museums Trust
£8,300	14/06/2017	The Lost City of Z' interpreting Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Torbay Museums Trust
£100,000	19/03/2014	Torquay Museum transition project

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-72

CLARE MARY HOWE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Exhibitions Coordinator

ABIGAIL CLARE SMITH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Student & Reception/Admin Support

CAROLINE KATHERINE SKELTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Student

DAVID GEOFFREY NORMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: TORQUAY MUSEUM SOCIETY CIO,

NICOLE JEANNE AMIL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Councillor

SIMON GERARD CRABTREE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: TORQUAY MUSEUM SOCIETY CIO,

ANDREW COOPER (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Television Producer, Other trusteeship: DARTMOOR TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/08/1993, number: 1025390
Registered at Companies House on 13/11/1992, number: 02764633

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late,

Main office

TORQUAY MUSEUM
529 BABBACOMBE ROAD
TORQUAY
TQ1 1HG

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE STUDY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMAN HISTORY, BY ACQUIRING, HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND CONSERVING, RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON NATURAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY, SOCIAL AND LOCAL HISTORY, AND THE INDUSTRIAL AND DECORATIVE ARTS, AS DEFINED BY THE MUSEUM'S ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL POLICIES, WITH FURTHER EMPHASIS BEING GIVEN TO SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF DEVON AND BY ESTABLISHING, ACQUIRING, MANAGING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LIBRARIES AND OTHER PLACES WHERE SUCH PURPOSES MAY BE ACHIEVED AND WHERE EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND ENQUIRY AND THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF RELEVANT VIEWS AND INFORMATION MAY HAPPEN

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE DEVON

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