Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

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:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • 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
31/03/23£259£342£-83n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£376£400£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£402£376£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£294£382£-88n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£361£398£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£473£460£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£238£306£-69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£284£384£-100n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£455£464£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£418£602£-184n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£489£580£-91n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£298£345£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£293£385£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£318£348£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£334£354£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£585£376£209£86£2,643£2,57182.290
31/03/07£862£656£206£69£2,447£1,92735.280
31/03/06£408£304£104n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£277£286£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£301£207£94n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 31 years

www.torquaymuseum.org

enquiries@torquaymuseum.org

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UN SDGs
?
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 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
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 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
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: 31-69
  • ABIGAIL CLARE SMITH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Student & Reception/Admin Support
  • CAROLINE KATHERINE SKELTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Student
  • CLARE MARY HOWE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Exhibitions Coordinator
  • DAVID GEOFFREY NORMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • NICOLE JEANNE AMIL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Councillor
  • NICHOLAS TALBOT POWE (Chair) Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • SIMON GERARD CRABTREE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
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

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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