Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST 

To provide access to museums for audiences and participants within Birmingham and the West Midlands region and beyond, through the operation of museums with exhibitions, education, engagement and participation activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 12 years

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk

enquiries@birminghammuseums.org.uk

01213488000

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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£11,315£12,817£-1,502£1,480£4,540£2,2552.1131222
31/03/22£12,291£12,200£91£742£5,016£1,9241.9147180
31/03/21£10,461£11,199£-738£683£1,386£-2,081-2.2180346
31/03/20£11,503£12,727£-1,224£1,673£4,454£1,2071.12051,119
31/03/19£11,929£12,606£-677£1,814£6,308£1,7421.72051,000
31/03/18£12,036£11,811£225£1,517£4,372£-295-0.32050
31/03/17£10,900£11,810£-910£1,456£3,718£-26-02390
31/03/16£12,875£11,911£964£1,559£5,058£7140.72650
31/03/15£10,301£9,198£1,103£43£1,974£9461.22550
31/03/14£12,918£13,360£-442£1,634£3,779£3980.42860
31/03/13*£9,444£8,743£701£65£701£6250.92640

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 50%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 131 employees
  • 222 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2019 Overall excellence
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£3,766,188
Garfield Weston Foundation£590,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£362,000
The Pilgrim Trust£22,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Birmingham Museums Trust
£112,000 03/10/2023
Laying the foundations for the transformation of Birmingham Museums Trust
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Museums Trust
£0 07/12/2022
Redisplay of Ancient Civilizations Galleries at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Grant of £75,000 under DCMS Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund (round 14, grant ref. 21866). (WF ....more
DCMS - Investment funds
£46,490 31/05/2022
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Birmingham Museums Trust
£22,000 27/09/2021
14
The conservation of Birmingham’s Pre-Raphaelite Treasures: the Star of Bethlehem and the Holy Grail Tapestries
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£590,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£250,000 20/08/2020
COVID19: Birmingham Museums Trust
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,026,107 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - Birmingham Museums: Culture Recovery Fund
£1,872,750 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Birmingham Museums: Culture Recovery Fund - Round 2
£820,841 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - SSN Islamic Art and Material Culture
£61,000 30/11/2018
17
Specialist subject network- Islamic Art and Material Culture
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - NPO 2018-22: Band 3
£1,007,568 01/04/2018
11
National portfolio organisation- are leaders in their areas, with a collective responsibility to protect and develop our national arts and cultural ecology.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£200,000 18/01/2018
Minibrum
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Museums Trust
£192,000 04/12/2017
miniBrum (permanent gallery for children at ThinkTank, Birmingham Science Museum)
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - Major Partner Museums
£1,007,568 01/04/2017
11
Major Partner Museums- building the resilience of museums
DCMS - DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund
£75,000 01/04/2017
The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled ....more
Birmingham City Council - Heritage Week 2016
£10,000 23/03/2016
HERITAGE WEEK 2016; Arts and culture;
Birmingham City Council - Visualise Yay 16
£20,000 14/03/2016
VISUALISE YAY 16; Arts and culture;
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£100,000 30/09/2015
Customer relationship management: understanding our data, engaging audiences, sustaining our heritage
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£389,100 30/09/2014
Representing Birmingham
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£95,000 19/12/2013
The Spitfire Project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£10,000 28/10/2013
Blakesley Hall & Museum of the Jewellery Quarter: First World War projects
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Birmingham Museums Trust
£97,000 30/08/2013
Acquisition of portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-69
  • LIAM DARBON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Omnichannel Trading At Tate
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/04/2012, number: 1147014
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/08/2011, number: 07737797
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
11 returns made; AR13: 1 days late,
Main office

Birmingham Museum Trust
Museum & Art Gallery
Chamberlain Square
BIRMINGHAM
B3 3DH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND LIBRARIES IN BIRMINGHAM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND RELATED PROGRAMMES OF OUTREACH AND RESEARCH, FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE ARTS, HISTORY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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