Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +8
    Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

    BARNSLEY MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE TRUST 

    Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust is a Development Trust set up to raise funds and support Barnsley Museums which currently include: Cannon Hall, Worsbrough Mill, Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre and Experience Barnsley. Barnsley Museums are owned and operated by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and other properties may join the group in due course.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    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
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£265£147£118n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/22£234£130£104n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/21£192£148£44n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/20£61£86£-25n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/19£74£78£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/18£83£35£48£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£14£1£13£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 8 years

    www.bmht.org

    info@bmht.org

    01226787506

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Museums, parks, historical sites
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Makes Grants to Organisations
    Where it operates
    • Barnsley,
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind

    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£159,000
    DCMS£54,000
    The Foyle Foundation£30,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
    Co-Operative Group£6,687
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £1,040 21/10/2023
    We would like to turn a newly cleared woodland glade area into a fun place for families to enjoy, creating interactions through forest school workshops, volunteer sessions and local artist-made items.
    The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
    £30,000 28/04/2023
    towards Outside the box, to develop learning resources for schools and SEND pupils
    National Lottery Community Fund - A Space for change: Volunteering hub at Worsbrough
    £10,000 14/04/2023
    The funding will be used to engage volunteers of all ages in decorating and outdoor activities including improving their community room and taking part in traditional crafts activities. The project ....more
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Museums
    £10,000 08/12/2022
    Up the Swanee
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £10,000 18/08/2022
    Unbroken: Barnsley Collaborates & Commemorates
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £2,220 23/10/2021
    We want to make spaces at Worsbrough Country Park that the whole community can enjoy, including a base for the volunteers and a mud kitchen for children to enjoy creative play.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Feels Like Home
    £10,000 22/10/2021
    The funding will be used to expand the delivery of workshops to refugees and asylum seekers offering practical and emotional support ranging from language tuition to employment support and will also ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 18/12/2020
    Barnsley Museums Learning Service (Core Funding)
    DCMS - CRF20: Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £24,000 14/10/2020
    Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £30,000 29/09/2020
    "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £49,400 09/07/2020
    COVID19: Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £89,600 26/02/2020
    Routed in Barnsley
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £3,427 15/11/2019
    We want to bring volunteers together from the Worsbrough Community to help take care of the Country Park.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Action, Adventure and Discovery Trail
    £9,459 18/04/2019
    12
    The funding will allow the group to install play equipment at a local woodland park. This will be open to the whole community.
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £9,900 21/01/2019
    Barnsley Heritage Connects
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 16/05/2018
    Barnsley Museums Core Funding
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
    £3,582 29/11/2017
    We want to create a family trail to give families the chance to explore the outdoors in a safe environment and learn new things together.
    National Lottery Community Fund - 'Buns on the run'
    £10,000 22/11/2017
    12
    The group will deliver traditional bread making workshops, for people across the community to make healthy food whilst making new friends and developing skills, with the aim of addressing obesity, ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (7)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/11/2015, number: 1164496
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    7 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Barnsley Metropolitan Borough
    Council
    Town Hall
    Church Street
    BARNSLEY
    S70 2TA

    Objectives

    THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE AND ENGAGE WITH MUSEUMS AND RELATED SERVICES PARTICULARLY THOSE LOCATED WITHIN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA;(2) THE PROMOTION OF ART, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS IN THE BARNSLEY METROPOLITAN AREA SUCH AS EXPERIENCE BARNSLEY, CANNON HALL MUSEUM PARK AND GARDENS, WORSBOROUGH MILL AND COUNTRY PARK; ELSECAR HERITAGE CENTRE AND COOPER GALLERY; AND(3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEPROVIDED THAT SUCH PURPOSES SHALL BE OF AN EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE NATURE.PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED USES THE CHARITY COMMISSION MODEL CONSTITUTION FOR FOUNDATION CIOS WITH VARIANCES FROM THIS HIGHLIGHTED.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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