Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Multiple Deficits: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION 

To advance education in, and to foster and encourage the preservation and better understanding of the material heritage of mankind and the environment for the public benefit by the promotion and development of museums and galleries and encouraging the involvementof the public. To establish and advance professional standards of those employed in museums and galleries.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • There are 14 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 but unrestricted reserves are available
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 61 years
(93 years as a company)

www.museumsassociation.org

info@museumsassociation.org

02075667800

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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£2,864£2,281£584£0£3,050£1,3877.321230
31/03/22£2,072£2,494£-422£0£2,858£1,6788.118217
31/03/21£2,401£1,724£678£0£3,408£1,82612.720250
31/03/20£2,171£2,341£-170£0£2,428£1,6488.421223
31/03/19£2,145£2,343£-198£0£2,847£1,8889.721210
31/03/18£2,274£2,474£-200£0£3,013£2,10910.2210
31/03/17£2,371£2,235£137£0£3,012£2,04611210
31/03/16£2,263£2,208£55£0£2,817£2,07711.3210
31/03/15£2,052£1,810£242£35£3,020£2,12114.1170
31/03/14£1,939£1,908£32£45£2,698£1,86211.7170
31/03/13£3,354£1,984£1,370£49£2,633£1,83211.1160
31/03/12£1,829£2,265£-435£35£1,386£6213.3160
31/03/11£2,851£2,563£287£41£1,579£2000.9180
31/03/10£3,011£2,818£193£32£1,192£420.2210
31/03/09£2,862£3,050£-188£47£1,080£3441.4260
31/03/08£2,824£2,790£34£48£1,462£7593.3250
31/03/07*£2,878£2,567£311£56£1,289£4502.1250
31/03/06£2,349£2,543£-194£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£2,491£2,362£129£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,369£2,286£83£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 18%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 23%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 45%
Reserves/Spending: 7.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 21 employees
  • 230 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
Esmee Fairbairn£6,928,730
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£228,000
John Ellerman Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£31,379 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting a thriving civil society
£8,000 18/01/2023
Core funding to support a network of museum professionals and institutions to campaign and advocate for inclusive, participatory and socially engaged museums at the heart of their communities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£2,683,794 07/07/2022
Towards delegated grant-making to develop a new iteration of the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, focusing on embedding inclusive collections and engagement work across the museum sector
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£35,000 29/07/2021
18
Towards project costs of a collaborative programme to embed decolonising work in museum professional development and broaden and deepen the understanding and expertise in this area of museum practice.
John Ellerman Foundation - Decolonisation Skills and Confidence building programme
£25,000 29/07/2021
Decolonisation Skills and Confidence building programme
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Decolonisation skills and confidence in museums
£20,000 29/06/2021
18
The Museums Association is a membership organisation for everyone working in museums, galleries and heritage. They campaign for socially engaged museums and a vibrant and inclusive workforce. This ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting a thriving civil society
£200,000 23/09/2019
60
Core funding to support a network of museum professionals and institutions to campaign and advocate for inclusive, participatory and socially engaged museums at the heart of their communities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£4,178,557 02/07/2019
36
Towards the development of the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, supporting museums to use their collections in order to be relevant and sustainable organisations that are connected to and valued by ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing Transformers mid-career programme and embedding participatory and inclusive practice
£40,000 09/07/2018
12
This grant will support the development of the Transformers mid-career programme, and embedding participatory and inclusive practice – drawing on the lessons from Our Museum. To include the ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Museums Change Lives Networking Tour
£60,000 01/04/2018
12
This grant will support a series of pilot networking events for museums, community groups and third sector organisations, to stimulate partnerships that build social value in communities and to ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Transformers
£20,000 06/01/2017
18
A grant towards Transformers, a workforce development initiative aimed at people in mid-career, working in any Museum Association accredited museum (or museum working towards accreditation), looking ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£3,941,914 19/04/2016
36
Towards the continuation of the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund, supporting museums to undertake projects that develop the use of their collections.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£3,253,420 11/04/2013
Towards the continuation of the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund to support work with collections in museums across the UK.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£140,000 15/12/2011
Towards the development and administration of the Esmee Fairbairn Collections fund.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£2,400,000 28/01/2011
Towards a new funding scheme to support museums across the UK for work involving collections care and research.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Museums Association
£70,000 30/09/2010
12
Towards Delegated Grant-Making Towards the research, development and administration of a new fund to support collections care, documentation and research.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-69
  • CHRISTINE MCLEAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing
  • HEATHER LEES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director Of Finance & Planning
  • KATHLEEN LAWTHER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Curator And Collections Consultant
  • RACHEL ROGERS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Museums And Arts Manager
  • SARA KASSAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Sustainability Lead
  • STELLA BYRNE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Investment Nlf Ni
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/11/1962, number: 313024
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/11/1930, number: 00252131
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • 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
20 returns made; AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

42
Clerkenwell Close
London

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MATERIAL HERITAGE OF MANKIND AND THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES AND BY ENCOURAGING THE INVOLVEMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THEIR WORK AND TO ESTABLISH, UPHOLD AND ADVANCE THE STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION, TRAINING AND COMPETENCE OF THOSE EMPLOYED IN MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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