ROYAL PAVILION AND MUSEUMS TRUST

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust aims to deliver a World class museum and heritage service for the city of Brighton and Hove which will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally for excellence, quality and the educational experience for its visitors.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income:
£9,161,834
Donations and legacies | £4.40m | |
Charitable activities | £3.44m | |
Other trading activities | £1.20m | |
Investments | £0 | |
Other | £117.17k |
Total expenditure:
£9,267,158
Raising funds | £869.51k | |
Charitable activities | £8.40m | |
Other | £0 |
£0 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £2,531,495 from 3 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
Raising funds and other expenditure | £869.51k | |
Charitable expenditure | £8.40m |
People

209 Employee(s)
15 Trustee(s)
67 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
Number of employees | |
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£60k to £70k | 1 |
£90k to £100k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- The General Public/mankind
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Other Charitable Activities
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
- 17 December 2019: Standard registration
No other names
- 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
- 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
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
15 Trustee(s)
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Michael James Bedingfield | Chair | 06 November 2019 |
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Cllr Amanda Grimshaw | Trustee | 29 June 2023 |
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Sue Shanks Cllr | Trustee | 28 July 2022 |
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Atiya Gourlay | Trustee | 01 April 2021 |
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Dr Angela Smith | Trustee | 20 April 2020 |
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Rebecca Claire Helena Crook | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Sue Wilkinson OBE | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Davinder Dhillon DL | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Shaun Romain | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Brad Irwin | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Jane Avard WEEKS | Trustee | 18 January 2019 |
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Cllr Alan Robins | Trustee | 18 January 2019 |
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Lord John Steven Bassam | Trustee | 18 January 2019 |
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Timothy John Mellor Aspinall | Trustee | 18 January 2019 |
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David James Charles Anderson OBE | Trustee | 18 January 2019 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £5.90m | £6.67m | £7.48m | £9.16m | |
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Total expenditure | £3.52m | £8.03m | £8.78m | £9.27m | |
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Income from government contracts | £1.30m | £1.36m | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £2.53m | £2.11m | N/A | £2.53m | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £4.95m | £3.97m | £3.54m | £4.40m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £67.82k | £823.10k | £944.28k | £1.20m | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £235.52k | £1.85m | £2.94m | £3.44m | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Other | £646.41k | £24.71k | £59.42k | £117.17k | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £67.90k | £110.83k | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £3.42m | £7.71m | £8.26m | £8.40m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £96.68k | £325.56k | £522.14k | £869.51k | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £109.26k | £155.72k | £137.45k | £19.73k | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £164.78k | £246.45k | £340.52k | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
Asset / Liability | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Other assets | £3.24m | £4.05m | £2.60m | £2.56m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £860.19k | £3.04m | £2.89m | £2.95m |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 17 January 2025 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 17 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 25 January 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 25 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 26 January 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 26 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 11 January 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 11 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 JAN 2019 NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29 NOV 2019 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19 JAN 2021
Charitable objects
2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: 2.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION IN, THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE, AND SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY: (A) MANAGING, OPERATING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS AND THEIR PERMANENT COLLECTIONS, INCLUDING BY ACQUIRING SUITABLE OBJECTS FOR THE COLLECTIONS; (B) PRESERVING AND SAFEGUARDING THE LAND AND THE BUILDINGS OF THE ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS; AND (C) PROVIDING FOR, OR SUPPORTING, THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, REFURBISHMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS OF COLLECTIONS IN THE BRIGHTON AND HOVE AREA; AND 2.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), IN RELATION TO HERITAGE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS; AND 2.1.3 THE MAINTENANCE AND PROVISION OF LAND AND FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE. 2.2. THE ‘ROYAL PAVILION MUSEUMS’ SHALL MEAN THE ROYAL PAVILION GARDENS, BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, PRESTON MANOR, HOVE MUSEUM, AND BOOTH MUSEUM.
Contact information
- Address:
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Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust
4-5 Pavilion Buildings
Brighton
BN1 1EE
- Phone:
- 03000 290 900
- Email:
- info@rpmt.org.uk
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