The Cardiff Museum Development Trust

The Cardiff Museum Development Trust fundraises to make sure the Cardiff Story Museum can deliver a range of activities for all ages and interests - be that our Dinky Dragons sessions for babies and toddlers, our schools programme, our work with diverse communities, our dementia friendly activities across the city or our interactive galleries that tell the story of Cardiff and its people.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £5,826 and spent £1,251.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 295%, from £1,475 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £5,826 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 21% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2023: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2009, worth at least £448,900.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 28 June 2023

  Named by Dawn Bowden in the Senedd

  …nse to Rhys ab Owen's question, I made it very clear that we have been in consultation with Cardiff Council, that we've talked to the Cardiff Museum Development Trust, and that we've talked to them about benchmarking museum services and about museum accreditation services. We were very clear with th…

  Read the record

• 28 June 2023

  Named by Dawn Bowden in the Senedd

  …a matter for Cardiff Council, but Welsh Government officials have met and corresponded with Cardiff Council, its museum staff and the Cardiff Museum Development Trust, advising on benchmarking museum services, museum accreditation standards, funding, income generation, governance and operating model…

  Read the record

We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read it in full.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Gabriella Poppy HowellAppointed 1 December 2022
• Gerallt Jones
• Ian Courtney
• Janey Elizabeth HowellAppointed 20 October 2011
• Jennifer BurkeAppointed 30 June 2022
• Mark John MunneryAppointed 20 November 2012
• Richard Tynen

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1135241

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

26 March 2010

Governing document

TRUST DEED DATED 11 DECEMBER 2008 AS AMENDED BY DEED OF VARIATION 16 DECEMBER 2009

Website

www.cardiffstory.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth