Torfaen Museum Trust Ltd

The charity operates Torfaen Museum in the borough of Torfaen. The museum includes an art gallery, and displays of artefacts relating to the history of the Eastern Valley of Gwent. Of notable interest is the collection of Japanware, which was a speciality of the Pontypool district in the eighteenth century. The Trust also provides educational services in the area.

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire
• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: Borough of Torfaen and Adjacent Districts of West Gwent

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £100,993 and spent £159,738.

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

Down 44%, from £180,074 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £100,993 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 158% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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 2025: £82,167 from 3 grants. 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 5 grants to this charity since 2002, worth at least £370,939.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £37,180, on 20 January 2021.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Geoffrey George Morgan Sandercock
• John Wardlaw Hanbury-TenisonAppointed 16 December 2011
• Michael DanielsAppointed 6 June 2023
• Professor John HuntAppointed 24 May 2022
• Richard Giles ClarkAppointed 1 July 2020
• Susan MorganAppointed 9 July 2021

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, 2 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

507419

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 April 1978

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/03/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/12/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/09/2011

Company number

01358444This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.torfaenmuseum.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

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

• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen