YORK MUSEUMS AND GALLERY TRUST

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

BHP LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In conclusion, with the awarding of the MRF funding and the additional support provided by CYC's Letter of Guarantee, the Board considers York Museums Trust to be a going concern, and as such, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. YORK MUSEUMS AND GALLERY TRUST · parent
   1. York Museums and Enterprises Limited 100% · England and Wales · trading subsidiary

Significant events

• “A. Dean became Chair in December 2024.”
• “The 'Monet in York: The Water-Lily Pond' exhibition attracted almost 71,000 visitors and won the Visit York Tourism Award for Cultural Experience of the Year 2025.”
• “The gallery opened 'Harland Miller: XXX' exhibition in March 2025.”
• “York Castle Museum continued to recover from RAAC, with preparations to reopen its final closed gallery.”
• “Discovery of the late Iron Age Melsonby Hoard and launch of a campaign to acquire it.”
• “Yorkshire Museum opened 'Star Carr: After the ice' exhibition.”
• “Museum Gardens received a platinum award from Yorkshire in Bloom in 2024.”
• “The Trust received a donation of three Harland Miller 'Bad Weather' paintings and displayed the Viking archaeological find 'Thor's Hammer'.”
• “A major Roman research project, 'Seeing the Dead', commenced in January 2025, supported by £900,000 from AHRC.”
• “In August 2025, YMT was awarded £1m from the Arts Council's Museum Renewal Fund (MRF), with £600k allocated to free reserves and £320k against the budgeted deficit.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +24.5%

  £4,671,965 → £5,817,399

• Cash

  -8.6%

  £1,925,035 → £1,760,154

• Net assets

  -15.2%

  £4,469,228 → £3,787,869

• Employees

  +6.3%

  142 → 151

• Profit before tax

  -3.4%

  -£877,292 → -£907,359

• Wages

  +20.7%

  £3,048,253 → £3,680,765

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers