Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum

Analysis

Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Woodstock. It was registered in January 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum reported income of £26k and spending of £24k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £5,074 to £26k (+417%), an average of +51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 548%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Guisborough University of the Third Age (£26k), The Percy Davies Institution (£26k) and Vitus Arts Limited (£26k).