Grane Engineering Museum

Analysis

Grane Engineering Museum is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in October 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 09264974). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Grane Engineering Museum reported income of £15k and spending of £23k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £12k to £15k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2025, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 243% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Grane Engineering Museum sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Frays Charitable Trust (£15k), Village Hall (£16k) and The R E D Trust (£15k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.