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The Siege Museum Limited

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £147.7K

  • Spending

    £124.1K

  • Charity no. 104796
  • Company no. 45100
  • Date registered. 01/06/2017

Public benefits

The museum is located inside the City Walls close to St Columb's Cathedral, First Derry Blue Coat School and the O'Doherty museum. Visitors from all over the world come to see the city and a major tourist highlight is a walk around the Walls with visits to St Columb's Cathedral, The Siege Museum, the First Derry Blue School museum, the O'Doherty

Fort museum and the Guildhall. The public benefit is to advance the arts, culture and heritage for the benefit of the public generally by restoring the Royal Bastion, City Walls. This will be available for viewing by the public. Also to establish the public interpretative or heritage centres and museum which will advance arts, culture and heritage for the benefit of the public generally by being open to the public who can advance their knowledge and understanding of the arts, culture and heritage by visiting the bastion, museum or interpretative or heritage centre.

What your organisation does

Operates a museum open to the public.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • Interface communities
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Education/training
  • Heritage/historical
  • Research/evaluation

Charitable purposes

1. To restore and promote the permanent preservation, for the benefit of the public generally and especially the inhabitants of the City of Londonderry of a Memorial at the Royal Bastion, City Walls, Londonderry to the late Reverend George Walker, joint Governor of the City of Londonderry during the siege of 1689. 2. To establish and maintain for the education and benefit of the public generally and especially the inhabitants of the City of Londonderry museums, interpretive or heritage centres within the City Walls of Londonderry to depict by display and chronicles, the attainments of the Scottish, English and French Protestant settlers and descendants in the City and County of Londonderry with a permanent feature on the events of 1688-1689 incorporating the Reverend Doctor George Walker's influence on the besieged and his subsequent national acclaim

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 12 Trustees
  • 2 Employees
  • 3 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr James Brownlee
  • Mr William Hay
  • Mr Ronald Mccausland
  • Mr Worthington Mcgrath
  • Mr Ivan Taylor
  • Mr Noel Moore
  • Mr Victor Wray
  • Mr George Luney
  • Mr Richard Wray
  • Mr Matthew Hamilton
  • Mr William Mervyn Duddy
  • Mr David Mcclean

Contact details

Public Address

Mr Worthington Mcgrath, The Siege Museum, 13 Society Street, Londonderry, BT48 6PG

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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