The council is considering operating its museums service under charitable trusts.
Nottingham City Council says it has “learned lessons” from the failures of Nottingham Castle and has no intent to replicate how it was run as it considers operating its museums service under charitable trusts. The council’s museums service currently directly runs Wollaton Hall, Newstead Abbey , Nottingham Industrial Museum, the Museum of Nottingham Life and, more recently, Nottingham Castle .
The assessment said the preferred model was the creation of a development trust and exhibition trust, which would be used to supplement the council in running the museums service. “I’m asking really what setting up a charitable trusts alongside the current arrangement would mean for the governance of that, because certainly the governance of the castle when it was under the trust was very hostile to the City Council?”
Nigel Hawkins, the head of culture and libraries, added: “We know the lessons from the Nottingham Castle Trust.” The council says it is one of few cities that operates its museums service on its own, and establishing charitable trusts could help lower the costs to the council. Northampton Borough Council lost accreditation for funding from Arts Council England in 2014 after it sold its Sekhemka figurine, a 4000-year-old Egyptian statue, for almost £16m. It took almost 10 years to regain accreditation and associated grant funding.
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