Current Supporters

Support from members of the public, companies and charitable organisations helps us to care for the Museum, curate exhibitions, improve facilities, conserve and study the collection, buy objects and develop our learning programme. We work with like-minded organisations that share our vision to support this area and the people that live here.

Current supporters include:

Albert Dawson Educational Trust
Durham County Council
NHLF Skills for the Future 

Anthony & Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement
Durham University Innovation Pilot
Northern Heartlands

Arms and Armour Heritage Trust
Eccles Family Trust
Paul Mellon Fund

Arts Scholars Charitable Trust
EMS Sheppard Trust
Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts

Art UK
Equal Arts
Sir Denis Mahon’s Charitable Trust

Art UK Masterpieces in Schools
Esmee Fairburn Foundation
Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

Arts Council England
Foyle Foundation
Society for the History of Collecting 

Barnard Castle Mayor’s Charity Fund
Friends of the Bowes Museum 
Stevenson Family’s Charitable Trust

Barnard Castle Town Council
Furniture History Society
Tavolozza Foundation

Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust 
Global Radio 
Teesdale Area Action Partnership 

Catherine Lewis Foundation
Golsoncott Foundation
The Art Fund

County Durham Community Foundation 
John Ellerman Foundation
The Leche Trust

Creative Age Challenge Partnership 
Mark Fitch Fund 
The V&A Acquisition Fund

Creative Fuse
MPM Beamish Innovation Funding
TIN Arts

Darlington Building Society 
National Lottery Heritage Fund 
Together Middlesbrough & Cleveland