CHISENHALE GALLERY

Registered charity 1026175 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16334457 · Wikipedia

Chisenhale Gallery supports artists to pursue new directions and to produce their most ambitious work to date. We enable audiences to experience this process of commissioning and producing art, and to learn from it through critical reflection, discussion and participation. Chisenhale Gallery is a key organisation for artist-led education activities for the local community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR BY:- (1) ESTABLISHING, PROMOTING AND MANAGING GALLERIES, INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS AND PLACES WHERE WORKS OF ART (AND ESPECIALLY INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY ART RELEVANT TO CULTURAL CONCERNS AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC) MAY BE EXHIBITED AND MADE THE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH, CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION (2) UNDERTAKING SUCH EXHIBITION, RESEARCH, CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION ACQUIRING AND EXPLOITING THE MEANS TO DO SO AND ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO DO SO (3) UNDERTAKING ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITY WHICH WILL ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds stood at £369,000, with designated reserves increased to £220,000, which the trustees consider equivalent to three months of operating costs. Total income for the year was £837,754 against total expenditure of £940,216, resulting in a net deficit of £102,462. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “Supported using public funding by Arts Council England” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• May Calilchair
• Alexandra Hess
• Alfred Lovell Spencer
• Angelina Volk
• Charlotte Burns
• Katherine Schaefer
• Lydia Ourahmane
• Melodie Leung
• Sasha Morgan
• Shezad Dawood
• Shyam Awasthi
• Thomas Francis

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHISENHALE ART PLACE LIMITED.

• CHISENHALE ART PLACE LIMITED income £324k
• SYDENHAM ARTS LTD income £34k
• WHITECHAPEL GALLERY income £3.5m
• CASTLEFIELD GALLERY income £671k
• CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE income £243k
• SITE GALLERY LTD. income £565k

Side by side with its peers

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