MK GALLERY

Registered charity 1059678 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M K GALLERY, MILTON KEYNES THEATRE AND GALLERY COMPANY

To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education and understanding of the public, particularly through the production and presentation of and engagement with the arts, visual culture and related areas of creative practice, and to formulate, prepare and establish projects and schemes therefore provided that all objects of the Gallery shall be of a charitable nature.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a profitable position with a net movement in funds of £60,532, driven by strong trading performance and stable core funding. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £311,006, which is below the stated policy target of £350,000, though the trustees consider these sufficient for current operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Bedford Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £75,001 - £85,000 (FY2024) to £85,000 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02422890

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anthony Spira — Director (source)
• Liz Gifford — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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 — “Arts Council England” (source page)
• Milton Keynes Council — “Milton Keynes Council” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WEBSTER, Graham Philip — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• BONSOR, Jane Hope — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• MILLER, Mary Frances — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• FERRANS, Jenni, Clr — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• SPIRA, Anthony John Peter — director, appointed 20/09/2022on trustee list
• CARBERT, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 07/06/2022on trustee list
• WESTACOTT, Sarah — director, appointed 15/03/2022on trustee list
• AMOAH, Asase Chike Tanoh — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• MASCARENHAS, Roselyn — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• KING, David Neil — director, appointed 26/09/2017on trustee list
• YEOMANS, Sunita — director, appointed 21/03/2017on trustee list
• GIFFORD, Elizabeth Patricia — director, appointed 28/09/2015on trustee list
• HOPKINS, David George, Councillor — director, appointed 14/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Patricia Giffordchair
• Anthony John Peter Spira
• Asase Chike Tanoh Amoah
• David Hopkins · trustee of 2 other charities
• David King
• Graham Philip Webster
• Jane Hope Bonsor
• Jenni Ferrans Cllr
• Mary Frances Miller
• Natalie Ellen Drought
• Precious Zumbika - Lwanga
• Roselyn Mascarenhas
• Sarah Westacott
• Sunita Yeomans
• Susan Margaret Carbert · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SHOWROOM GALLERY LTD..

• THE SHOWROOM GALLERY LTD. income £409k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GALLERY EDUCATION income £439k
• CASTLEFIELD GALLERY income £671k
• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• BACKLIT income £909k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.