THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

Registered charity 1071167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5474645 · Wikipedia

To operate a museum for the maintenance, conservation and exhibition of the Foundling Hospital collection.

Objects

(A) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND OF SCHOLARS BY THE DOCUMENTATION, MAINTENANCE, CONSERVATION, EXHIBITION, STUDY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE COLLECTION (AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUB-CLAUSE); (B) IN THIS MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION, THE "COLLECTION" MEANS THE WORKS OF ART AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS FROM TIME TO TIME COMPRISED IN THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO AND SUCH OTHER WORKS OF ART AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS AS ARE COMPRISED THEREIN AND AS MAY BE ADDED THERETO. (2) TO SUPPORT SUCH OF THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY CALLED THE HOSPITAL FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION OF EXPOSED AND DESERTED YOUNG CHILDREN NOW KNOWN AS THE THOMAS CORAM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ("THE FOUNDATION") AS THE CHARITY IN CONSULTATION WITH THE FOUNDATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £118,829 for the year, driven by a decline in fundraised income following a major capital campaign. However, the charity maintains a healthy financial position with free reserves of £1,161,072, which aligns with its stated policy of holding three to six months of expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundling Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Ridgway — Director (source)
• Rosie Baker — Director (source)
• Stuart Boxall — Director (source)
• Isobel Chester — Director (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £4.5m. 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 ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 23.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Linda Hoyle OBEchair
• Andrew James McIntyre
• Christopher Richard Dumas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Claire Jeffers
• Edward Stuart Humphrey
• Francesca Filippini Pinto · trustee of 1 other charity
• Grayson Perry CBE
• Lord Simon Russell
• Michael Desmond Crossan
• Ronald Gould

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 THE SIR MAX AITKEN MUSEUM.

• THE SIR MAX AITKEN MUSEUM income £113k
• TOPSHAM MUSEUM income £58k
• MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE income £145k
• EUROPEAN MUSEUM FORUM income £80k
• MUSEUM OF BRANDS income £851k
• THE FARMLAND MUSEUM income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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