THE PUBLIC CATALOGUE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1096185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Art UK, PCF, THE PUBLIC CATALOGUE · also registered in Scotland as SC048601 (OSCR)

Art UK is a cultural education charity on a mission to make the art in UK public collections accessible to everyone, for enjoyment, learning and research. We enable global audiences to learn about the nation's art collection by digitising artworks, telling the stories behind the art and creating exciting opportunities for public interaction with art, both online and offline.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net loss of £777 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total net assets to £772,096. While unrestricted funds increased to £429,925, the charity reports a free reserves deficit of £84,685 after accounting for fixed assets, noting that continued work is being done to generate alternative unrestricted income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Gwyn DAVIESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Avril Catherine Burns MARTINDALE
• Benjamin John TERRETT
• Catherine HOLDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Caroline Margaret CAMPBELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hasan BAKHSHI
• John Frederick STACK
• LISA WONG
• Professor Carola BOEHM
• Professor Jago COOPER
• Sherece RAINFORD
• Thomas MARKS

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND.

• NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND income £17.7m
• THE INGRAM ART FOUNDATION income £152k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY income £2.1m
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES income £1.9m
• JERWOOD FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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