PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY
Registered charity 1102435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Public Art Gallery providing outreach and education facilities
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the Gallery delivered a headline surplus of £377k but incurred an underlying operating deficit of £421k, driven by a 10% increase in costs to £2,785k against a 3% rise in income. The trustees note that operating deficits are realistically unavoidable until higher levels of sustainable income are secured, leading to a drawdown on reserves, though forecasts indicate these deficits will remain within available reserves through September 2026.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Trustees and their related parties contributed £38,624.
“Amounts contributed to the Gallery by the Trustees and their related parties totalled £38,624 from 11 trustees (2024: £33,309 from ten trustees).” — page 37
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Simon Martin — Director (source)
- Sarah Songhurst — Chief Operating Officer (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)
5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £2.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£119k
Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (46% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (16/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (12/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- John Antony Cleeve Ayton MBEchair
- Andrew James Cussins
- Clare Margaret Mary Apel MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
- Elsebeth Gatacre
- Laura Ford
- Mark Wyatt Washer
- Patrick Adam Fernesley Figgis · trustee of 2 other charities
- Patrick Duncan Holmes
- Robin Mark Vousden
- Tamara Jane Templer
- The Rt Hon the Lord Tyrie of Chichester
- Thomas William Marks
- Timothy Charles Chatwin
- Victoria Elvidge
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: West Sussex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Gallery delivered a headline surplus of £377k but incurred an underlying operating deficit of £421k, driven by a 10% increase in costs to £2,785k against a 3% rise in income. The trustees note that operating deficits are realistically unavoidable until higher levels of sustainable income are secured, leading to a drawdown on reserves, though forecasts indicate these deficits will remain within available reserves through September 2026. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Who funds PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY as a grant recipient include THE JOHN BOOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND, THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION, THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST.
Known funders
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