TURNER CONTEMPORARY

Registered charity 1129974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1391289 · Wikipedia

The principal objective of the company is the provision of a permanent gallery in Margate for the visual arts organisation which celebrates JMW Turner's association with Margate and, through a varied programme of exhibitions and events and learning activities, promotes an understanding and enjoyment of historical and contemporary art.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE ART FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH ACTIVITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EXHIBITIONS, DISPLAYS, EVENTS AND COMMISSIONS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE HELD AT TURNER CONTEMPORARY.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS; AND3. TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF REGISTERED CHARITIES AND CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS, INCLUDING COMMUNITY GROUPS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PREMISES OR OTHER SPACES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE TURNER CONTEMPORARY BUILDING.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

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Registered contact address: Thanet, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £618,844 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in consolidated unrestricted funds to £672,193. Despite this deficit and a reserves position below the stated policy target, the trustees confirm the organization 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 Azets Audit Services. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 16/02/2022, 16 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Turner Contemporary (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Clarrie Wallis — 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Kent County Council — “Public Investment and Lottery Funding Kent County Council” (source page)
• Bridget Riley Art Foundation — “Major Donors Bridget Riley Art Foundation” (source page)
• White Cube — “Gallery Circle White Cube” (source page)
• Burberry — “Corporate Sponsors, Patrons and Supporters Burberry” (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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: 24.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATTHEW SLOTOVERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alessandro Raho
• Brian James Horton
• Charlene Prempeh
• Clifford McLean
• Helen Beeckmans
• Liesl Frida Fichardt
• MICHEL DRIESSEN
• Melanie Tong
• NICK MAYNARD
• Peter Hawkes
• Sir Stephen Deuchar CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tanya Barson

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Side by side with its peers

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