MUSEUM OF LONDON

Registered charity 1139250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON MUSEUM, MOL

Museum of London tells the story of one of the world's greatest cities and its people. As the single most important source of knowledge on the capital, the Museum is, uniquely, a national, regional and local organisation. With over a million items in its collection, it is the largest social history Museum in the world.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the museum reported total incoming resources of £128.5m against total expenditure of £26.8m, resulting in a significant increase in net assets. The trustees confirm the organization is a going concern with sufficient cash flows to meet liabilities for at least twelve months, supported by committed statutory funding and a strong pipeline of donors for the new museum project.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bloomberg Philanthropies — “The London Museum website was developed with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Digital Accelerator for Arts and Culture.” (source page)

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• The Becket Connection: employing the Becket story and 2020 anniversary as catalysts to transform heritage, tourism, education and community engagement —
• A Museum of Uncollected Things —
• Meat, Masculinity and Memory: Smithfield Market in the late twentieth century —
• Sensory Cities: researching, representing and curating sensory-emotional landscapes of urban environments —
• Africa's Sons Under Arms: Race, Military Bodies and the British West India Regiment in the Atlantic world, 1795-1914 —
• Transforming data rE-use in ARCHaeology (TEtrARCHs) —
• Cambridge Heritage Science Hub (CHERISH): Infrastructure for Research in Material Culture and Collections —
• Sensory Objects Enterprise - Co-Development and Start Up project —
• Biography and Fashion Collections: Developing a dress-specific acquisition and cataloguing methodology using the Francis Golding Collections. —
• Meat at the butcher's —

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (222,179 likes) · instagram (163K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of Exhibitions and Productions · London
• Engagement Coordinator (Administration and Volunteering) · London
• Engagement Coordinator (Administration and Volunteering) · London
• Learning Manager, Smithfield · London

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (83% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alderman Gregory Jones KC
• Alice Black · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bridget Banton
• Charlotte Twyning
• Clive Bannister
• David Wormsley
• Donya Monique Rose
• Elizabeth Susan Corrin
• Ijeoma Ekwueme-Okoli
• John Foley
• Lindsay Herbert
• Matthew Bell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Martinelli CC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Sir David Cannadine
• Samir Patel
• Sarah Gillinson
• Simon Morris
• Simon Robert Levine

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JEWISH MUSEUM LONDON.

• THE JEWISH MUSEUM LONDON income £848k
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS income £427k
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• THE NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £3.6m
• MUSEUM OF LONDON ARCHAEOLOGY income £19.4m
• NMRN OPERATIONS income £21.5m

Side by side with its peers

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