FULHAM PALACE TRUST

Registered charity 1140088 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs an education service, museum, historic house, garden, cafe and is a wedding and functions venue. It is open free of charge throughout the year.

Objects

"(1) TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF THE FULHAM PALACE MUSEUM (THE "MUSEUM") COMPRISING SUCH EXHIBITS OR ITEMS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME HOLD OR RECEIVE AND TO PRESERVE THE SAME AS A COLLECTION (THE "COLLECTION"); AND(2) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE WHATEVER OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND ROUND FULHAM PALACE IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS AND GARDENS OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST;(3) TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVE OR PROMOTE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN FULHAM PALACE GROUNDS THROUGH (I) THE PROVISION, CONSERVATION, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT OF A NATURAL HABITAT; OR (II) THE MAINTENANCE OR RECOVERY OF A SPECIES IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT, ON LAND OR IN WATER SITUATED IN THE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE".

Area of benefit: HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a general unrestricted deficit of £187,028 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted income falling to £1.556 million. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £356,021, which is below the stated policy target of £636,000, and the trustees have prepared a financial recovery plan to address forecast deficits and a £7.2m conservation backlog.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 6 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
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Siân Harrington — Chief Executive 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “We would like to thank the following for their generous support towards realising our vision for the restoration and renewal of this excepti…” (source page)
• All Saints Fulham — “Charitable Trusts and Foundations, Organisations and Corporate Donors 2020/21 All Saints Fulham” (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 ~27.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (64% 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: 10.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Martin Graychair
• Anna Delaud
• Clive Peter Hinds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Craig Bradley Coben
• Daniel Benjamin Jackson
• David Paul Morris · trustee of 2 other charities
• Deborah Farley-Persaud
• Fenella Goodhart
• Iain Graeme Cassidy
• Matthew George Pottage · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel McMillan Randall
• Rev Peter David Dobson · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

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 FLORAL HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST LTD.

• FLORAL HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST LTD income £128k
• FARNHAM ROYAL VILLAGE HALL income £50k
• CULHAM CHAPEL TRUST income £356k
• PAGHAM VILLAGE HALL TRUST income £60k
• THE SHARPHAM TRUST income £2.2m
• THE FERNHURST VILLAGE HALL income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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