TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY TRUST

Registered charity 1143235 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide a Museum and Art Gallery for the citizens and visitors to the City of Carlise

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £229,317 for the year, primarily due to the museum closure for major capital works. However, total reserves increased significantly to £6,634,481, driven by restricted funding for Project Tullie, while free unrestricted reserves remained at £91,120, which is below the stated policy target of £400,000 to £500,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by David Allen. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (76% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JONATHAN SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW ROBERT MACKAY
• CAROLINE THOMSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• COLIN WILLIAM GLOVER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen Jane Smout
• Joanne Orr
• John Stevenson
• LORD RICHARD INGLEWOOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lisa Middleton
• Malcolm Courtney Rogers
• Marcia Reid Fotheringham · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP GERARD CALLAGHAN
• REBECCA FOY
• SUSANNE JAYNE PARRY
• VALERIE YOUNG

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK MUSEUM & GALLERY TRUST.

• YORK MUSEUM & GALLERY TRUST income £9.2m
• MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST income £1.6m
• THE TULA TRUST LIMITED income £674k
• SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED income £2.7m
• SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST 2018 income £5.6m
• THE HORNIMAN PUBLIC MUSEUM AND PUBLIC PARK TRUST income £10.4m

Side by side with its peers

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