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WIKIMEDIA UK

Registered charity 1144513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WIKI UK LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC048644 (OSCR)

WMUK exists to help collect, develop and distribute freely licensed knowledge (and other educational, cultural and historic material). We do this by bringing the Wikimedia community in the UK together, and by building links with UK-based cultural institutions, universities, charities and other bodies, and with overseas bodies within the Wikimedia Movement.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.0m
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a significant surplus of £256,316 on unrestricted funds, bringing total reserves to £645,526. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £438,157 exceed the stated policy target range of £260,000 to £390,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £90,001 - £100,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“One employee earned between £90,000 - £100,000 during the year excluding pension contributions” — page 34
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“One employee earned between £90,000 - £100,000 during the year excluding pension contributions” — page 34
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: four to six months of operating costs (held: £438k)
“This is a range of £260,000 to £390,000.” — page 16
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.0m
Cost of raising funds
£54k
Reserves (reported)
£449k
Employees
14

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/01/2025£1.3m£1.0m
31/01/2024£1.1m£1.1m
31/01/2023£977k£976k
31/01/2022£860k£832k
31/01/2021£867k£694k

Common questions

Is WIKIMEDIA UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a significant surplus of £256,316 on unrestricted funds, bringing total reserves to £645,526. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £438,157 exceed the stated policy target range of £260,000 to £390,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Albert Goodman LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of WIKIMEDIA UK earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £90,001 - £100,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds WIKIMEDIA UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WIKIMEDIA UK as a grant recipient include THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST, SWIRE 2765, CULHAM ST GABRIEL'S TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£762kAdvancement of education
SWIRE 2765FY2023£50k
SWIRE 2765FY2022£50k
CULHAM ST GABRIEL'S TRUSTFY2023£7kTackling Cultural Bias on Wikipedia

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund10/09/2025£56k"UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/12/2022£25k"Explore: Wikimedia UK"
The National Lottery Community Fund26/08/2021£9kWiciMôn: Supporting Young People Through Digital Literacy

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST2£6k
BREAKTHROUGH FOUNDATION1£2.0m
THE FREELANDS FOUNDATION LIMITED1£328k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION1£218k
THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST1£119k
THE PILGRIM TRUST1£60k
THE AMPERSAND FOUNDATION1£50k
THE HEADLEY TRUST1£50k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GOFUNDME.ORG.UK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WIKIMEDIA UK£1.3m£90,001 - £100,0001unclear—no doubt
GOFUNDME.ORG.UK FY2025£227k—0above—no doubt
Libraries Connected FY2025£2.7m——within—no doubt
WMUK FY2025£424k—0unclear—no doubt
THE PUBLIC CATALOGUE FOUNDATION FY2025£2.2m—0above7.0%no doubt
SHREE VISHWAKARMA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED KINGDOM FY2024£104k—0below—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.