NML FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1150493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NMLF

To advance, in a manner which the trustees see fit, the charitable objects of The National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), and to advance the education of the public throughout the world in any manner conducive to, and compatible with the charitable objects of NMGM, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, in particular by widening participation in charitable education.

Objects

TO ADVANCE, IN ANY MANNER IN WHICH THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SEE FIT, THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ON MERSEYSIDE (AS MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME) AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN ANY MANNER CONDUCIVE TO AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ON MERSEYSIDE, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING IN PARTICULAR BY WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN CHARITABLE EDUCATION.

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

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

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £366,519 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted fund balances from £8,907,733 to £8,541,214. The trustees maintain that the level of reserves held is sufficient to enable the charity to continue its current activities, and the independent auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSG Audit. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 28/02/2024, 28 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 20/03/2022, 48 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROF PHIL REDMOND CBEchair
• ANTHONY MICHAEL BAYLISS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Nicola Jayne Thorp
• MARK RUPERT FEENY · trustee of 6 other charities
• Roger Nelson Phillips
• Sir David Henshaw

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST.

• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• GLENSIDE HOSPITAL MUSEUM income £51k
• NAUTICAL MUSEUMS TRUST LIMITED income £107k
• MARGARET MCMILLAN LIMITED income £843k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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