THE SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST

Registered charity 1161850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust's core activity is to build on Sidney Nolan's remarkable legacy to maintain a vibrant and thriving centre for the arts, in a rural setting. It uses its extensive collection of Nolan paintings, personal archive material and library to promote an ongoing appreciation of his work and uses this unique resource to inform its annual exhibition and educational outreach programmes.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS GENERALLY (BUT INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR THE WORKS OF ART OF SIR SIDNEY NOLAN) BY: (A) ESTABLISHING A GALLERY WITH ANCILLARY FACILITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING EXHIBITIONS FOR THE PUBLIC (WITH OR WITHOUT CHARGE) OF WORKS BY THE SAID SIR SIDNEY NOLAN OR SUCH OTHER ARTISTS AS THE CIO MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE UPON AND (B) THE PRESENTATION FOR THE PUBLIC (WITH OR WITHOUT CHARGE) OF MUSIC DRAMA AND ANY OTHER RELATED ARTS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust ended the year with a deficit of £209,640 in unrestricted funds, driven by a significant increase in charitable expenditure that outpaced income growth. Despite this, the Trust holds £233,458 in freely available reserves, which the trustees report is approximately eight months of operating costs and is in line with their policy target of six months' expenditure. The trustees maintain that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Simon Gibbson Charitable Trust — “Supported by: The Simon Gibbson Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (91% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Trenchchair
• Alison Giles
• Dr David Dawson Ferry · trustee of 4 other charities
• GEORGE LITTLEJOHN
• JANE GALLAGHER
• Nicola Kalinsky
• Ruth Lloyd
• Tamara Mascarenhas

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Powys · Shropshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 SYDENHAM ARTS LTD.

• SYDENHAM ARTS LTD income £34k
• SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM TRUST income £214k
• SUNDERLAND MUSIC, ARTS & CULTURE TRUST income £552k
• CHARDON TRUST income £88k
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• THE NOEL SWEENEY FOUNDATION income £304k

Side by side with its peers

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