THE MUSE AT 269

Registered charity 1162300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCES

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

Causes: Education/training · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £153,427 for the year, driven largely by a £500,000 legacy donation. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £331,792 and has no employees, relying instead on trustee support and a director's loan for financial stability.

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 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2022 (received 03/03/2023, 3 days after the 28/02/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09561179

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LAPSA-MALAWSKA, Malgorzata Joanna — director, appointed 01/06/2024on trustee list
• RAYNE, Damian Robert — director, appointed 29/06/2015on trustee list
• MCCARTHY, James — director, appointed 25/04/2015on trustee list
• RAYNE, Robert Anthony, The Honourable — director, appointed 25/04/2015on trustee list
• RAYNE, Damien Robert — secretary, appointed 25/04/2015

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT ANTHONY RAYNEchair
• Damian Rayne Robert
• JAMES MCCARTHY
• Malgorzata Joanna Lapsa-Malawska

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PM MUSEUM LTD.

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• THE FAN MUSEUM income £327k
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• THE STAITHES MUSEUM AND HERITAGE TRUST income £100k
• THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY income £369k
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Side by side with its peers

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