FRIENDS OF THE BARGELLO

Registered charity 1166475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends of the Bargello has been created to raise funds to maintain, preserve and publicise the museum and its collections, aiming for the highest standards of quality in all its endeavours.

Objects

THE EDUCATION OF THE PULIC BY THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL BARGELLO

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity effectively ceased fundraising activity during the period due to a leadership vacancy at the partner museum. Despite this, unrestricted funds increased to £41,212, supported by donations, while total cash funds stood at £41,810 at year-end. The trustees note that committed costs are very low, relating primarily to administrative and professional fees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW RUSSELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Fiorella Alvino
• KATHERINE ZOCK
• Milo Dickinson
• Professor Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann

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

Operates in: Italy

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERY.

• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERY income £35k
• FRIENDS OF BRISTOL MUSEUMS, GALLERIES & ARCHIVES income £165k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE WHITWORTH ART GALLERY income £32k
• THE FRIENDS OF DEERHURST CHURCH income £141k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY income £1.6m
• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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