DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY

Registered charity 1171287 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1241163 · Wikipedia

The charity took over on 1 April 2017 from the previous unincorporated charity no 1040942 set up in 1994 to preserve and maintain Dulwich Picture Gallery and its collection for the enjoyment of the public, mount art exhibitions and displays, and run a programme of public events and educational activities. Earlier records can be found at http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/what-we-do.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF THE FINE ARTS BY PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING THE GALLERY AND THE COLLECTION AS AN INDEPENDENT GALLERY FOR THE EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF FINE ART TO THE PUBLIC AND FOR CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES CONNECTED THEREWITH.

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

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Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £926k for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased trading income and investment gains. However, the Trustees note that current free reserves of £683k are below the desired minimum level of approximately £1,250k, with plans in place to build reserves over the coming years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• 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)

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% 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: 27.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adeola Gay
• Benedict Brogan
• Cecil Quillen
• Dame JANET VITMAYER
• Helen Macintyre
• Jane Lunnon
• John Cox
• Jonathan Card
• Katy Wickremesinghe
• SIAN WILLIAMS
• Victoria Pinnington

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

Operates in: Southwark

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 THE DUNWICH COMMUNITY HERITAGE CENTRE.

• THE DUNWICH COMMUNITY HERITAGE CENTRE income £338k
• THE DULWICH SOCIETY income £35k
• Dulwich Prep & Senior income £18.4m
• PENWITH GALLERIES LIMITED income £335k
• CASTLEFIELD GALLERY income £671k
• EAST DULWICH COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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