JERWOOD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1197386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation owns the Jerwood Collection of 20th & 21st century British art, which is available for display in the public domain. We are part of a family of philanthropic organisations and welcome applications for funding for visual and performing arts projects in the UK, particularly with a focus on working with our Collection and making art available for public benefit.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE:THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF ART INCLUDING BY MAKING ART AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IN SUCH MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER SUCH BUILDINGS OR INSTITUTIONS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL AGREE FROM TIME TO TIME;ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £7,387,731 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven primarily by investment gains. Per the trustees' report, total funds amounted to £73,607,169, with free reserves of £1,632,012, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet future commitments and operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ellacotts Audit Services Limited. 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rupert Tyler — Chairman (source)
• Lara Wardle — Executive Director (source)
• Alan Grieve — Chairman Emeritus (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 18.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rupert David Tylerchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher William King
• Julia Wharton
• KATHARINE GOODISON
• Kathrin Kahrass Carmona e Costa
• Lara Wardle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Amanda Ash
• Miranda Thompson-Schwab
• PHILIPPA VICTORIA CAMPBELL
• TARA LOUISE MAYHEW

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED.

• HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £6.0m
• THE JAMES & SHIRLEY SHERWOOD FOUNDATION income £372k
• WYLDWOOD ARTS income £148k
• THE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION income £177k
• HARLOW ART TRUST income £490k
• THE HERTFORD MUSEUM CHARITY income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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