THE WALPOLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 270280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Encouragement of the study of the history of British Art by the publication of an annual volume containing transcriptions of original documents and the results of research into British Art.

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BRITISH ART. (B) TO PUBLISH SO FAR AS IS PRACTICABLE AN ANNUAL VOLUME CONTAINING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND RESULTS OF RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF BRITISH ART.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £44,231 for the year, with total net assets increasing to £617,369. The Trustees report adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by unrestricted expendable reserves of £378,283 and an investment portfolio valued at £488,261.

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 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Clare Elizabeth Hornsbychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catharine Margaret MacLeod
• Dr Catherine Daunt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Christina Juliet Faraday
• Dr William Aslet
• Giles Howard Mandelbrote · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lawrence John Hendra
• Professor Alexander John Marr · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART.

• THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART income £8.3m
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS income £194k
• THE PAST AND PRESENT SOCIETY income £387k
• ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS income £305k
• THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY income £2.1m
• THE SPEAKERS ART FUND income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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