BEN URI GALLERY AND MUSEUM LIMITED

Registered charity 280389 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEN URI ART SOCIETY LIMITED

Ben Uri is a global research led academic institution. It is unique in the UK Museum sector being digitally led supporting its physical presence. Its principal focus is recording the Jewish, the Refugee and the wide Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. Benuri.org plays an important educational role in social integration. It tours its collection and exhibitions widely.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC (BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD) IN THE ART, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, MUSIC, HISTORY, RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHERESOEVER SITUATE AND OF OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE IMMIGRATED INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO PROMOTE A GREATER AND WIDER PUBLIC ACCESS (BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD) TO, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE FINE ARTS OF PAINTING, DRAMA, LITERATURE AND MUSIC WHETHER THROUGH PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES OR OTHERWISE

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £2,110,149, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of six months' expenditure. The charity reported a significant surplus of £1,144,681 for the year, driven largely by a legacy and gains on investments, resulting in a total net asset value of £10,852,232.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ad Valorem Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ben Uri Gallery & Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Glasser — Executive Chair (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 31/03/2025)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Michael Denning
• Andrea Cavone
• Andrew Clyne
• DAVID JEREMY GLASSER
• Joanna Renata Mludzinska · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Wisniowski · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: France · Germany · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout London · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

• BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £767k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL income £1.7m
• BENYIMO LIMITED income £167k
• THE BRITISH JEWISH HERITAGE SOCIETY income £339k
• BIG BEN TRUST income £205k
• NEW CURATORS income £711k

Side by side with its peers

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