THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART FUND

Registered charity 288509 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the advancement of public education in the history of art and architecture and the care, conservation and restoration of works of art for the public benefit by raising funds to support the Courtauld Institute of Art

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. (2) THE CARE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF WORKS OR ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. (3) THE ACCOMMODATION AND PUBLIC DISPLAY OF WORKS OF ART. (4) THE INCREASE OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE. (5) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE PROMOTED BY THE INSTITUTE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves stood at £50,000, which is in line with the trustees' stated policy target of between £30,000 and £60,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of a deficit of £700,000 for the year, largely due to grants made to the Institute exceeding incoming donations. The trustees and auditor confirmed the use of the going concern basis, noting sufficient funds to meet liabilities over the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 07/09/2023, 99 days after the 31/05/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Courtauld Institute of Art (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Mark Louis Hallettchair
• Eleonore Julie Aurelie Valais de Sibert
• Francesca Meera Morris
• Monica Varriale · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Dorothy Price
• Rodney Culliford Jones

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SAMUEL COURTAULD TRUST.

• THE SAMUEL COURTAULD TRUST income £115k
• CHARNWOOD ARTS income £191k
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• DARTFORD ARTS CENTRE income £645k
• THE DAVID ROBERTS ART FOUNDATION LIMITED income £63k
• CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF CREDIT MANAGEMENT income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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