THE BRITISH ART MEDAL TRUST

Registered charity 288869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

To support the medallic art by means of publications, in particular a twice yearly journal THE MEDAL, and by organising educational activities, such as an annual conference, lectures, exhibitions, an international medal competition for students and by encouraging new medallists.

Objects

FOR (1) THE REVIVAL ENCOURAGEMENT SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDALLIC ART IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (2) THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £6,974, bringing total unrestricted and designated funds to £44,691. The trustees report that the charity continues to support its objects through publications and educational activities, with no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Risk 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 17/11/2025, 17 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 02/12/2024, 32 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Larkin
• Julian Anthony Cross
• MARCY LEAVITT BOURNE
• PHILIP ATTWOOD
• SIR MARK ELLIS POWELL JONES · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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

• THE ARTANGEL TRUST income £1.4m
• METAL CULTURE LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE MOREL CHARITABLE TRUST income £60k
• BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION income £3.4m
• BROADWAY ARTS FESTIVAL TRUST income £239k
• MEDICAL ARTISTS EDUCATION TRUST income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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