THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST

Registered charity 299509 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the Trust are the advancement of education and the charitable objects of the National Gallery. The Trust achieves this by making grants to organisations.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 unrestricted free reserves totalled £57.0 million, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet future funding obligations. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £473,350 for the year, supported by total income of £8.4 million against total expenditure of £11.5 million. The Trustees confirmed the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~59.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ross
• CAROLINE THOMSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Sebag-Montefiore CBE
• David Symondson
• Isabel Emo Capodilista
• John Booth
• Katrin Henkel · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST income £538k
• THE NATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST income £5.2m
• THE BRITISH LIBRARY COLLECTIONS TRUST income £1.7m
• INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL TRUSTS ORGANISATION income £1.1m
• MK GALLERY income £1.8m
• CASTLEFIELD GALLERY income £671k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.