DE MORGAN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 310004 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The De Morgan Foundation holds an extensive collection of arts and crafts ceramics by the Victorian ceramicist William De Morgan and oil paintings and drawings by the artist Evelyn De Morgan. The charity's primary objective is the "provision and maintenance of the collection" to a public audience, which the Foundation achieves at its museum, though exhibitions, and a public programme.

Objects

A) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A COLLECTION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC OF PAINTINGS, CERAMICS, AND OTHER WORKS OF ART AND, IN PARTICULAR, OF WORKS OF ART MADE BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN AND HIS ASSOCIATES, PAINTINGS BY EVELYN DE MORGAN AND OTHER WORKS BELONGING TO THE CHARITY AT THE DATE OF THIS SCHEME; AND B) THE PROMOTION OF THE APPRECIATION OF ART AND OF EDUCATION IN ART AND ALLIED SUBJECTS.

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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Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operational surplus of £28,132 in 2025, reversing a previous deficit, while holding unrestricted reserves of approximately £29.6 million against a policy target of three to six months of operating costs. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future and note no material uncertainties regarding going concern, despite acknowledging ongoing financial pressures and flat income relative to increasing costs.

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 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE DE MORGAN TRUSTEE COMPANY LIMITED

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEVON ARTS IN SCHOOLS INITIATIVE.

• DEVON ARTS IN SCHOOLS INITIATIVE income £179k
• MUSEUM OF BRANDS income £851k
• THE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION income £177k
• THE ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCIETY income £121k
• DEREK WILLIAMS TRUST income £248k
• THE WILLIAM MORRIS GALLERY TRUST income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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