OCTOBER GALLERY TRUST

Registered charity 327032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCTOBER GALLERY

The October Gallery is an arts complex dedicated to the appreciation of the transvangarde - the cross-cultural avant garde. The Gallery hosts exhibitions of art from around the world, talks on art and science, poetry readings, theatre and dance performances. Support is from sales of art, rental of the Gallery's unique facilities, grants, donations, staff, volunteers and friends.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF CULTURES FOREIGN AS WELL AS THOSE INDIGENOUS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE PROMOTION OF INTERCULTURAL ACTIVITIES.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit on unrestricted funds of £645,760 for the year, primarily due to decreased art sales and adverse exchange rate fluctuations. Despite this, the trustees report that free reserves of £511,340 remain above their stated policy target of £500,000, which is based on five months of running costs. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chris Syrimis & Co. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — October Gallery (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chili Hawes — Director (source)
• Elisabeth Lalouschek — Artistic Director & Art Sales (source)
• Stefani Abadian-Crone — Director of Operations (source)
• Ian Goodfellow — Trustee (Deputy 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (36% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN GOODFELLOWchair
• CHRISTOPHER JAMES SPRING
• Corrine Bougaard
• DEBORAH SNYDER
• David Hernandez
• Sussan Babaie · 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

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHISENHALE GALLERY.

• CHISENHALE GALLERY income £838k
• HARROGATE ARTS AND MERCER GALLERY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £49k
• WHITECHAPEL GALLERY income £3.5m
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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