IKON GALLERY LIMITED

Registered charity 528892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organise and present exhibitions of contemporary art and artists' projects in the gallery and off-site.Organise and present a range of education activities and projects for the public in the galleries and off site in conjunction with other partners.Operate a bookshop focusing on arts publications and cafe for visitors to the gallery.Produce a range of publications for sale to the public.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE CITIES AND BOROUGHS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS, BY ENCOURAGING THE PRACTICE AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL BUT WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND OTHER VISUAL ARTS

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £154,844 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £4,378,999. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,402,200, with free reserves of £266,775, which the trustees consider adequate to meet potential liabilities. The trustees confirmed that the group is well placed to continue operating, citing secured multi-period funding and cash balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00902136
• Trading subsidiary: OOZELLS TRADING LIMITED Companies House 03095021

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Melanie Pocock — Artistic Director (Exhibitions) (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Freelands Foundation — “Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board Slow Boat , a converted narrow boat. IYP are collaborating with creative thinke…” (source page)
• Arts Council England — “Ikon is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• VON MALAISE, Kirsty — director, appointed 24/09/2025not on trustee list
• GREEN, Martin Keith — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Samuel Vigor — director, appointed 22/11/2023on trustee list
• LEO, James — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• SHAMBI, Sandeep — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• SMYTH, Liam Williams — director, appointed 31/10/2022on trustee list
• BROCKLEHURST, Lee — director, appointed 25/04/2022not on trustee list
• CHIU, Rachel — director, appointed 28/11/2019on trustee list
• RANDHAWA, Harminder — director, appointed 12/07/2019on trustee list
• HYDE, Ian Robert — secretary, appointed 25/07/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 14.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Greenchair
• David Milton
• Harminder Randhawa · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Leo
• Kirsty Von Malaise · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lara Ratnaraja
• Lee Broklehurst
• Liam Smyth
• RACHEL CHIU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruth Marshall
• Samuel Jones
• Sandeep Shambi

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ICON THEATRE.

• ICON THEATRE income £505k
• THE ISOKON GALLERY TRUST income £49k
• INSTITUTE OF CONSERVATION income £847k
• THE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED income £1.1m
• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• WHITECHAPEL GALLERY income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

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