THE DESIGN MUSEUM

Registered charity 800630 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of The Design Museum is to operate charitable and educational activities located at the Museum in London and the trading activities of the subsidiary, Design Museum Enterprises Limited.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the museum reported a net surplus of £2.3m for the year, driven by growth in programme and trading activities. However, the charity holds nil unrestricted free reserves, falling below its stated policy target of six months' operating costs. The museum remains dependent on securing future funding and maintaining visitor engagement to ensure long-term financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02325092
• Trading subsidiary: DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02330977

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Design Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Stuart and Bianca Roden — “Principal Funders Stuart and Bianca Roden” (source page)
• Art Fund — “Trusts, Foundations and Major Donors Art Fund” (source page)
• Bloomberg — “Current Corporate Partners Bloomberg” (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.

• AZUMI, Tomoko — director, appointed 18/06/2024on trustee list
• ZENIOS, Jonathan David — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• LITTLER, Jenna Caroline — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• RODEN, Stuart — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• KHAN, Suhair Fariha — director, appointed 19/10/2022on trustee list
• JIRICNA, Eva Magdalena — director, appointed 10/05/2022on trustee list
• DANA, Dahlia — director, appointed 09/05/2022on trustee list
• BOSTER, Susan Arleen — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• FIELD, Dominic James — director, appointed 13/10/2021on trustee list
• OGUNDEHIN, Michelle — director, appointed 26/04/2021on trustee list
• VON MALLINCKRODT, Davina Anne Lore — director, appointed 14/06/2017not on trustee list
• DOLLIMORE, Richard — secretary, appointed 09/12/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (44% 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: 34.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart Rodenchair
• Dahlia Dana
• Davina Anne Lore VON MALLINCKRODT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dominic James Field
• Eva Magdalena Jiricna
• Jenna Caroline Littler
• Jonathan David Zenios
• Michelle Ogundehin
• SEBASTIAN ORBY CONRAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suhair Fariha Khan · trustee of 3 other charities
• Susan Arleen Boster
• Tomoko Azumi

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• SEBASTIAN ORBY CONRAN — trustee here and at THE CONRAN FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED.

• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• THEATRE DESIGN COURSE LIMITED income £100k
• MUSEUM OF BRANDS income £784k
• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM income £2.0m
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS income £427k

Side by side with its peers

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