THE HORNIMAN PUBLIC MUSEUM AND PUBLIC PARK TRUST

Registered charity 802725 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HORNIMAN MUSEUM AND GARDENS

Provision of a public, educational Museum and Gardens

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ACQUIRING HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND DOCUMENTING, CONSERVING RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE PARTICULARLY THOSE RELATING TO THE STUDY OF ETHNOGRAPHY, NATURAL HISTORY AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND BY ESTABLISHING ACQUIRING MANAGING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS GALLERIES LIBRARIES AND OTHER SUITABLE PREMISES FOR USE FOR SUCH PURPOSES. (2) THE ACQUISITION, PROVISIONS, ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS FOR THE USE AND RECREATION OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF AND THE CREATION OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO THEIR NATURAL FEATURES, ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1,046,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a surplus. Free reserves stood at £2,604,000, which is significantly above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £700,000. The pension scheme is in surplus, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 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 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Patrick Barker, Edmund Neuberger and Naila Yousuf appointed to the Board of the Horniman Museum and Gardens. gov.uk · 16/06/2025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nick Merriman — Chief Executive (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).

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport — “The Horniman is core funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 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 ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Salter-Church MBEchair
• DIANA MAINE
• Edmund Philip Neuberger
• Eva Appelbaum
• Mayowa Ochere
• Naila Yousuf
• Nicholas Wyver
• Patrick Toshio Barker
• Rodney Phillip Taylor
• Roma Angela Nelson Dibua
• Simon Hesketh
• Somi Umolu

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

Operates in: Greenwich · Lewisham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PM MUSEUM LTD.

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• THE SHARPHAM TRUST income £2.2m
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Side by side with its peers

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