The Museum of the Home

Registered charity 803052 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Museum of the Home, THE GEFFRYE MUSEUM TRUST

Latest income

£3.3m

Latest spending

£3.4m

Registered

1990

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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

Total income

£3.3m

Total spending

£3.4m

Cost of raising funds

£814k

Reserves (reported)

£250k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (03/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Alain Clapham
Alexander David Ely
Arthur Guy Louis Jackson Kay
Caroline Ann Tuke Stoddart
Charles Mark Townshend Colville
Janet Chapman
Jonas James Breton
Katherine Eleanor Mackenzie Hudson
Kurt Christopher Mueller
Rajvi Kantaria
Rania Nur
Rose Mary Hulse
Sir Edward John Watson Gieve

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.3m	£3.4m
31/03/2024	£3.3m	£3.1m
31/03/2023	£3.8m	£3.8m
31/03/2022	£3.9m	£3.4m
31/03/2021	£6.5m	£2.4m

Common questions

Who funds The Museum of the Home?

Funders whose own accounts filings name The Museum of the Home as a grant recipient include NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND, THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, KUSUMA TRUST UK, THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART, THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND	FY2023	£112k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	FY2024	£104k
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2024	£62k
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2025	£62k
THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART	FY2023	£37k
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k
THE I S A CHARITY	FY2025	£8k
THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£3k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/05/2023	£246k	"Museum of the Home - Real Rooms Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/03/2023	£10k	"Rebecca Solomon A Young Teacher Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/05/2022	£10k	"Museum of the Home Collection Rationalisation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/06/2015	£61k	"Portrait of the Freeman Sisters: enhancing collections and engaging audiences at the Geffrye Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/04/2015	£7.2m	"Unlocking the Geffrye (KickstartGIA2020)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	10/06/2014	£9k	"Writing Home: a learning and engagement project at the Geffrye, to commemorate WW1"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	06/11/2013	£75k	"Diversifying income for a sustainable future"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/03/2013	£44k	"Centenary Celebrations"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	15/02/2012	£45k	"My Haggerston"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/04/2011	£519k	"Museum of the Home"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/03/2005	£412k	"At Home 1600-1800"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/02/2003	£157k	"Acquisition of Forbes Collection Paintings"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/02/2002	£150k	"Geffrye Museum - Education and Access"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/11/2000	£50k	"Almshouse Restoration, Geffrye Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/11/1995	£3.8m	"Geffrye Museum, Hackney, London"