NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND — grant history

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Latest income

£17.7m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£2.5m

Accounts grants total

£5.4m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (27 grantees)
Education/training (24 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (15 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (5 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (9 grantees)
Scotland (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Throughout London (3 grantees)
Cambridgeshire (2 grantees)
Austria (1 grantee)
Australia (1 grantee)
Algeria (1 grantee)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Armenia (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2024
new	Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)	—	£350k
new	The Auckland Project	—	£325k
new	THE BRITISH COUNCIL	—	£150k
new	The Museum of Somerset	—	£150k
new	Gallery Oldham	—	£130k
new	Tate Britain	—	£100k
new	NATIONAL JUSTICE MUSEUM	—	£75k
new	The Box	—	£50k
up	Bodleian Library	£45k	£100k
up	THE GARDEN MUSEUM	£5k	£54k
up	Manchester Art Gallery	£26k	£52k
up	Aberdeen Art Gallery	£7k	£48k
down	Ulster Museum	£150k	£32k
up	The Whitworth	£7k	£15k
down	Art Night	£30k	£10k
down	Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	£119k	£10k
not listed	National Portrait Gallery	£2.5m	—
not listed	Leighton House Museum	£401k	—
not listed	Kirkcaldy Galleries	£350k	—
not listed	National Museum of Scotland	£250k	—
not listed	Fitzwilliam Museum	£204k	—
not listed	William Morris Gallery	£200k	—
not listed	Brodsworth Hall and Gardens (English Heritage)	£150k	—
not listed	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art	£123k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)	FY2024	£350k	London
The Auckland Project	FY2024	£325k	Bishop Auckland
British Council	FY2024	£150k	London
The Museum of Somerset	FY2024	£150k	Taunton
Gallery Oldham	FY2024	£130k	Oldham
Tate Britain	FY2024	£100k	London
Bodleian Library	FY2024	£100k	Oxford
National Justice Museum	FY2024	£75k	Nottingham
Towner Eastbourne	FY2024	£58k	Eastbourne
Garden Museum	FY2024	£54k	London
Manchester Art Gallery	FY2024	£52k	Manchester
The Box	FY2024	£50k	Plymouth
Leeds City Council	FY2024	£50k	Leeds
Aberdeen Art Gallery	FY2024	£48k	Aberdeen
Charleston	FY2024	£40k	Lewes
The Holburne Museum	FY2024	£40k	Bath
National Museum Wales	FY2024	£40k	Cardiff
Mount Stewart (National Trust)	FY2024	£37k	Newtownards
Create London jointly with Valence House Museum	FY2024	£34k	London
The Huntarian	FY2024	£32k	Glasgow
Ulster Museum	FY2024	£32k	Belfast
Eltham Palace (English Heritage)	FY2024	£26k	London
National Science and Media Museum	FY2024	£22k	Bradford
The Historic Dockyard Chatham	FY2024	£21k	Chatham
Captain Cook Memorial Museum	FY2024	£20k	Whitby
Historic Royal Palaces	FY2024	£20k	London
Wolverhampton Art Gallery	FY2024	£19k	Wolverhampton
Sainsbury Centre	FY2024	£17k	Norwich
Paisley Museum	FY2024	£16k	Paisley
The Whitworth	FY2024	£15k	Manchester
Liverpool Biennial with Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery	FY2024	£15k	North West
Arts Council Collection	FY2024	£14k	London
Wrest Park (English Heritage)	FY2024	£14k	Silsoe
University of Stirling Art Collection	FY2024	£14k	Stirling
The McManus	FY2024	£13k	Dundee
Nottingham University	FY2024	£13k	Nottingham
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery	FY2024	£13k	Carlisle
Horniman Museum and Gardens	FY2024	£13k	London
Reading Museum	FY2024	£11k	Reading
Museums Sheffield	FY2024	£11k	Sheffield
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery	FY2024	£11k	London
Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)	FY2024	£10k	London
Art Night	FY2024	£10k	Dundee
Hestercombe Gardens	FY2024	£10k	Taunton
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2024	£10k	Norwich
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery	FY2024	£10k	Exeter
National Army Museum	FY2024	£10k	London
Sainsbury Centre	FY2024	£10k	Norwich
Penlee House Gallery & Museum	FY2024	£9k	Penzance
Liverpool Maritime Museum	FY2024	£8k	Liverpool
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2024	£8k	Norwich
Harewood House	FY2024	£7k	Leeds
Ashmolean Museum	FY2024	£7k	Oxford
Hunterian Museum	FY2024	£7k	London
The Women’s Art Collection	FY2024	£7k	Cambridge
Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft	FY2024	£7k	Ditchling
'a space' arts	FY2024	£6k	Southampton
The Oxfordshire Museum	FY2024	£6k	Woodstock
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum	FY2024	£6k	Bournemouth
Stained Glass Museum	FY2024	£6k	Ely
Perth Museum	FY2024	£5k	Perth
Stanley Spencer Gallery	FY2024	£5k	Maidenhead
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)	FY2024	£5k	Glasgow
Pier Arts Centre	FY2024	£5k	Stromness
Y Gaer Museum	FY2024	£5k	Brecon
Strawberry Hill House & Garden	FY2024	£4k	London
Manx National Heritage	FY2024	£4k	Douglas
Towner Eastbourne	FY2024	£4k	Eastbourne
Sainsbury Centre	FY2024	£4k	Norwich
Wiltshire Museum	FY2024	£3k	Devizes
School of Art, Aberystwyth University	FY2024	£3k	Aberystwyth
Leighton House	FY2024	£3k	London
Lamb Gallery	FY2024	£2k	Dundee
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2024	£2k	Norwich
The Armitt	FY2024	£2k	Ambleside
School of Art, Aberystwyth University	FY2024	£2k	Aberystwyth
West Berkshire Museum	FY2024	£2k	Newbury
Charles Dickens Museum	FY2024	£2k	London
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2024	£1k	Norwich
Halesworth and District Museum	FY2024	£1k	Halesworth
Wiltshire Museum	FY2024	£528	Devizes
National Portrait Gallery	FY2023	£2.5m	Acquisition grant
Leighton House Museum	FY2023	£401k	Acquisition grant
Kirkcaldy Galleries	FY2023	£350k	Acquisition grant
National Museum of Scotland	FY2023	£250k	Acquisition grant
Fitzwilliam Museum	FY2023	£204k	Acquisition grant
William Morris Gallery	FY2023	£200k	Acquisition grant
Brodsworth Hall and Gardens (English Heritage)	FY2023	£150k	Acquisition grant
Ulster Museum	FY2023	£150k	Acquisition grant
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art	FY2023	£123k	Acquisition grant
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£119k	Acquisition grant
Museum of the Home	FY2023	£112k	Acquisition grant
Victoria and Albert Museum	FY2023	£110k	Acquisition grant
National Museum Wales	FY2023	£60k	Acquisition grant
Scottish National Gallery	FY2023	£54k	Acquisition grant
The Hepworth Wakefield	FY2023	£50k	Acquisition grant
The Hunterian	FY2023	£50k	Acquisition grant
Sunderland Culture	FY2023	£50k	Acquisition grant
Towner Eastbourne	FY2023	£46k	Acquisition grant
Bodleian Library	FY2023	£45k	Acquisition grant
Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£42k	Acquisition grant
Leeds Art Gallery	FY2023	£42k	Acquisition grant
Museum of Somerset	FY2023	£42k	Acquisition grant
Crafts Council	FY2023	£42k	Acquisition grant
National Museum of the Royal Navy	FY2023	£40k	Acquisition grant
Artangel	FY2023	£40k	Acquisition grant
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£40k	Acquisition grant
Scottish National Portrait Gallery	FY2023	£39k	Acquisition grant
Art Night	FY2023	£30k	Acquisition grant
Chisenhale Gallery	FY2023	£30k	Acquisition grant
Victoria and Albert Museum	FY2023	£30k	Acquisition grant
Scottish National Portrait Gallery	FY2023	£28k	Acquisition grant
Manchester Art Gallery	FY2023	£26k	Acquisition grant
Hackney Council	FY2023	£25k	Acquisition grant
National Museums Scotland	FY2023	£23k	Acquisition grant
Museum of Somerset	FY2023	£22k	Acquisition grant
Sainsbury Centre	FY2023	£20k	Acquisition grant
Danum Gallery, Library & Museum	FY2023	£20k	Acquisition grant
Royal Armouries Museum	FY2023	£20k	Acquisition grant
London Forma	FY2023	£20k	Acquisition grant
Sainsbury Centre	FY2023	£18k	Acquisition grant
National Museum Wales	FY2023	£18k	Acquisition grant
Create London	FY2023	£16k	Acquisition grant
The Norris Museum	FY2023	£15k	Acquisition grant
Royal Air Force Museum	FY2023	£15k	Acquisition grant
Christchurch Mansion	FY2023	£14k	Acquisition grant
Paxton House	FY2023	£12k	Acquisition grant
Fry Art Gallery	FY2023	£11k	Acquisition grant
Leicester Gallery	FY2023	£10k	Acquisition grant
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum	FY2023	£10k	Acquisition grant
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£10k	Acquisition grant
The Hunterian	FY2023	£9k	Acquisition grant
Pembroke College	FY2023	£8k	Acquisition grant
Pallant House Gallery	FY2023	£8k	Acquisition grant
Fairfax House	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
Leeds Art Gallery	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
Aberdeen Art Gallery	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
The Foundling Museum	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
The Whitworth	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
Pallant House Gallery	FY2023	£7k	Acquisition grant
Bushey Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£6k	Acquisition grant
Garden Museum	FY2023	£5k	Acquisition grant
Pallant House Gallery	FY2023	£5k	Acquisition grant
Sainsbury Centre	FY2023	£5k	Acquisition grant
The Foundling Museum	FY2023	£5k	Acquisition grant
Royal West of England Academy (RWA)	FY2023	£5k	Acquisition grant
The Stewartry Museum	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
Wardlaw Museum	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
St Agnes Museum	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
De Morgan Foundation	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
Lewes Castle & Barbican House Museum	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
Pallant House Gallery	FY2023	£4k	Acquisition grant
Paisley Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Aberdeen Art Gallery	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Stained Glass Museum	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Garden Museum	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Newton Abbot Museum	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
Chippenham Museum	FY2023	£3k	Acquisition grant
The Hepworth Wakefield	FY2023	£2k	Acquisition grant
King John’s Hunting Lodge Museum (National Trust)	FY2023	£2k	Acquisition grant
Salisbury Museum	FY2023	£2k	Acquisition grant
Wiltshire Museum	FY2023	£2k	Acquisition grant
Leighton House	FY2023	£1k	Acquisition grant
The Oxford Museum	FY2023	£1k	Acquisition grant
National Portrait Gallery	FY2022	£2.5m	Acquisition of Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Mai (Omai)
Derby Museum and Art Gallery	FY2022	£366k	Acquisition of Joseph Wright of Derby, Self-Portrait at the Age of About Forty
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery	FY2022	£250k	Acquisition of Herefordshire Hoard
Hackney Council, London	FY2022	£191k	Hackney Windrush Art Commissions
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh	FY2022	£70k	Acquisition of Telemaco Signorini, View of Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh
Ulster Museum, Belfast	FY2022	£40k	Acquisition of Array Collective, The Druthaib’s Ball
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	FY2022	£35k	Acquisition of Ali Kazim, Untitled works
Towner Eastbourne	FY2022	£25k	Acquisition of Jananne Al-Ani, Timelines
Design Museum, London	FY2022	£18k	Acquisition of Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kinshasa Label
Stained Glass Museum, Ely	FY2022	£8k	Acquisition of Wilhelmina Geddes and Charles Francis Blakeman, Faith, Hope and Charity
Crafts Study Centre, Farnham	FY2022	£5k	Acquisition of Bernard Leach, Dish with inscription by William Blake
Y Lanfa Powysland Museum and Welshpool Library	FY2022	£4k	Acquisition of three gold coins
V&A, London	FY2022	£4k	Acquisition of Nicki Green, Nontactile Contact in Three Parts
Wakefield, Hepworth Wakefield	FY2021	£500k	Acquisitions
London, National Gallery	FY2021	£300k	Acquisitions
South East, Portsmouth, National Museum of the Royal Navy	FY2021	£200k	Acquisitions
South West, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum	FY2021	£152k	Acquisitions
Sudbury, Gainsborough's House	FY2021	£150k	Acquisitions
London, National Army Museum	FY2021	£135k	Acquisitions
London, Science Museum	FY2021	£127k	Acquisitions
Ely, Stained Glass Museum	FY2021	£107k	Acquisitions
London, V&A East	FY2021	£86k	Acquisitions
London, Imperial War Museum	FY2021	£85k	Acquisitions
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, jointly with Wolverhampton Art Gallery	FY2021	£75k	Acquisitions
Belfast, Ulster Museum	FY2021	£70k	Acquisitions
London, The Queen’s House, National Maritime Museum	FY2021	£60k	Acquisitions
London, Studio Voltaire	FY2021	£57k	Acquisitions
London, V&A	FY2021	£50k	Acquisitions
London, Hayward Gallery	FY2021	£50k	Acquisitions
London, Hackney Council	FY2021	£48k	Acquisitions
London, British Museum	FY2021	£45k	Acquisitions
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, jointly with Leeds Art Gallery	FY2021	£45k	Acquisitions
Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff	FY2021	£42k	Acquisitions
London, V&A	FY2021	£40k	Acquisitions
Dorchester, Dorset County Museum	FY2021	£40k	Acquisitions
North West, Manchester, Walker Art Gallery	FY2021	£37k	Acquisitions
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery	FY2021	£35k	Acquisitions
London, Science Museum	FY2021	£32k	Acquisitions
North West, Manchester, The Whitworth	FY2021	£30k	Acquisitions
Turriff, Fyvie Castle (National Trust for Scotland)	FY2021	£29k	Acquisitions
Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff	FY2021	£25k	Acquisitions
South West, Oxford, The Ashmolean	FY2021	£23k	Acquisitions
London, Create London	FY2021	£22k	Acquisitions
London, Forma Arts & Media, jointly with Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff; Edinburgh, National Galleries Scotland; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool; London, Guildhall Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; and Plymouth, The Box	FY2021	£20k	Acquisitions
Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff	FY2021	£20k	Acquisitions
Lincoln, The Collection	FY2021	£20k	Acquisitions
Cambridge University Library	FY2021	£20k	Acquisitions
Dundee, The McManus	FY2021	£20k	Acquisitions
London, Royal College of Music Museum	FY2021	£19k	Acquisitions
South West, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum	FY2021	£15k	Acquisitions
Glasgow, GOMA	FY2021	£12k	Acquisitions
East Midlands, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle	FY2021	£11k	Acquisitions
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire Museum	FY2021	£10k	Acquisitions
North West, Oldham, Gallery Oldham	FY2021	£10k	Acquisitions
Aberdeen Art Gallery	FY2021	£10k	Acquisitions
London, National Army Museum	FY2021	£9k	Acquisitions
Llanefni, Oriel Môn	FY2021	£8k	Acquisitions
Ipswich, Christchurch Mansion	FY2021	£8k	Acquisitions
North West, Manchester, The Whitworth	FY2021	£7k	Acquisitions
East Anglia, Spalding, Ayscoughfee Hall Museum	FY2021	£7k	Acquisitions
London, National Army Museum	FY2021	£7k	Acquisitions
South West, Salisbury, The Salisbury Museum	FY2021	£6k	Acquisitions
Glasgow, The Hunterian	FY2021	£6k	Acquisitions
London, Leighton House	FY2021	£6k	Acquisitions
North West, Manchester Art Gallery	FY2021	£5k	Acquisitions
Stirling, University of Stirling Art Collection	FY2021	£4k	Acquisitions
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery	FY2021	£4k	Acquisitions
North West, Rochdale, Touchstones Rochdale	FY2021	£4k	Acquisitions
Hartlepool Art Gallery	FY2021	£4k	Acquisitions
London, Royal College of Music Museum	FY2021	£4k	Acquisitions
London, Garden Museum	FY2021	£3k	Acquisitions
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery	FY2021	£3k	Acquisitions
Armitt Library and Museum Centre	FY2021	£3k	Acquisitions
Stromness, Pier Arts Centre	FY2021	£3k	Acquisitions
Central Southern, Luton, Wardown House Museum & Gallery	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
Woodstock, Oxfordshire Museum	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
East Anglia, Saffron Walden, Fry Art Gallery	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
East Anglia, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
East Anglia, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum	FY2021	£2k	Acquisitions
Stromness, Pier Arts Centre	FY2021	£1k	Acquisitions
North West, Manchester, The Whitworth	FY2021	£1k	Acquisitions
East Anglia, St Albans, Verulamium Museum	FY2021	£1k	Acquisitions
Herne Bay, The Seaside Museum	FY2021	£622	Acquisitions

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 2480769 vs reference 5400000 (54.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.