Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 11

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 22

THE PUBLIC CATALOGUE FOUNDATION

Art UK is a cultural education charity on a mission to make the art in UK public collections accessible to everyone, for enjoyment, learning and research. We enable global audiences to learn about the nation's art collection by digitising artworks, telling the stories behind the art and creating exciting opportunities for public interaction with art, both online and offline.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/24		£2,290	£2,058	£232	£98	£773	£207	1.2	35	112
31/03/23		£1,936	£1,660	£277	£132	£541	£92	0.7	34	61
31/03/22		£1,522	£1,705	£-183	£117	£264	£131	0.9	32	170
31/03/21		£2,003	£1,790	£213	£120	£447	£286	1.9	35	150
31/03/20?		£2,257	£2,325	£-68	£115	£234	£93	0.5	38	159
31/03/18		£1,087	£1,172	£-84	£67	£247	£-23	-0.2	23	0
31/03/17		£847	£772	£76	£64	£332	£48	0.7	12	0
31/03/16		£999	£872	£127	£50	£256	£182	2.5	14	0
31/03/15		£418	£534	£-116	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£662	£803	£-142	£31	£135	£135	2	10	0
31/03/13	*	£1,024	£1,052	£-28	£66	£277	£152	1.7	14	0
31/03/12		£1,720	£1,463	£257	£66	£305	£164	1.3	16	0
31/03/11		£1,161	£1,207	£-46	£51	£48	£-100	-1	13	0
31/03/10		£567	£770	£-203	£38	£94	£-29	-0.4	9	0
31/03/09		£746	£676	£70	£49	£297	£260	4.6	8	0
31/03/08		£804	£644	£160	£72	£227	£209	3.9	7	0
31/03/07	*	£810	£525	£285	£42	£67	£68	1.6	5	0
31/03/06	*	£401	£360	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£225	£302	£-77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£63	£246	£-183	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 27%
Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 22 years

www.artuk.org.uk

info@artuk.org

01158386175

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Art galleries and exhibitions

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£232,958
Garfield Weston Foundation	£225,000
John Ellerman Foundation	£81,425
The Pilgrim Trust	£60,000
The Foyle Foundation	£25,000
Esmee Fairbairn	£25,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Art UK
£60,000	04/12/2023	Art UK Murals Digitisation Programme
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£21,001	02/10/2023	Art UK Murals Digitisation and Engagement Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£150,000	15/05/2023 36	£150,000 over three years (£50,000 per year) towards Digital Support work
DCMS - Investment funds
£232,958	09/02/2023	We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of ....more We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government to help deliver this vision.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000	16/09/2021	towards growing the impact of the income generating Art UK Shop
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000	09/07/2021	Art UK - Growing Impact
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000	30/09/2020	unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
John Ellerman Foundation - Salary of additional Art Detective Officer, marketing, technology and administrative costs
£81,425	21/05/2020 24	Salary of additional Art Detective Officer, marketing, technology and administrative costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£25,000	28/04/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Art UK
£20,000	13/06/2019	Online schools learning portal
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£150,000	21/12/2016 36	Towards the public engagement elements of a major project which aims to digitise and catalogue sculpture in public ownership in the UK.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£2,935,400	18/11/2014	Art UK Sculpture: Connecting UK Communities with their Sculpture Heritage
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£100,000	28/03/2012	Towards the costs of completing the digitisation programme for the Your Paintings website.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Public Catalogue Foundation
£240,000	30/09/2009 36	Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the cost of creating digital content for the 'Your Paintings' website.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (15)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 13/15 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-63

AVRIL CATHERINE BURNS MARTINDALE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Company Director

CATHERINE HOLDEN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Independent Culture And Heritage Consultant

DR CAROLINE MARGARET CAMPBELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Curator And Museum Director

GEORGE EDWARD ENTWISTLE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: None

HASAN BAKHSHI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of The Creative Industries Policy Centre

JOHN FREDERICK STACK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Digital Director

KIMBERLEY JANE STREETS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Charity Ceo

KATHLEEN SORIANO (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Broadcaster

LISA WONG Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

PROFESSOR CAROLA BOEHM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Academic

PROFESSOR JAGO COOPER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Executive Director

SARAH RUTH HAYDEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

SHERECE RAINFORD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Business Strategy Manager

THOMAS GWYN DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo

THOMAS MARKS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Magazine Editor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/02/2003, number: 1096185
Registered at Companies House on 25/10/2002, number: 04573564

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 69 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR06: 1 days late,

Main office

Art UK
Staffordshire Univ Incubator Unit
2nd Floor
Mellor Building
College Road
Stoke on

Objectives

1 TO RESEARCH, PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION IN RELATION TO, AND TO PROMOTE, PUBLISH AND PROVIDE CATALOGUES OF PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND OTHER WORKS OF ART, INCLUDING ASSOCIATING WITH MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND ORGANISATIONS AFFILIATED WITH ART, IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE ARTS AND EDUCATION GENERALLY; 2 TO ENCOURAGE, ASSIST, ARRANGE AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE RESTORATION OF PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS OF ART HELD OR OWNED BY MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS MAKING WORKS OF ART AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND TO COOPERATE WITH, ASSIST AND SUPPORT SUCH MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER BODIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE SAME; 3 TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE WORKS OF ART AND THE ARTS IN GENERAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN AND TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF, AND PUBLIC INTEREST IN, THE ARTS GENERALLY; 4 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION CHARITABLE MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS MAKING WORKS OF ART AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES IN THE ARTS SECTOR; AND 5 TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER TO BE ANCILLARY OR COMPLIMENTARY TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS OR WHICH MAY BE UNDERTAKEN IN CONNECTION OR CONJUNCTION THEREWITH

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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