Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE FREUD MUSEUM LONDON 

The Freud Museum exists to promote the intellectual and cultural legacy of Sigmund Freud's life and work and to further their contemporary relevance through educational activities and exhibitions. The museum conserves Freud's last home at 20 Maresfield Gardens with its antiquities collection and archives, as a historical memorial to his life and work and as a source of inspiration and enjoyment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£732£775£-42£110£4,086£2333.62010
31/03/22£630£665£-35£101£4,128£2594.7185
31/03/21£651£542£109£50£4,162£2826.3180
31/03/20£698£669£29£92£4,053£2163.91820
31/03/19£728£699£29£122£4,024£2664.61720
31/03/18£647£646£1£94£3,995£2374.4180
31/03/17£558£547£11£117£3,994£2355.2140
31/03/16£481£447£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£448£425£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£535£554£-18£44£3,925£1583.4100
31/03/13£381£440£-59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£414£434£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£437£404£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£335£348£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£355£356£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£417£294£124£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£247£246£1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 18%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 14.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 6%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 18 years

www.freud.org.uk

info@freud.org.uk

02074352002

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Freud Museum Recovery
£80,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Freud Museum Recovery 2021
£40,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Freud Museum London
£4,890 19/06/2019
£4,890 to commission an independent access audit and subsequent appraisal of proposed plans.
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - Freud and Dali
£6,000 11/09/2018
5
The Freud Museum London is mounting an exhibition Freud, Dali and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus in autumn 2018. This explores the connection between Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud, two of the most ....more
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - Play at the Freud Museum 2017
£12,500 21/06/2017
4
The Freud Museum’s exhibition aims to attract new family audiences to the Freud Museum and use art, oral histories and interactives to explore psychoanalysis and play.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-74
  • SUSANNA ABSE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
  • SUZANNE BARDGETT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Research & Academic Partnerships
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/01/2006, number: 1112854
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/05/2005, number: 05467415
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
17 returns made; all on time
Main office

FREUD MUSEUM
20 MARESFIELD GARDENS
LONDON
NW3 5SX

Objectives

3.1.1 TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, IMPROVE, ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF THE LIFE, WORK, MEDICAL, PSYCHOANALYTIC AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND INTELLECTUAL AND CURRENT CULTURAL LEGACY OF THE LATE SIGMUND FREUD, AND KNOWLDEGE AND AWARENESS OF THEIR RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY; 3.1.2 TO MAINTAIN, OPERATE AND IMPROVE A MUSEUM TO COLLECT, SAFEGUARD AND MAKE ACCESSIBLE ARTICLES AND OTHER ITEMS CONNECTED WITH HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS FAMILY, IN PARTICULAR HIS DAUGHTER ANNA FREUD, AND THE HISTORY OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS ('THE COLLECTION') AT THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 20 MAREFIELD GARDENS, LONDON NW3 5SX AND AT SUCH OTHER PROPERTY AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE REQUIRED OR EXPEDIENT ('THE PREMISES') AND TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE PREMISES TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT THEY CAN EXPLORE THE MUSEUM AND ITS COLLECTIONS FOR INSPIRATION, LEARNING AND ENJOYMENT; 3.1.3 TO ADVANCE THE APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORICAL NATURE OF THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 20 MARESFIELD GARDENS, LONDON NW3 5SX AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS THE LATE SIGMUND FREUD'S LAST HOME, THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH AND THE REPOSITORY OF HIS STUDY, LIBRARY, COUCH AND COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES AND OTHER ARTICLES CONNECTED TO HIM;3.1.4 TO DISCOVER, ASSEMBLE, COLLECT BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, OTHER PUBLICATIONS, FURNITURE, INFORMATION AND ARTICLES OF WHATEVER KIND RELATING TO THE LIFE, WORK MEDICAL, PSYCHOANALYTIC AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND INTELLECTUAL LEGACY OF THE LATE SIGMUND FREUD, AND TO ENSURE THEIR PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND3.1.5 TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE LIFE, WORK, MEDICAL, PSYCHOANALYTIC AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF THE LATE SIGMUND FREUD AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

20 MARESFIELD GARDENS, LONDON NW3 5SX AND AT SUCH OTHER PROPERTY AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE REQUIRED OR EXPEDIENT

Data Sources

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