Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 2

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 5

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION

The Objects of the Charity are to advance the education of the public by promoting and supporting the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world, in particular by promoting or supporting such of the Charitable Objectives of the NHM as the Trustees determine from time to time and (save for purposes incidental and ancillary to those Objects) no other purposes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity only provides its support via other charities
The Board is predominantly male
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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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
31/03/23		£10	£6	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£0	£25	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£0	£5	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£0	£5	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	*	£8	£5	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	*	£8	£5	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17		£10	£3	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16		£13	£219	£-206	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15		£155	£6,158	£-6,004	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/14		£3,371	£743	£2,628	£23	£6,237	£27	0.4	0
31/03/13		£3,628	£19	£3,609	£19	£3,609	£9	5.9	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

NHMfoundation@nhm.ac.uk

02079425000

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Hertfordshire, Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:Darwin Partnership 202-Investigating the soil biodiversity of western Madagascar for ecosystem restoration
£8,038	01/04/2019	The main thread of the project will be developing local capacity to document and understand patterns of soil biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. Then applying this to the land ....more The main thread of the project will be developing local capacity to document and understand patterns of soil biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. Then applying this to the land management practices currently in place. The work will be carried out in the Antrema forest, a 20,000 ha area of mixed habitat in Western Madagascar. This is a region of savanna and dry forest, poorly studied, but known to be of exceptional conservation value.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Dinosaurs & Robots
£815,794	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104901
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Reef refugia out of the shadows: dynamics of marginal coral reef ecosystems over the past 30 million years in the Coral Triangle
£496,431	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R011044/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Making a solar system: A recipe for worlds
£304,310	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/R000727/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - STFC NHM 2018 DTP
£82,332	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/S505584/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A coupled climate-vegetation-mammal-human model for simulating Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions
£602,680	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Bee sensitivity to a century of agricultural land-use change.
£169,329	01/05/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - From arc magmas to ores (FAMOS): A mineral systems approach
£360,995	01/05/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NSFDEB-NERC: The evolution of visual systems during major life history transitions in frogs
£122,166	01/04/2017	To support high quality research
DCMS - DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund
£100,000	01/04/2017	The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled ....more The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-79

DAGMARA ALICJA PUDDICK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Management Consultant

LISA RONSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director

STEPHEN BRIAN PEARSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

MICHAEL HERINGTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Counsel

STEVE LARCOMBE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chairman

HARVEY SONING Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SECONDARY SCHOOL TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2012, number: 1146384
Registered at Companies House on 15/02/2012, number: 07951088

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management

Filing Record

11 returns made; AR19: 3 days late, AR18: 1 days late,

Main office

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
CROMWELL ROAD
LONDON
SW7 5BD

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE DISCOVERY, UNDERSTANDING, RESPONSIBLE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE NATURAL WORLD, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING OR SUPPORTING SUCH OF THE CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME AND (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS) NO OTHER PURPOSES.

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