Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
    • Overall weighted support: +11
    Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

    WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

    The Charitable organisation main objectives are:The provision and maintenance of an art gallery for exhibition to the public of modern and historical fine art; modern and historical design and applied art; and work done by school children and local communities.Promoting and encouraging the education of the public in the arts both in the Gallery and elsewhere.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has a robust balance sheet
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • This charity uses a corporate trustee

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

    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
    31/03/23£4,109£5,269£-1,161£778£16,825£6,72815.31021
    31/03/22£4,496£4,723£-227£658£18,125£7,891201010
    31/03/21£5,115£3,938£1,177£592£18,198£7,04521.5770
    31/03/20£4,239£4,759£-520£648£16,794£5,39213.61190
    31/03/19*£4,495£4,912£-417£681£17,487£5,81814.26812
    31/03/18£4,299£4,458£-159£1,078£17,875£6,08516.4680
    31/03/17£4,165£4,575£-410£614£18,021£6,01115.8640
    31/03/16£3,937£4,688£-751£566£18,168£6,09115.6680
    31/03/15*£4,164£5,059£-895£1,122£17,533£6,09114.4580
    02/04/14£4,097£4,638£-540£1,075£18,142£5,89015.2600
    31/03/13*£4,463£4,893£-430£1,088£18,528£6,23815.3650
    31/03/12£3,919£4,449£-530£1,064£18,743£6,67118630
    31/03/11*£4,273£3,983£291£1,004£19,118£6,78920.5520
    31/03/10£5,085£4,126£959£1,244£16,144£6,95320.2450
    31/03/09£2,151£2,094£57£1,547£15,129£6,69238.3340
    31/03/08£4,686£2,056£2,630£1,468£10,647£6,76639.5310
    31/03/07£6,084£2,486£3,598£903£8,061£6,59231.8300
    31/03/06£2,638£2,897£-259n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/05*£2,343£2,572£-230n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/04*£1,584£1,661£-77n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.6%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 15%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
    Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 5%
    Liabilities/Income: 22%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 40%
    Reserves/Spending: 15.3 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
    Quick Ratio: 1.2
    Asset Split ?
    Balance Sheet History
    Established: 62 years

    www.whitechapelgallery.org

    directorsassistant@whitechapelgallery.org

    02075227888

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Art galleries and exhibitions
    How it operates
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout London,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • 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£2,303,037
    The Foyle Foundation£100,000
    The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art£45,000
    City Bridge Trust£22,600
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - Curatorial Research Grant
    £40,000 23/11/2023
    Support towards the curatorial research project Expanding the Contemporary British Art Canon: New research, exhibitions and publications on the work of Hamad Butt, Joy Gregory and Gavin Jantjes
    The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - Publication Grant
    £5,000 23/11/2023
    Support towards the publication Whitechapel Gallery: A Legacy in Public Education 1979–1990 (WIP title only)
    The Foyle Foundation - Arts
    £100,000 29/11/2022
    towards essential roof works to the main exhibition spaces
    DCMS - Whitechapel Gallery
    £18,563 25/01/2021
    Survey of roof, removal/renovation of windows, repairs.
    DCMS - Whitechapel Gallery
    £6,187 25/01/2021
    Survey of roof, removal/renovation of windows, repairs.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Whitechapel Gallery
    £22,600 14/06/2020
    £22,600 towards remaining costs of your project as outlined in your application
    The Grocers' Charity - 2020 The Whitechapel Art Gallery
    £1,500 04/06/2020
    Opportunities, education and skills development of creative talent for artists with financing challenges or disability support requirements
    DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
    £1,537,955 01/04/2020
    The wider aim of the scheme is: 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 ....more
    DCMS - Whitechapel Gallery
    £534,000 01/04/2020
    To support Arts and Culture throughout England
    DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund Round 2
    £206,332 01/04/2020
    To support Arts and Culture throughout England
    The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Whitechapel Gallery
    £5,000 18/03/2020
    Opportunities, education and skills development of creative talent for artists with financing challenges or disability support requirements
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Voices that Matter: Women, Art, Collaboration
    £60,000 13/03/2019
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    To co-develop a creative Women's Forum to embed the voices of local Black, Asian and minority ethnic women and community support organisations in the gallery’s programme.
    Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Whitechapel Art Gallery
    £10,000 08/12/2016
    Audio-visual equipment
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Whitechapel Gallery
    £276,800 21/05/2013
    Skills for the Future: Whitechapel Gallery: Heritage Traineeship Programme
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (1)

    • WHITECHAPEL GALLERY TRUSTEE LIMITED
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/02/1963, number: 312162
    • Registered at Companies House on 20/10/2000, number: 04093862
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; AR19: 301 days late, AR15: 77 days late, AR13: 27 days late, AR11: 12 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
    Main office

    77-82 WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET
    WHITECHAPEL
    E1 7QX

    Objectives

    1. THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ART GALLERY FOR EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF: (A) MODERN AND HISTORICAL FINE ART (B) MODERN AND HISTORICAL DESIGN AND APPLIED ART (C) WORK DOME BY SCHOOL CHILDREN OR STUDENTS OR BY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE ART GALLERY. 2. PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS BOTH IN THE ART GALLERY AND ELSEWHERE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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