Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

THE SHOWROOM GALLERY LTD.

The Charity is established to advance public education by the provision of an art gallery for the exhibition of contemporary art, including performance, video, installation, and artist commissions involving local participation. It is also involved in the formulation, preparation and establishment of schemes, provided that all the objectives of the charity shall be of a charitable nature.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

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

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£293£373£-79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£380£317£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£343£276£67n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£334£383£-49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£388£425£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£401£374£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£360£335£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£383£464£-81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£283£317£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£492£316£176n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£386£380£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£255£225£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£301£204£97n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£140£108£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£145£134£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£157£164£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£175£115£60n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£118£123£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£109£103£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

www.theshowroom.org

info@theshowroom.org

02077244300

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Art galleries and exhibitions
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster,
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£271,861
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£217,000
Westminster Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£7,880
City Bridge Trust£3,600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Showroom Gallery Ltd
£3,600 10/06/2024
£3,600 (9 days) to provide an eco audit.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Support for programme delivery
£217,000 14/03/2024
36
The Showroom is a contemporary art space focused on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond. This grant will enable The Showroom to recruit a full time Community Engagement Curator, to commission local artists ....more
Westminster Foundation - Discretionary grant - The Showroom - 01/04/2023
£10,000 04/01/2023
1
The Showroom - GPUK
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Showroom Gallery Ltd
£7,880 09/09/2022
Site A - Gyonamdong - Facing Church Street - Blackwater
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£70,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
£130,247 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 - The Showroom Recovery
£71,614 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Showroom
£30,000 08/11/2011
Towards a programme of artists' projects exploring forms of participation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-65
  • ANDREW RENTON Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Lecturer
  • ALAN ROBERT HIGGS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Architect
  • ALIA AL-SENUSSI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Advisor And Academic
  • ANDREW MARK HOWSON BELL Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Commissioning Editor, Arts, Bbc
  • EDWARD THOMAS ERNEST FRANCIS Appointed: 2023
  • MERCEDES VILARDELL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Lawyer
  • OLIVER ANDREW EVANS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Director, Art Gallery
  • SOPHIE LACHOWSKY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Museum Explainer
  • ZAIN MAHMOOD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Finance Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/05/1996, number: 1055262
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/05/1996, number: 03194071
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 5 days late, AR16: 9 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR09: 366 days late,
Main office

THE SHOWROOM
63 PENFOLD STREET
LONDON
NW8 8PQ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ART GALLERY FOR EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF MODERN ART, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, INSTALLATION, AND THE FORMULATION, PREPARATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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