Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

To operate a museum for the maintenance, conservation and exhibition of the Foundling Hospital collection.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£2,057£2,124£-66£212£12,410£2,46213.933130
31/03/22£1,746£1,882£-136£154£12,598£2,72817.433140
31/03/21£2,237£1,522£715£2£12,417£2,6622119140
31/03/20£1,369£1,543£-174£10£11,312£1,66112.919140
31/03/19£1,346£1,596£-250£23£11,624£2,03215.320215
31/03/18*£1,125£1,488£-363£20£11,606£2,11617.1190
31/03/17*£1,183£1,436£-254£32£11,969£2,64222.1190
31/03/16*£1,153£1,361£-208£24£11,876£2,60623180
31/03/15£1,455£1,292£163£36£12,237£2,98727.7160
31/03/14£875£1,058£-183£15£11,965£2,79331.7130
31/03/13*£770£992£-222£13£12,126£2,92935.4170
31/03/12£834£861£-27£26£3,176£2,96741.4170
31/03/11£887£908£-22£24£3,165£3,00939.7170
31/03/10£778£960£-182£30£3,110£2,96937.1200
31/03/09£688£917£-229£19£2,701£2,57133.6200
31/03/08£725£837£-112£27£3,705£3,56351.1180
31/03/07£584£705£-121£20£4,208£4,06169.1120
31/03/06£684£654£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,261£895£366n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£820£551£268n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 215%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 20%
Reserves/Spending: 13.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 26 years

www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk

enquiries@foundlingmuseum.org.uk

02078413600

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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 buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
The Foyle Foundation£500,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£493,250
DCMS£390,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£300,000
John Lyon's Charity£119,000
The Pilgrim Trust£90,000
Esmee Fairbairn£80,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to The Foundling Museum
£20,000 06/09/2023
TASK fund donation as a contribution to the lease appeal
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Foundling Museum
£244,250 24/03/2023
Securing the Foundling Museum: Building Resilience for a Long Term Future
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The Foundling Museum
£30,000 14/03/2023
1
The Foundling Museum: Securing the Future : To help the Museum acquire long-term custodianship of the building and the collection.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£300,000 20/02/2023
Securing the future of the Foundling Museum
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£500,000 29/11/2022
towards Securing the Future of the Building and Collection through the purchase of 999 lease
The Childhood Trust - Families at the Foundling
£7,500 12/06/2022
Supporting families & disadvantaged parents with young children is at the heart of the Foundling Museum?s mission. A new partnership with Home-Start seeks to help 24 families through challenging times, providing creative activities to improve ....more
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£15,000 21/12/2021
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Foundling Museum, The
£5,200 19/11/2021
Support for the transport of artwork by Japanese manga artist Taiyō Matsumoto to feature in the exhibition Superheroes, Orphans and Origins: 125 years in Comics, which will run at the Foundling Museum in London, 1 April to 10 July 2022.
John Lyon's Charity - Internship grant to Foundling Museum
£105,000 16/06/2021
Care Leaver Traineeship
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Foundling Museum
£4,000 01/10/2020
1
Black Cats and Sportswear Hacks: Spooky Half-term Activities
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Foundling Museum
£10,000 14/09/2020
4
COVID-19: LCR Wave 3 - Head of Learning salary
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Foundling Museum
£60,000 01/09/2020
12
Towards Core costs Towards unrestricted funding to underpin work with disadvantaged children and young people.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Foundling Museum
£249,000 26/08/2020
COVID19:FOUNDLING MUSEUM
DCMS - Culture Recovery: The Foundling Museum
£250,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Foundling Museum: Culture Recovery Fund 2
£125,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The Foundling Museum
£60,000 26/02/2020
36
The Foundling Museum: Securing the Future
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£35,000 20/09/2019
towards a package of investment to support the financial sustainability of the museum
DCMS - Acquisition of William South's Naval General Service Medal 1848
£11,300 09/04/2019
Acquisition of William South's Naval General Service Medal 1848
The Childhood Trust - Art on Children's Hospital Wards
£2,500 05/12/2017
We work with disadvantaged, critically ill children on London hospital wards to create unique art projects, giving them an opportunity to speak creatively about their conditions and treatments. Each project will culminate in a public display at the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Foundling Museum
£150,000 18/02/2015
36
Towards core salaries to consolidate the museum's model.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Foundling Museum
£59,900 09/10/2013
Foundlings at War
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Foundling Museum
£10,000 07/06/2013
Maximising Membership Scheme Income
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-76
  • ANDREW JAMES MCINTYRE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
  • CLAIRE JEFFERS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Investment Advisor
  • EDWARD STUART HUMPHREY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
  • GRAYSON PERRY CBE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Artist
  • LEMN SISSAY OBE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Author And Broadcaster
  • LORD SIMON RUSSELL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Crossbench Peer
  • MICHAEL DESMOND CROSSAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Solicitor
  • PERDITA HUNT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • RONALD GOULD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chairman
  • SHEREKA DUNBAR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Student
  • SUSAN LINDA HOYLE OBE (Chair) Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/1998, number: 1071167
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/08/1998, number: 03621861
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 6 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

40 BRUNSWICK SQUARE
LONDON
WC1N 1AZ

Objectives

(A) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND OF SCHOLARS BY THE DOCUMENTATION, MAINTENANCE, CONSERVATION, EXHIBITION, STUDY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE COLLECTION (AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUB-CLAUSE); (B) IN THIS MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION, THE COLLECTION MEANS THE WORKS OF ART AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS FROM TIME TO TIME COMPRISED IN THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO AND SUCH OTHER WORKS OF ART AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS AS ARE COMPRISED THEREIN AND AS MAY BE ADDED THERETO. (2) TO SUPPORT SUCH OF THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY CALLED THE HOSPITAL FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION OF EXPOSED AND DESERTED YOUNG CHILDREN NOW KNOWN AS THE THOMAS CORAM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (THE FOUNDATION) AS THE CHARITY IN CONSULTATION WITH THE FOUNDATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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