The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

NEW Contemporaries (1988) Limited

Registered charity 1013848 Registered since 1992

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 6Arts and leisure 3Retail and trade 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£366k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.newcontemporaries.org.uk
Emailinfo@newcontemporaries.org.uk
Phone02070331990
AddressFirst Floor, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, LONDON

Finances

£365,521 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£373,780£297,021
2022£398,802£448,416
2023£343,037£385,706
2024£358,823£353,504
2025£365,521£340,772

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The Association is established:- (1) to promote high standards of contemporary art including but without limitation by:providing professional opportunities to artists that are in or have recently left education, and who have been judged by the Association the most promising contemporary new artists. These professional opportunities might include but not be limited to opportunities to be exhibited and access to studio residencies; and (2) to advance and educate the aesthetic taste of the public in relation to contemporary art in particular by promoting public education and discourse about contemporary art and artists engaged in the creation of contemporary art.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 NOVEMBER 1988, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 25 JUNE 1992 AND 4 FEBRUARY 2009. as amended on 14 Dec 2021 as amended on 15 Dec 2021

Trustees (6)

6trustees
37median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

NEW Contemporaries (1988) Limited · 02323106 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 30/11/1988

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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