Registered charity · London
Chisenhale Gallery
- 11 trustees
- Income £999k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- May CalilChair · since 2022
- Alexandra HessTrustee · since 2023
- Alfred Lovell SpencerTrustee · since 2024
- Angelina VolkTrustee · since 2024
- Katherine SchaeferTrustee · since 2024
- Lydia OurahmaneTrustee · since 2024
- Melodie LeungTrustee · since 2024
- Sasha MorganTrustee · since 2021
- Shezad DawoodTrustee · since 2022
- Shyam AwasthiTrustee · since 2024
- Thomas FrancisTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.chisenhale.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Chisenhale Gallery
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£999k£1.1m
- 2024£1.3m£1.1m
- 2023£972k£959k
Earlier years
- 2022£935k£745k
- 2021£545k£513k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR BY:- (1) ESTABLISHING, PROMOTING AND MANAGING GALLERIES, INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS AND PLACES WHERE WORKS OF ART (AND ESPECIALLY INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY ART RELEVANT TO CULTURAL CONCERNS AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC) MAY BE EXHIBITED AND MADE THE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH, CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION (2) UNDERTAKING SUCH EXHIBITION, RESEARCH, CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION ACQUIRING AND EXPLOITING THE MEANS TO DO SO AND ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO DO SO (3) UNDERTAKING ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITY WHICH WILL ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS.
Grants received
4 grants · £223,421 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £168,421
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £25,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
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.
11 trustees on the board
- May Calil Chair since 2022
- Alexandra Hess since 2023
- Alfred Lovell Spencer since 2024
- Angelina Volk since 2024
- Katherine Schaefer since 2024
- Lydia Ourahmane since 2024
- Melodie Leung since 2024
- Sasha Morgan since 2021
- Shezad Dawood since 2022
- Shyam Awasthi since 2024
- Thomas Francis since 2024
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- May Calil Chair since 2022
- Alexandra Hess since 2023
- Alfred Lovell Spencer since 2024
- Angelina Volk since 2024
- Katherine Schaefer since 2024
- Lydia Ourahmane since 2024
- Melodie Leung since 2024
- Sasha Morgan since 2021
- Shezad Dawood since 2022
- Shyam Awasthi since 2024
- Thomas Francis since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1026175
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/08/2013
- Companies House
- Company number 02851794 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 8981 4518 · mail@chisenhale.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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