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Gilbert Trust for the Arts

Gilbert Trust for the Arts is a registered charity (number 1055853) based in London, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £1.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Kensington And Chelsea
Website
www.vam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gilbert Trust for the Arts
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£662k
  • 2024£213k£497k
  • 2023£42£310k
Earlier years
  • 2022£929£921k
  • 2021£516£362k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT ART AND ARTISTIC WORKS GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR ABOUT THE WORKS OF ART ACQUIRED BY THE COMPANY BY EXHIBITION AND INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS, BY PREPARATION OF CATALOGUES AND INVENTORIES, BY RESEARCH AND BY PUBLICATION AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS ARE APPROPRIATE

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.

6.1y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

5
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 9Education/training 2Environment/conservation/heritage 2

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

Arts and leisure 11Education 4Retail and trade 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.1m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

0
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1055853
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 NOVEMBER 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10 DECEMBER 2007 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 JULY 2009 as amended on 26 Sep 2018
Companies House
Company number 03127226 · Active
Contact on the register
02079422771 · gilbertcollection@vam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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