The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Gilbert Trust for the Arts

Registered charity 1055853 Registered since 1996

Operates: Kensington And Chelsea

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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.

6.1y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
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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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.

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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.vam.ac.uk
Emailgilbertcollection@vam.ac.uk
Phone02079422771
AddressVICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW7 2RL

Finances

£1,141,912 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£516£361,525
2022£929£920,851
2023£42£309,661
2024£213,284£497,409
2025£1,141,912£662,402

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

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

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

Trustees (9)

9trustees
52median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Gilbert Trust for the Arts · 03127226 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 17/11/1995

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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