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Registered charity · London

The Foundling Museum

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Foundling Museum
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.3m
  • 2024£6.5m£2.4m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.9m
  • 2021£2.2m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(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.

Grants received

20 grants · £3,533,650 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £319,0002025-02-06
  • John Lyon's Charity £4,5002024-01-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £244,2502023-03-24
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £300,0002023-02-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £150,0002022-10-13
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

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 16Business services 2Finance 1

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£2.0m 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.

6.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2021

35 from 19 in 2021
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
1071167
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/06/2014 as amended on 21 Oct 2023
Companies House
Company number 03621861 · Active
Contact on the register
02078413600 · finance@foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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