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Registered charity · London

The Bishopsgate Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.bishopsgate.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Bishopsgate Foundation
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£3.1m
  • 2024£1.6m£3.4m
  • 2023£1.6m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£3.3m
  • 2021£2.6m£3.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1. THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN INSTITUTE IN, OR NEAR THE CITY OF LONDON, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF :- A LIBRARY COMPRISED OF BOOKS, JOURNALS AND OTHER MATERIALS (WHETHER ELECTRONIC OR OTHERWISE) FOR THE USE OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO BE MANAGED UNDER REGULATIONS MADE FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE TRUSTEES; AND PUBLIC FACILITIES TO BE MANAGED UNDER REGULATIONS MADE FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE TRUSTEES INCLUDING THE POWER TO CHARGE FEES FOR THEIR USE.2. THE RELIEF BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS OF PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WORKING OR HAVE RESIDED OR WORKED IN THE AREA OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES OF ST BOTOLPH'S WITHOUT BISHOPSGATE, CHRISTCHURCH SPITALFIELDS AND ST LEONARD'S SHOREDITCH AS DEFINED FROM TIME TO TIME ("THE OBJECTS").

Grants received

7 grants · £2,699,200 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

  • The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art £30,0002024-11-20
  • The National Archives £3,0002024-11-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £942,1002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £81,0002020-08-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £50,0002009-03-18
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

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Religious Activities 1

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

Education 11Arts and leisure 7Hospitality 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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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£1.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

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

26 from 48 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
1090923
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/01/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/03/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/08/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/03/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/01/2008AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 19/01/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/06/2011
Companies House
Company number 04362659 · Active
Contact on the register
02073929251 · enquiries@bishopsgate.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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