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Registered charity · West Sussex

The Public Catalogue Foundation

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.artuk.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Public Catalogue Foundation
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2021£2.0m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 TO RESEARCH, PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION IN RELATION TO, AND TO PROMOTE, PUBLISH AND PROVIDE CATALOGUES OF PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND OTHER WORKS OF ART, INCLUDING ASSOCIATING WITH MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND ORGANISATIONS AFFILIATED WITH ART, IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE ARTS AND EDUCATION GENERALLY; 2 TO ENCOURAGE, ASSIST, ARRANGE AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE RESTORATION OF PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS OF ART HELD OR OWNED BY MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS MAKING WORKS OF ART AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND TO COOPERATE WITH, ASSIST AND SUPPORT SUCH MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER BODIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE SAME; 3 TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE WORKS OF ART AND THE ARTS IN GENERAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN AND TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF, AND PUBLIC INTEREST IN, THE ARTS GENERALLY; 4 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION CHARITABLE MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS MAKING WORKS OF ART AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES IN THE ARTS SECTOR; AND 5 TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER TO BE ANCILLARY OR COMPLIMENTARY TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS OR WHICH MAY BE UNDERTAKEN IN CONNECTION OR CONJUNCTION THEREWITH

Grants received

13 grants · £4,423,086 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 National Lottery Heritage Fund £295,6602025-09-10
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £4,7502024-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £229,8932024-01-24
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £8,0002024-01-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002023-09-28
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.

15 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (3)

12
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 15Education/training 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Business services 13Arts and leisure 6Professional services 6

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£2.2m 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.

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

41 from 35 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
1096185
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 OCT 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 DEC 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 JUL 2017
Companies House
Company number 04573564 · Active
Contact on the register
07517708208 · info@artuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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