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Registered charity · London

The Ruddock Foundation for the Arts

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.5m£777k
  • 2023£1.5m£422k
Earlier years
  • 2022£584k£4.3m
  • 2021£1.6m£644k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND EDUCATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY ALLBRANCHES OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THEPERFORMING, LITERARY AND DECORATIVE ARTS.(B) TO ADVANCE THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PICTURES,HISTORIC RECORDS, BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, MUNIMENTS, ARMOUR, PORCELAIN, SILVERAND GOLD OBJETS D'ART AND OTHER CHATTELS OR ITEMS OF ARTISTIC, HISTORIC ORNATIONAL INTEREST.(C) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM AND/OR ART GALLERY FOR THE DISPLAY ANDPROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THEDECORATIVE AND MEDIEVAL ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.(D) NOTWITHSTANDING THE ABOVE, TO SUPPORT OR CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER OBJECTS ORPURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OFENGLAND AND WALES.

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.

8.3y median 11y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 4General Charitable Purposes 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Education/training 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 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£2.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

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

1
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
1134994
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 12 JANUARY 2010
Contact on the register
02073139350 · lottie@ruddockfamily.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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