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Registered charity · London

Friends of the Goethe-Institut London

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £69k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Alison Frances Astley, Briony Grogan.

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
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Linked company
Friends of the Goethe-Institut London
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£69k£55k
  • 2024£20k£780
  • 2023£20k£748
Earlier years
  • 2022£20k£43k
  • 2021£20k£691

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 0%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF GERMAN LANGUAGE, ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE AND GENERAL INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL COOPERATION, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF PROGRAMMES, EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES RELATED THERETO;B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE LANGUAGE, ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE OF GERMANY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM; ANDC) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.THIS PROVISION MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

Grants received

7 grants · £759,000 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £460,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £299,000 (5 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £455,0002024-05-23
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £5,0002024-01-18
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £200,0002023-03-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £12,0002022-12-19
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £25,0002022-03-14
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.

4 trustees on the board

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (2)

4
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 3Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 4Other services 2Property 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£20k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1180177
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03 JAN 2017
Companies House
Company number 10545257 · Active
Contact on the register
02075964000 · friends-london@goethe.de
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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