The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

The Contemporary ART Society

Registered charity 208178 Registered since 1962

Operates: Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

20 trustees on the board

5.7y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (6)

17
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 20Arts/culture/heritage/science 19General Charitable Purposes 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Recreation 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 24Property 10Finance 8

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£2.1m 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.8 in 2021

17 from 16 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.contemporaryartsociety.org
Emailinfo@contemporaryartsociety.org
Phone02070178400
AddressCONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY, 59 CENTRAL STREET, LONDON, EC1V 3AF

Finances

£2,109,196 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,561,199£1,484,697
2022£1,539,089£1,386,473
2023£1,764,456£1,692,940
2024£1,490,339£1,535,731
2025£2,109,196£1,901,564

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource BodyOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

OBJECTS ARE, FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE EDUCATION IN, AND THE APPRECIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND TO SECURE BY PURCHASE, GIFT, EXCHANGE, BEQUEST OR OTHERWISE CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART FOR PRESENTATION OR LOAN TO PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES WHEREVER SITUATED

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED 7 APRIL 1931 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 JUNE 1962,1 JULY 1981, 7 SEPTEMBER 1994 AND 24 NOVEMBER 2008

Trustees (20)

20trustees
56median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Contemporary ART Society(the) · 00255486 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 07/04/1931

5 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (7)

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