The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

National ART Collections Fund

Registered charity 209174 Registered since 1962

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, 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.

14 trustees on the board

4.1y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

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 14Education/training 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.

Arts and leisure 15Education 4Retail and trade 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£17.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.3 in 2020

80 from 69 in 2020
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

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.artfund.org
Emailinfo@artfund.org
Phone02072254800
Address2 Granary Square, King's Cross, LONDON, N1C 4BH

Finances

£17,681,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£14,470,000£18,067,000
2021£17,640,000£16,579,000
2022£13,948,000£20,873,000
2023£16,336,000£19,402,000
2024£17,681,000£17,935,000

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

TO SECURE BY PURCHASE, GIFT, EXCHANGE, BEQUEST OR OTHERWISE WORKS OF ART, AND OBJECTS OF NATIONAL AND HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE FOR PRESENTATION OR LOAN TO PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS IN OUR UNITED KINGDOM AND THE COMMONWEALTH AND TO THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST OR NATURAL BEAUTY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND FOR PUBLIC EXHIBITION SUCH PRESENTATION OR LOAN TO BE MADE SUBJECT TO SUCH CONDITIONS AND TERMS AS ARE REQUIRED.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER AND BYE-LAWS, DECEMBER 1928 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 8TH FEBRUARY 1977. And Royal Charter granted on 22 May 2024as amended by an Order in Council on 22 May 2024

Trustees (14)

14trustees
60median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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