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Institute of Contemporary Arts Limited

Institute of Contemporary Arts Limited is a registered charity (number 236848) based in London, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Professor Dame Henrietta Louise Moore DBE since 2025. Latest income £4.1m (2026). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as ICA (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (2026)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.ica.art (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Institute of Contemporary Arts Limited
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£4.1m£4.2m
  • 2025£4.1m£4.3m
  • 2024£3.7m£4.5m
Earlier years
  • 2023£5.0m£4.4m
  • 2022£4.4m£4.0m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY BY ENCOURAGING THE UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTS GENERALLY AND PARTICULARLY OF CONTEMPORARY ART AS EXPRESSED IN PAINTING, ETCHING, ENGRAVING, DRAWING, POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, DRAMA, MUSIC, OPERA, BALLET, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGNS, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMS, RADIO AND TELEVISION OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL VALUE;(2) THE PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE PROPERTY, 12 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON; AND(3) THE COMPILATION, PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF AN ARCHIVE OF CONTEMPORARY FILM, PHOTOGRAPHS OR OTHER MATERIAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL VALUE.

Grants received

3 grants · £15,000 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.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10Education/training 10The 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 13Construction 1Education 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£4.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.3 in 2021

71 from 77 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
236848
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 OCTOBER 1947 AS AMENDED 13 AUGUST 1968, 12 MAY 2003 AND 18 APRIL 2006 as amended on 05 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 00444351 · Active
Contact on the register
02079300493 · info@ica.art
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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