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Registered charity · London

The Photographers' Gallery LTD

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.3m (2025)

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, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Photographers' Gallery Limited
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.3m£4.6m
  • 2024£4.3m£4.5m
  • 2023£4.3m£4.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.5m£3.5m
  • 2021£3.7m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:- FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART-FORM AND TO FURTHER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, APPRECIATION, UNDERSTANDING AND USES OF IT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: * PROGRAMMING EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS THAT EXPLORE THE HISTORY, PRACTICE AND EVOLUTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM AND ITS VALUE TO SOCIETY; * IDENTIFYING AND EXHIBITING THE WORK OF NEW AND ESTABLISHED PHOTOGRAPHERS AND NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY THAT RESPONDS TO THE EVOLVING NATURE OF THE MEDIUM; * ORGANISING TALKS AND EVENTS, COURSES AND WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE, KNOWLEDGE, EXCHANGE AND APPRECIATION; * PRESERVING THE CHARITY'S ASSETS INCLUDING ITS ARCHIVAL MATERIALS AND MAKING THEM PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE.

Grants received

12 grants · £1,152,176 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

Most recent

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

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

7
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 10General Charitable Purposes 10

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 11Professional services 1Retail and trade 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.3m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.5 in 2021

53 from 39 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
262548
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/08/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 00986208 · Active
Contact on the register
02070879318 · Kadiatu.songu@tpg.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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