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The Wiener Library Endowment Trust

Registered charity 290660 Registered since 1984

Operates: Throughout London

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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.

6 trustees on the board

6.7y median 2.5y
average tenure
18y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

1
company-linked trustees

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 2Business services 1Education 1

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  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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£806k 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

0
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.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.wienerlibrary.co.uk
Emailinfo@wienerlibrary.co.uk
Phone02076367247
AddressThe Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DP

Finances

£806,024 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£217,484£217,484
2021£37,874£215,252
2022£32,998£218,534
2023£137,984£239,710
2024£806,024£263,341

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

1) TO SUPPORT AND MAINTAIN THE WIGNER LIBRARY. 2) WHETHER IN ASSOCIATON WITH THE SAID LIBRARY OR OTHERWISE TO ADVANCE OR ASSIT IN ADVANCMENTOF CONTMPORARY HISTORY WITH SPECIAL REFERNECE TO THE EREOF TOTALITABIANISM AND THE HOLOCAUST OF EUROPEAN JEURY.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 12/11/1984AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 16/01/2014

Trustees (6)

6trustees
61median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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