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Registered charity · London

The Barbican Centre Trust Limited

To support, promote and encourage people in London, the United Kingdom and globally to discover and appreciate the arts through:(i) artistic, cultural and educational activities generally;(ii) artistic, cultural and educational...

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.barbican.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Barbican Centre Trust Limited
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

To support, promote and encourage people in London, the United Kingdom and globally to discover and appreciate the arts through:(i) artistic, cultural and educational activities generally;(ii) artistic, cultural and educational programmes and activities run by the Barbican Centre; and (iii) the maintenance and development of the Barbican Centre as a centre of the arts, culture and education, in each case to the extent that such support, promotion and encouragement is of a charitable nature.

Grants received

15 grants · £2,510,150 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.

5 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
21.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
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 5Education/training 5

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 17Education 6Business services 5

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.7m 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.

8.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.2 in 2021

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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
294282
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 NOVEMBER 1985 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30 SEPTEMBER 2009 as amended on 07 Dec 2023 as amended on 07 Dec 2023
Companies House
Company number 01962950 · Active
Contact on the register
02078702500 · development@barbican.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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