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Registered charity · London

The Serpentine Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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
Website
www.serpentinegalleries.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Serpentine Trust
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£16m
  • 2024£14m£15m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£6.0m£6.8m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL FORMS OF ART AND MUSIC.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6.6y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance
10
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 14

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

Education 13Arts and leisure 4Other services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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£14.8m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.8 in 2021

101 from 65 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
298809
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/07/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/08/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/2015
Companies House
Company number 02150221 · Active
Contact on the register
0207402 6075 · information@serpentinegalleries.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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