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Registered charity (CIO) · Bristol

Arnolfini Gallery CIO

Arnolfini Gallery CIO is a registered charity (number 311504) based in Bristol, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Professor Paul James Gough since 2026. Latest income £1.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Arnolfini (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Prince William Ayetey Taylor.

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
Bristol City
Website
www.arnolfini.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.3m£842k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 45%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL BY ENCOURAGING THE PRACTICE AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN GENERAL BUT WITH PARTICULAR REGARDS TO PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PRINT MAKING AND OTHER LIKE PURSUITS.?

Grants received

7 grants · £322,449 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £5,0002024-10-17
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002024-01-12
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £163,1492020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £57,3002017-06-14
  • Quartet Community Foundation £2,0002017-05-25
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.

11 trustees on the board

1.4y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • Prince William Ayetey Taylor since 2020
6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Animals 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 3Arts and leisure 2Hospitality 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£1.6m 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.7 in 2021

47 from 62 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.
46%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
311504
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 20 OCT 2020 as amended on 27 Nov 2020
Contact on the register
01179172300 · info@arnolfini.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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