Registered charity · Whitechapel
Whitechapel Gallery
- 1 trustee
- Income £3.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
No individual trustees are listed on the register.
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Whitechapel Gallery Trustee Limited.
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 London
- Website
- www.whitechapelgallery.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Whitechapel Gallery Trustee Limited
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.5m£4.5m
- 2024£4.4m£5.0m
- 2023£4.1m£5.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.5m£4.7m
- 2021£5.1m£3.9m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1. THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ART GALLERY FOR EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF: (A) MODERN AND HISTORICAL FINE ART (B) MODERN AND HISTORICAL DESIGN AND APPLIED ART (C) WORK DOME BY SCHOOL CHILDREN OR STUDENTS OR BY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE ART GALLERY. 2. PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS BOTH IN THE ART GALLERY AND ELSEWHERE.
Grants received
29 grants · £13,445,117 total360Giving 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £5,378,947 (7 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,447,900 (5 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £2,875,910 (2 grants)
- The Headley Trust · £350,000
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £155,000 (3 grants)
Most recent
Board analysis
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 312162
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 10 NOVEMBER 1981, AS AMENDED BY SCHEMES DATED 10 MAY 1988, AND 9 MARCH 2001.AS AMENDED ON 07 JUL 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 04093862 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02075227888 · directorsassistant@whitechapelgallery.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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