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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 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

  • 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

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£3.5m 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.4 in 2021

82 from 77 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
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
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