Registered charity · London
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ART
- 9 trustees
- Income £8.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alexander Robert NairneTrustee · since 2026
- Dr Martina DrothTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Susan GibbonsTrustee · since 2019
- Edward Cooke JrTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Pericles Samuel Bruce LewisTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Steven Ian WilkinsonTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Timothy John BarringerTrustee · since 2024
- Russell Andrew Martin EpsteinTrustee · since 2024
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- Sarah Georgia KempTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 2 other charities:
- Yale University Press London · 1 shared trustee
- Bury ST Edmunds Theatre Management Limited · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Austria, Belgium and more
- Website
- www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ART(the)
- Registered
- 1970
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£8.3m£6.9m
- 2024£7.4m£6.4m
- 2023£7.2m£6.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£5.8m£5.5m
- 2021£5.6m£4.8m
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF BRITISH ART.
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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.
9 trustees on the board
- Alexander Robert Nairne since 2026
- Dr Martina Droth since 2025
- Dr Susan Gibbons since 2019
- Edward Cooke Jr since 2024
- Professor Pericles Samuel Bruce Lewis since 2024
- Professor Steven Ian Wilkinson since 2024
- Professor Timothy John Barringer since 2024
- Russell Andrew Martin Epstein since 2024
- Sarah Georgia Kemp since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Susan Gibbons since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Alexander Robert Nairne since 2026
- Dr Martina Droth since 2025
- Dr Susan Gibbons since 2019
- Edward Cooke Jr since 2024
- Professor Pericles Samuel Bruce Lewis since 2024
- Professor Steven Ian Wilkinson since 2024
- Professor Timothy John Barringer since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Russell Andrew Martin Epstein since 2024
- Sarah Georgia Kemp since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
23.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 21.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 313838
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 JUN 1970AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 18 OCT 1982 as amended on 22 May 2024
- Companies House
- Company number 00983028 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02075800311 · info@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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