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Registered charity · London

The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £10m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Greenwich, Lewisham
Website
www.horniman.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£9.5m
  • 2024£10m£9.1m
  • 2023£9.8m£9.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.9m£8.6m
  • 2021£7.2m£7.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 67%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ACQUIRING HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND DOCUMENTING, CONSERVING RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE PARTICULARLY THOSE RELATING TO THE STUDY OF ETHNOGRAPHY, NATURAL HISTORY AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND BY ESTABLISHING ACQUIRING MANAGING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS GALLERIES LIBRARIES AND OTHER SUITABLE PREMISES FOR USE FOR SUCH PURPOSES. (2) THE ACQUISITION, PROVISIONS, ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS FOR THE USE AND RECREATION OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF AND THE CREATION OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO THEIR NATURAL FEATURES, ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

Grants received

19 grants · £23,965,068 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.

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

9
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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12

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

Arts and leisure 11Retail and trade 3Education 2

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£10.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

143 from 150 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
802725
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 DECEMBER 1989 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 5 MAY 1993 AND 9 DECEMBER 1996 as amended on 05 Jul 2018
Companies House
Company number 02456393 · Active
Contact on the register
02086991872 · enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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