THE HORNIMAN PUBLIC MUSEUM AND PUBLIC PARK TRUST

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Provision of a public, educational Museum and Gardens
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income:
£2,455,000
Donations and legacies | £1.53m | |
Charitable activities | £0 | |
Other trading activities | £807.00k | |
Investments | £118.00k | |
Other | £0 |
Total expenditure:
£9,114,000
Raising funds | £1.17m | |
Charitable activities | £7.94m | |
Other | £0 |
£0 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £1,500,000 from 50 government contract(s) and £5,983,000 from 2 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
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Raising funds and other expenditure | £1.17m | |
Charitable expenditure | £7.94m |
People

130 Employee(s)
12 Trustee(s)
210 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Other Charitable Activities
- Greenwich
- Lewisham
Governance
- 12 June 1997: Standard registration
- HORNIMAN MUSEUM AND GARDENS (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
12 Trustee(s)
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Michael Salter-Church MBE | Chair | 14 August 2022 |
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Edmund Philip Neuberger | Trustee | 24 April 2025 |
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Naila Yousuf | Trustee | 24 April 2025 |
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Patrick Toshio Barker | Trustee | 24 April 2025 |
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Rodney Phillip Taylor | Trustee | 06 February 2025 |
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DIANA MAINE | Trustee | 08 February 2024 |
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Nicholas Wyver | Trustee | 08 February 2024 |
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Somi Umolu | Trustee | 08 February 2024 |
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Eva Appelbaum | Trustee | 14 October 2021 |
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Roma Angela Nelson Dibua | Trustee | 14 October 2021 |
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Mayowa Ochere | Trustee | 10 October 2019 |
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Simon Hesketh | Trustee | 19 October 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £7.48m | £7.19m | £7.87m | £9.75m | £10.13m | |
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Total expenditure | £7.77m | £7.63m | £8.62m | £9.58m | £9.11m | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | £1.50m | |
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Income from government grants | £4.89m | £6.11m | £6.19m | £7.18m | £5.98m | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £5.50m | £6.50m | £6.56m | £7.69m | £1.53m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £643.74k | £194.12k | £502.98k | £708.95k | £807.00k | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £1.31m | £488.82k | £796.31k | £1.33m | £0 | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £18.15k | £12.22k | £7.27k | £16.81k | £118.00k | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £30.00k | £173.22k | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £6.87m | £6.88m | £7.79m | £8.59m | £7.94m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £901.00k | £748.40k | £824.00k | £992.73k | £1.17m | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £60.14k | £71.55k | £77.00k | £88.86k | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
Asset / Liability | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £44.79m | £44.77m | £46.14m | £49.00m | £50.57m | |
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Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Other assets | £3.01m | £3.68m | £3.99m | £7.07m | £5.92m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | -£7.37m | -£11.93m | -£9.57m | -£277.00k | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £572.72k | £1.12m | £1.10m | £3.80m | £2.06m |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 18 December 2024 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 18 December 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 23 November 2023 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 23 November 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 30 November 2022 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 30 November 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 08 November 2021 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 08 November 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 03 December 2020 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 03 December 2020 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's 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
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
Area of benefit
NOT DEFINED
Linked charities
- 12 June 1997 : Standard registration
Contact information
- Address:
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100 LONDON ROAD
LONDON
SE23 3PQ
- Phone:
- 02086991872
- Email:
- enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
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