OpenCharities

The Museum of the Home

The Geffrye Museum Trust, Museum of the Home

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
803052
Status
Registered
Registered
March 13, 1990
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
02476642

Address

Address
136 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8EA

Activities

The Museum of the Home explores the theme of home through galleries, rooms through time and gardens, special exhibitions, learning programmes and community engagement activities. Formerly known as the Geffyre Museum, it is housed in the 300-year old Geffrye Almshouse buildings in Hackney,and encourages people from London's diverse communities to learn about home - a theme common to everyone.

Objects: 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 the British domestic interior and its uses, by promoting debate about the role and importance of home in and for societies and by establishing, acquiring, managing and maintaining museums galleries libraries and other suitable premises for such purposes

Classification

How
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
What
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, The General Public/mankind

Geography

Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 £3,317,178 £3,363,935 £31,886,738 64
March 31, 2024 £3,282,194 £3,069,001 £32,928,495 71
March 31, 2023 £3,841,426 £3,762,520 £33,067,302 71
March 31, 2022 £3,880,334 £3,415,585 £29,218,396 67
March 31, 2021 £6,450,957 £2,357,765 £27,403,647 41

Trustees

Name Appointed
Alain Clapham Nov. 4, 2021
Alexander David Ely March 24, 2025
Arthur Guy Louis Jackson Kay Feb. 1, 2021
Caroline Ann Tuke Stoddart Nov. 4, 2021
Charles Mark Townshend Colville Nov. 4, 2021
Janet Chapman Jan. 30, 2020
Jonas James Breton July 14, 2023
Katherine Eleanor Mackenzie Hudson July 14, 2023
Kurt Christopher Mueller Sept. 24, 2025
Rajvi Kantaria July 1, 2025
Rania Nur Feb. 1, 2021
Rose Mary Hulse July 14, 2023
Sir Edward John Watson Gieve Sept. 24, 2025