The Museum of the Home
The Geffrye Museum Trust, Museum of the Home
- Country
- England & Wales
- Charity number
- 803052
- Status
- Registered
- Reporting
- Up to date Last filed Jan. 16, 2026. Filing history
- Registered
- March 13, 1990
- Legal form
- Charitable company
- Company number
- 02476642
Address
- Address
- 136 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8EA
Contact
- Phone
- 020 7739 9893
- press@museumofthehome.org.uk
- Website
museumofthehome.org.uk
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 | Filed | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | Jan. 16, 2026On time | £3,317,178 | £3,363,935 | £31,886,738 | 64 |
| March 31, 2024 | Jan. 16, 2025On time | £3,282,194 | £3,069,001 | £32,928,495 | 71 |
| March 31, 2023 | Jan. 17, 2024On time | £3,841,426 | £3,762,520 | £33,067,302 | 71 |
| March 31, 2022 | Jan. 11, 2023On time | £3,880,334 | £3,415,585 | £29,218,396 | 67 |
| March 31, 2021 | Jan. 20, 2022On time | £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 |