SCIENCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After reviewing the charity's forecasts and projections, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”

Significant events

• “A grant of 33,000,000 was made and paid in full for the Science Museum Group's Science Education and Communications projects.”
• “A grant of 3500,000 was made and paid in full for further feasibility and design work in support of the Science Museum Group's SIM Wonderlab project.”
• “A second payment (of 3698,371) was made in support of the Science Museum Group's Delivering Digital: Video Led Content Strategy project, the remaining funds from this 22-23 grant are expected to be disbursed in 2025-26.”
• “A grant of 34,000,000 was awarded for the Science Museum Group's Central Hall project at the National Railway Museum (NRM). The total grant is to be paid no later than 30 June 2026. At 31 March 2025, this grant remained unpaid and is shown as a future commitment on the balance sheet.”
• “The investment policy was revised and updated for approval by the Board of Trustees in November 2024.”
• “The remaining balance on a grant of 31,422,289 in support of the Science Museum Group's Delivering Digital: Video Led Content Strategy project was 3484,394 at 31 March 2025, to be paid no later than 31 December 2025.”
• “A grant of 34,000,000 in support of the Science Museum Group's Central Hall project was outstanding at 31 March 2025, to be paid no later than 30 June 2026.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -71.4%

  £4,163,094 → £1,192,660

• Net assets

  -4.8%

  £36,538,414 → £34,798,193

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers