MIGRATION MUSEUM PROJECT

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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

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have considered the charity's ability to continue as a going concern and have concluded that there are sufficient resources to meet its financial obligations for the foreseeable future.”

Significant events

• “Our Front of House team won the Best Visitor Welcome award at the 2025 Museums and Heritage Awards.”
• “Our final exhibition in Lewisham, All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain, brought together highlights from the Migration Museum's work over the past decade.”
• “We also delivered our first community-curated exhibition Inside/Outside And All In Between.”
• “We were delighted to confirm the Portal Trust as our inaugural donor, with a significant gift of £0.5 million towards our award-winning learning programme.”
• “We received a significant new grant from the City Bridge Foundation for community engagement work.”
• “We were supported by the Eastern Cluster Business Improvement District to deliver our Annual Lecture at the historic Merchant Taylors Hall.”
• “We were warmly hosted for a fundraising dinner at the Old Bailey by the Sheriff of London.”
• “We celebrated further fundraising success in the form of a funding award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support the development of our collections, curatorial and interpretation strategy.”
• “And we received three-year support from the John Ellerman Foundation for our knowledge-sharing, sector-supporting Migration Network.”
• “Sadly Sophie Henderson, one of the founders of the Migration Museum and its Chief Executive since inception had to stand down in June 2025 for health reasons.”
• “In February 2023, the Corporation of London's Planning and Transportation Committee approved planning consent for a new block of student accommodation... with the Migration Museum as the proposed cultural operator.”
• “The scheme subsequently won the award for Planning Permission of the Year at the Planning Awards 2024.”
• “Dominus for their generous support package, consisting of delivery of a brand-new building, built to the Museum's specifications... a rent and service charge free term of 60 years, underwriting of the Museum's operating costs... and a donation of £500,000 to kick start the capital campaign.”
• “Our first touring exhibition 'Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS' completed its final leg in Lewisham in July 2024 and won the prestigious Museums and Heritage Awards Temporary or Touring exhibition of the Year award for 2024.”
• “Our Learning Team received national recognition this year, winning the Education and Training category at the prestigious Charity Awards.”
• “Our followers on Instagram grew 18%... we doubled our follower count on LinkedIn... our newly launched Bluesky account gained 5,000 followers. Our Tik Tok content reached 38,000 people.”
• “Our England without immigration social media and out-of-home advertising campaign ... went viral, reaching more than 14m people organically on social media.”
• “The campaign was long-listed in the Digital Marketing category for the Art Council England's Digital Culture Awards.”
• “Our Migrant Makers' Market concept shop ... drove most of our earned income, which increased 29% overall.”
• “We were pleased to welcome Angela Cluff, a fundraising consultant specialising in Major Donors.”
• “During this year Kuljit Jackson and Ayesha Hameed resigned as trustees.”

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

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +24.1%

  £1,481,430 → £1,838,888

• Cash

  +6.5%

  £516,966 → £550,483

• Net assets

  +41.3%

  £578,990 → £818,160

• Employees

  +11.8%

  17 → 19

• Profit before tax

  -35.6%

  £371,574 → £239,170

• Wages

  +21.2%

  £520,710 → £631,002

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