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The Geffrye is a museum of English domestic furniture and interiors. It has fine collections, beautiful buildings and gardens and a reputation for a high quality education service. It is known as one of London's most friendly and enjoyable museums.
The Geffrye Museum became a fully independent charitable company, limited by guarantee, in April 1991. The Trust is supported financially by grant-aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, supplemented by earned income, donations and sponsorship.
The principal charitable purposes of the Trust are the advancement of education and other purposes beneficial to the community including the care of its collections, Grade 1 listed buildings and gardens.
Toward this end, the Geffrye Museum's mission is:
to encourage people to learn from and enjoy the museum’s collections, buildings and gardens and to promote the study of English domestic interiors.
The primary objectives of the Geffrye Museum are:
This publication scheme sets out the information which the Geffrye Museum plans to publish, how and when the information will be published and whether or not there will be a charge for such information.
The aim in publishing this material is to make public details of the governance of the museum, its plans and objectives and its performance in meeting them.
The publication of the scheme is operated by The Geffrye Museum Trust Limited.
The Head of Finance and Administration holds responsibility for the scheme on behalf of the museum.
The Head of Finance and Administration takes responsibility for maintaining the scheme on a day-to-day basis.
The corporate plan contains information about our plans for the future, our past performance, our objectives and targets and our business plan to achieve these targets.
Corporate Plan 2009-10 to 2011-12
Printed copies are available by post from the museum. A charge of £3.00 will be made to cover the cost of copying and postage.
This document contains a review of the past year, the financial statements and auditor’s report.
Final Accounts 2006
This agreement between the museum and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport sets out the Government’s core strategic objectives and shows how the museum’s own objectives will contribute to their achievement.
This document also identifies further key objectives to which the museum may be working, lays out targets against which achievement is to be measured and the level of government funding to be made available to the museum.
Funding Agreement with DCMS.pdf 133K
The following policy document relating to key operational areas of the museum will be available free of charge on our website soon:
The employee handbook details the conditions of employment for staff and encompasses key policies including Health and Safety at work and Equal Opportunities.
This will be made available free of charge on our website soon.
Printed copies are available by post from the museum. A charge of £5.00 will be made to cover the cost of copying and postage.
We own the copyright in our information. Permission should be sought from The Geffrye Museum before material is re-used or reproduced as we reserve the right to make a charge in certain circumstances.
We aim to make all documents available on our website or by post within one month of their formal adoption or of coming into effect.
All documents are to be available free of charge on our website soon. In the meantime to request a printed copy of a document, please contact us by email.
info@geffrye-museum.org.uk
Or by application to:
Payment of the appropriate fee should be enclosed with an application, cheques made payable to The Geffrye Museum Trust
The Geffrye Museum is a registered charity, number 803052, and a company limited by guarantee, number 2476642. Our Trustees are:
Richard Hunting (Chairman) Frank Smith (Deputy Chairman) Christopher Claxton Stevens Penny Egan Philippa Glanville Tanvir Hasan Robert Marshall-Andrews, QC MP Philip Robinson John Tomlins Marina Vaizey
