Corporate Information
The Geffrye Museum Trust Limited Freedom of Information - Publication Scheme
The Geffrye Museum
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:
- to acquire, preserve, research and manage collections and information relating to the history of English domestic interiors;
- preserve, manage and develop the buildings and gardens for the purposes of the museum and its public;
- to provide access to the museum’s collections and resources for study, education and enjoyment;
- to provide services and facilities for the benefit and enjoyment of visitors;
- to secure and manage financial and human resources for the museum’s operation and development;
- to market the museum and increase public awareness and use of its resources, services and facilities.
Purpose of this Publication Scheme
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.
Classes of Information Intended to be Published
Corporate Plan
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 2012-13 to 2014-15
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.
Annual Report and Audited Accounts
This document contains a review of the past year, the financial statements and auditor’s report.
Final Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011.
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.
Funding Agreement with DCMS
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 2011 - 2014
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.
Policy Documents
The following policy document relating to key operational areas of the museum will be available free of charge on our website soon:
- Collections Management Policy
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.
UK Public Data Project
In accordance with the Government’s commitment to greater transparency of public information, we are providing below details of our staff structure:
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Organogram |
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Senior staff data |
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Junior staff data |
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| Senior management remuneration |
Director's salary band |
Please note that the information is easier to interpret via the excel spreadsheets rather than the csv documents.
This information will be updated every six months. For any queries please contact the Communications Department: info@geffrye-museum.org.uk
Geffrye Museum Senior Staff and Salary data 31 October 2011
Geffrye Museum Junior Staff and Salary data 31 October 2011
Spending Transactions over £25,000 (.xls)
Geffrye Museum Transparency 2010 - 2011 (.csv)
External link to Geffrye Museum Transparency information
Employee Handbook
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.
Copyright
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.
Availability
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:
The Head of Finance and Administration
The Geffrye Museum
Kingsland Road
London
E2 8EA
Payment of the appropriate fee should be enclosed with an application, cheques made payable to The Geffrye Museum Trust
Trustees of the Geffrye Museum
The Geffrye Museum is a registered charity, number 803052, and a company limited by guarantee, number 2476642. Our Trustees are:
Penny Egan (Chairman)
Patricia Brown
Christopher Claxton Stevens
Jeremy Edge
Philippa Glanville
Tanvir Hasan
David Millar
Philip Robinson
John Tomlins
