[holding answer 11 December 2008]: The Department provides funding to charities through grant in aid, specific grants, strategic commissioning and procurement of services. Payments to charities in the last three years, where the charity received more than £100,000 in any one year, are set out in the following table.
Charity name 2008-091 2007-08 2006-07 NDPBs with exempt charity status British Library 69,809 106,608 114,281 British Museum 40,742 45,055 46,605 Imperial War Museum 19,041 22,304 21,034 Museum of London 3 8,826 8,593 National Gallery 17,905 25,798 26,336 National Maritime Museum 16,011 18,636 18,354 National Museum of Science and Industry 31,634 41,484 42,417 National Museums Liverpool 17,766 22,508 23,172 National Portrait Gallery 6,098 7,193 6,771 Natural History Museum 40,318 45,425 47,785 Tate Gallery 50,949 46,097 35,661 The Royal Armouries 6,437 8,917 8,273 Victoria and Albert Museum 33,844 45,954 43,637 Wallace Collection 3,295 4,384 3,324 Registered charities Arts Council of England 314,803 425,992 476,552 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 0 0 254 British Red Cross Society 0 0 1,158 Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 225 455 450 Churches Conservation Trust 2,250 3,062 2,462 Design Museum 414 503 530 Geffrye Museum 1,610 2,215 1,571 Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College 1,500 1,500 1,500 Horniman Museum 3,134 4,358 4,467 Legacy Trust UK 0 6,000 0 Media Trust 245 333 338 Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester 3,566 4,451 4,886 Museums, Libraries and Archives Council 46,489 64,271 52,318 National Children’s Bureau 101 152 184 National Film and Television School 2,013 3,013 3,415 National Football Museum 112 144 104 National Foundation for Youth Music 1,133 304 376 Norwich Heritage and Regeneration Trust 312 123 45 Royal National Theatre 0 1 315 Sir John Soane’s Museum 1,048 1,389 1,264 Sound Sense 0 218 107 South Bank Centre 661 611 55 The Jerwood Charity 0 30 220 The Work Foundation 0 70 165 UK Antarctic Heritage Trust 0 150 0 Wedgewood Museum 103 142 0 York Museums and Galleries Trust 133 3 0 1 To 30 November 2008. Notes: 1. The Department changed its accounting system at the end of 2005-06. Comparative information for 2005-06 could be provided only at disproportionate cost. We have provided year to date figures for 2008-09. 2. For grant programmes that are jointly funded by DCMS and other organisations, only DCMS’s share of the funding to the charity is included.