Minutes of a meeting of the Board held on Thursday 11 July 2024
Present
John Booth CVO DL (Chair)
Diana Berry
Catherine Goodman LVO
Katrin Henkel
Sir John Kingman KCB FRS
James Lambert OBE (for items 6 onwards)
Rosemary Leith
David Marks
Andrew Marr
Dounia Nadar (for items 1 to 5)
Rosalind Nashashibi
Tonya Nelson
Stuart Roden
Professor Dame Molly Stevens DBE FRS FREng
Andrew Truby (Board Apprentice)
Apologies
None
In attendance
Dr Gabriele Finaldi - Director
Paul Gray - Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer
Victoria Hayes - Secretary to the Board and Head of Governance (Minutes)
Andy Hibbert - Director of Finance and Resources
Jane Knowles - Director of Public Engagement
Anh Nguyen - Director of Development
Susan Noonan - Chief Commercial Officer
Christine Riding - Director of Collections and Research
John Stack - Incoming Director of Digital Innovation and Technology
1. Declarations of Interest
1.1. There were no declarations of interest.
2. Approvals:
2.1. The Minutes from the meeting held on 23 May were approved.
2.2. Information has been excluded under s.22 FOI 2000.
2.3. The Loans Out paper was approved, noting the risk assessment attached to the paper.
3. Annual Report and Accounts, Report from the Audit Committee and Risk Register:
3.1. Subject to a couple of minor comments, the Board endorsed the Audit Committee’s approval of the Annual Report and Accounts, the Report from the Audit Committee and the Risk Register.
4. Questions on the Director’s Report:
4.1. The Director reported that Dr Emma Capron had recently been appointed as Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Paintings and Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper as Curator of Later Italian, Spanish and French Painting.
4.2. There were no questions on the Director’s Report.
5. Update on NG200 Welcome and Bicentenary Programme:
5.1. The Chair of the Masterplan Committee updated the Board on progress in the NG200 Welcome project.
5.2. The Chairman congratulated the Director of Development on the team’s success in finalising the NG200 fundraising campaign a year ahead of plan and said that an announcement would be made the following day.
5.3. The Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer reported that the NG200 Bicentenary programme was going well with some projects nearing completion.
6. Presentation of the Collections Development Strategy:
6.1. The Director of Collections and Research gave her presentation.
6.2–6.5. Information has been excluded under s.22, s.36 and s.43 FOI 2000.
6.6. The strategy was approved.
7. First steps in the development of a National Gallery 10-year strategy:
7.1. The Director reminded Trustees that the Gallery is in the midst of delivering its current strategy, which would take it beyond the Bicentenary to 2026. He and other Directors gave a presentation.
7.2–7.7. Information has been excluded under s.22, s.36 and s.43 FOI 2000
7.8. The Board endorsed the approach taken in the presentations.
8. AOB: None