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Freedom of information request

Team expenditure and income generation at The National Archives (TNA) for the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Freedom of information request reference
CAS-271335
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Request

I would appreciate it if you could provide the following details regarding your operations:

Education and Outreach Programme

  • What is the annual income generated by your Education and Outreach Programme?
  • What is the total FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) for the Education and Outreach team?
  • What is the total salary cost for this team?
    • Fundraising Team
  • What is the total FTE for the Fundraising team?
  • What is the total salary cost for this team?
    • Commercial Team
  • What is the total FTE for the Commercial team?
  • What is the total salary cost for this team?

Non-staff Operating Expenses

Please provide annual non-staffing costs (i.e., excluding salaries) for the following areas:

  • Fundraising
  • Licensing
  • Commercial
  • Education
  • Exhibition Costs
    • What is your total annual expenditure on exhibitions?
  • Food and Beverage
    • What is the annual income from your food and beverage offer?

For the purposes of my request, I would be grateful if you could provide the information for the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25, if available.

Outcome

Information provided.

Response

Parts of this query refer to TNA’s ‘commercial team’ and ‘fundraising team’. TNA does not have a ‘commercial’ team; however, for the purposes of this query, we have interpreted our equivalent of this as being a combination of our Licensing, Publishing, Digitisation, Digital Downloads, Image Library, and Retail teams. TNA also does not have a ‘fundraising’ team; however, for the purposes of this query, we have interpreted our equivalent of this as being our Grant Development team.

  • What is the annual income generated by your Education and Outreach Programme?
    • 2023/24 = £39k, 2024-25 = £3k
  • What is the total FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) for the Education and Outreach team?
    • 2023/24 = 14.8 FTE, 2024-25 = 14.3 FTE
  • What is the total salary cost for the Education and Outreach team?
    • 2023/24 = £722k, 2024/25 = £743k
  • What is the total FTE for the Fundraising team?
    • 2023/24 = 5.1 FTE, 2024/25 = 5.3 FTE
  • What is the total salary cost for the Fundraising team?
    • 2023/24 = £96k, 2024-25 = £96k
  • What is the total FTE for the Commercial team?
    • 2023/24 = 23.0 FTE, 2024/25 = 21.1 FTE
  • What is the total salary cost for the Commercial team?
    • 2023/24 = £1.09m, 2024/25 = £976k

Please provide annual non-staffing costs (i.e., excluding salaries) for the following areas:

  • Fundraising:
    • 2023/24 = £nil, 2024/25 = £nil
  • Licensing:
    • 2023/24 = £27k, 2024/25 = £563k
  • Commercial:
    • 2023/24 = 153k, 2024/25 = 757k (these figures include the Licensing figures stated above).
  • Education:
    • 2023/24 = £111k, 2024/25 = £150k
  • What is your total annual expenditure on exhibitions?
    • 2023/24 = £474k, 2024/25 = £514k
  • What is the annual income from your food and beverage offer?
    • 2023/24 = £nil, 2024/25 = £nil. TNA does not directly sell food and drink, this is done by a contractor, and we do not hold information about their profits and expenditure.