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About us
Who we are
Gerald Coke Handel Foundation (registered charity no. 1058589)
The GCHF is a Company Limited by Guarantee No. 03201907 with a Council of Members and the Secretary’s duties relate to that type of entity under the Companies Acts.
Formed in 1996, the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation administers the endowment that accompanies the Gerald Coke Handel Collection and assists the Foundling Museum with the care of the Collection, which came to the Museum through the Government’s Allocation in Lieu scheme. The Board includes two trustees nominated by the Handel Institute and one trustee nominated by the Foundling Museum; five independent trustees are appointed from persons responding to advertisements as vacancies arise.
The Foundation’s objects are to advance public education by providing research facilities for academics, musicologists, musicians, students, writers, researchers and all those interested in the life and work of Handel, his associates and contemporaries, the musical environment of his time, the printing and publishing of music in the eighteenth century, and related subjects. It also supports relevant publications and displays of the Collection.
