WESTMINSTER ARTS

Registered charity 1025755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY OF WESTMINSTER ARTS COUNCIL

Westminster Arts is a community based charity established to promote social inclusion through the development and delivery of specialist arts programmes and activities. We work primarily with communities in the central London area, with a particular focus on supporting the needs of older people living with dementia and other mental health issues.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THOSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY AGE, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY (INCLUDING DEMENTIA) THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO VISUAL ARTS,PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, DANCE, MUSIC AND DRAMA

Area of benefit: CITY OF WESTMINSTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £99,530, which is above the charity's stated policy target of £60,000 (equivalent to four months' running costs). The charity reported a net income surplus of £21,606 for the year, having benefited from unrestricted funds raised in previous years, though it faces risks regarding the continuity of funding from the North West London Integrated Care Board.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Masonic Trust — “Resonate Arts are funded by The Masonic Trust” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Judith Mary Sweetingchair
• Annjana Ramesh
• Dang Hoang Phong Nguyen
• Frederic Michel Jean Mairet
• Hilary Roberta Woodhead
• Kathryn Louise Dixon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Wright

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH EAST LONDON ARTS NETWORK.

• SOUTH EAST LONDON ARTS NETWORK income £177k
• Stanley Arts income £1.4m
• PRISM ARTS income £300k
• Arts for Dementia income £329k
• WEST OF ENGLAND MUSIC AND ARTS income £3.4m
• SOMERSET ART WORKS income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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