COCKPIT ARTS

Registered charity 1029643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cockpit Arts is the only creative incubator for designer-makers in the UK. The organisation supports and promotes designer-makers at all stages of their career development by providing workspace, professional development services and promotion.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULARLY BY PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR APPLIED ARTISTS TO BE TRAINED INCLUDING WHERE POSSIBLE PERSONS DISADVANTAGED BY SOCIAL ECONOMIC OR PHYSICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND BY THE HOLDING OF PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS OF THE WORK OF SUCH ARTISTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £84,809 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in free unrestricted reserves being in deficit by £124,084. This falls significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of holding free reserves equivalent to three months' running costs, which was calculated at £267,072 at year-end. Despite this negative reserve position, the trustees and auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02801969
• Trading subsidiary: COCKPIT ARTS & EXHIBITIONS LTD. Companies House 03418311

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PUTZ, Anne Catherine, Dr — director, appointed 07/11/2025on trustee list
• GARRIGUES MARTINEZ, Cristina — director, appointed 05/11/2025not on trustee list
• FITZGERALD, Preston — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• GRAND, James Edward Laurence — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• BHOGAITA, Kawshik — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• SMART, Ian Victor — director, appointed 19/07/2024on trustee list
• MURRAY WATTERS, Gavin Thomas — director, appointed 19/07/2024not on trustee list
• GILROY, Darla-Jane — director, appointed 27/08/2023on trustee list
• VON MALLINCKRODT, Davina Anne Lore — director, appointed 07/04/2021not on trustee list
• NATHWANI, Mehul — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• DEWAN, Nishita — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• AMBERG, Bill William Mark — director, appointed 27/06/2017on trustee list
• MOORE, David William — director, appointed 12/06/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Davina Anne Lore VON MALLINCKRODTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bill Amberg
• Cristina Garrigues Martinez
• Darla-Jane Gilroy
• David Moore
• Dr Anne Catherine Putz
• Gavin Watters
• Ian Smart
• James Edward Laurence Grand · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kawshik Bhogaita
• Mehul Nathwani
• Nishita Dewan
• Preston Fitzgerald

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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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED.

• THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• CRAFTSPACE income £338k
• ROYAL INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS income £1.9m
• CRAFTS COUNCIL income £3.6m
• CREATIVE CULTURE TRUST CIO income £51k
• OUTSIDE IN ART income £572k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.