ARTS 4 WELLBEING

Registered charity 1052496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH TYNESIDE ARTS STUDIO LIMITED

Arts 4 Wellbeing is a day opportunity service in South Tyneside for people with learning disabilities, mild to moderate mental health. We provide a warm relaxed and safe environment for our users, it enables members to participate in creative activities, to promote personal growth reduce social exclusion and provide them with effective therapeutic services whilst working towards increased recovery

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS LIVING IN SOUTH TYNESIDE (HERE-IN AFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") THROUGH THE USE AND PROMOTION OF ART AND ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: SOUTH TYNESIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £32,173 for the year, reducing its total unrestricted funds from £120,353 to £88,180. While the organization remains solvent with positive net assets, it relies heavily on restricted grants and NHS funding, which constituted the majority of its incoming resources. The accounts do not disclose a specific reserves policy target or highlight any immediate financial risks to its continuation.

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 4 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.

• 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03106834

Funders the charity credits

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

• Asda — “Asda support Arts 4 Wellbeing in all that we do, through raffle donations, craft donations and many more.” (source page)

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.

• HETHERINGTON, John — director, appointed 06/03/2023on trustee list
• MORRIS, Patricia — director, appointed 21/12/2008on trustee list
• BROWN, John — director, appointed 17/07/2007on trustee list
• WOOD, John Andrew — director, appointed 13/06/2007on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Fay — director, appointed 30/07/2003on 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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN ANDREW WOODchair
• FAY CUNNINGHAM · trustee of 4 other charities
• JOHN BROWN
• PATRICIA MORRIS
• john hetherington

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

Operates in: South Tyneside

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC4WELLBEING.

• MUSIC4WELLBEING income £109k
• ACCESSIBLE ARTS & MEDIA income £190k
• ART & SOUL income £58k
• ART FOR ALL MENTAL HEALTH income £55k
• ARTS THERAPIES FOR CHILDREN income £335k
• ARTY PARTY LIMITED income £95k

Side by side with its peers

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