CINDERFORD ARTSPACE

Registered charity 1053492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A community arts centre with outreach programmes offering both educational & leisure opportunities in participatory & community arts to people of all ages & abilities.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE PEOPLE THROUGH LEISURE-TIME AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE ADN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THESE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £554,632, significantly exceeding the trustees' policy target of £55,000. The charity reported a net income of £45,569 for the year, driven by increased earned income and a significant legacy donation.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 02580953

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.

• BALLINGER, Penelope Jane, Dr — director, appointed 05/12/2025on trustee list
• COLE, Jenny Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2025on trustee list
• DIDCOTE, Louie Hawdon — director, appointed 05/12/2025on trustee list
• HAVERLY, Sue — director, appointed 20/04/2023on trustee list
• MILLMAN, Barbara Betty — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• LANDER, Karen — director, appointed 07/02/2020on trustee list
• WAYGOOD, Christine — director, appointed 04/12/2015on trustee list
• SIMMONDS, Keith — director, appointed 02/02/1996on trustee list
• JONES, Lynda — secretary, appointed 07/08/2023

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Millman
• Christine Waygood
• Dr Penelope Ballinger
• Jenny Cole
• KEITH SIMMONDS
• Karen Lander
• Louie Didcote
• Mary Catherine Mahon Mary Catherine Mahon
• Sue Haverly Sue Haverly

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DARTFORD ARTS CENTRE.

• DARTFORD ARTS CENTRE income £645k
• MACCLESFIELD COMMUNITY ARTSPACE income £59k
• ARTSPACE MERSEYSIDE income £46k
• ART SPACE income £497k
• ARTSPACE LIFESPACE income £775k
• WARE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £229k

Side by side with its peers

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