ARTSREACH

Registered charity 1058198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, maintain, improve and advance education within the community at large and particularly in the rural areas of the County of Dorset by the promotion, performance and encouragement of the Arts including the arts of drama, dance, music, singing, literature, sculpture, painting, photography and cinematography.

Objects

PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION, PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING DRAMA, DANCE, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMATOGRAPHY

Area of benefit: RURAL AREAS OF DORSET

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £4,183 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £271,841 and total expenditure of £267,658. Free reserves stood at £138,064, which the trustees consider consistent with their policy of maintaining three to six months' expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “Artsreach is grateful to our principal funders, Arts Council England and Dorset Council.” (source page)
• Dorset Council — “Artsreach is grateful to our principal funders, Arts Council England and Dorset Council.” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Deborah Jane Evanschair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Francesca Hurrell
• IAN WILLIAM SCOTT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Walton
• James Stuart Smyllie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Stein · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Newman
• Sheila Jane Wade

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARTREACH(TRUST) LTD.

• ARTREACH(TRUST) LTD income £604k
• DORSET VISUAL ARTS income £85k
• QUARANTINE income £563k
• FIRST ART income £450k
• CREATIVE ARTS EAST income £771k
• SHALLAL income £147k

Side by side with its peers

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