THE CREATIVE ART HOUSE

Registered charity 1063671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ART HOUSE

The Art House exists to ensure that artists with and without disabilities have equal access to facilities and opportunities in the visual arts and crafts.

Objects

1.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ARTS AND CULTURE BY PROVIDING EXPERIENCES OF ART AND ARTISTS THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS, WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS." 2. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN PARTICULAR THROUGH VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS."

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

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £149,686 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds falling to a deficit of £90,216. Per the trustees' report, the organization remains on a sound footing with a going concern basis applied, supported by strategic plans running through to 2027 and re-entry into the Arts Council's National Portfolio.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Ltd. 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 30/10/2023, 272 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Art House (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) — “Outreach to Ownership is an innovative cross-border research pilot which ran from January until September 2022 funded by a grant from the Ar…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

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 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Adrian Brookschair
• Dr Andrew Jonathan Langley
• Dr Samantha Lukic-Scott
• Jennifer Read
• Jessica Airdrie Taylor
• Rebecca Turner
• Sally Roads

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• ARTHOUSE UNLIMITED income £1.2m
• ARTISTS STUDIO COMPANY income £3.4m
• ARTS FOR ALL income £198k
• OUTSIDE IN ART income £572k
• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• WARE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £229k

Side by side with its peers

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