YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK
Registered charity 1067908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £154,647 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased costs and limited ability to raise prices. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the free and expendable reserves to be in line with their stated policy target, supported by secured Arts Council England funding and pledged donations.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Joe Hill — Director and Chief Executive (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£3.0m
Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (56% 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: 38.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (22/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- PETER ALEXANDER CLEGGchair · trustee of 1 other charity
- Alice Boff
- Carolyn Mary Lord
- Dr Susan Stuart-Smith
- Hannah Cork
- Helen Whitehouse
- Isabel Williams
- Katy Wickremesinghe
- Kerry Bishop
- Merran McRae · trustee of 1 other charity
- RICHARD WATTS · trustee of 1 other charity
- Rt Hon Alan Milburn
- Saad Ahmed Qureshi
- Simon Robert Armitage CBE
- Steven Holland
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City · Sheffield City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £154,647 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased costs and limited ability to raise prices. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the free and expendable reserves to be in line with their stated policy target, supported by secured Arts Council England funding and pledged donations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants.
Who funds YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK?
Funders whose own accounts filings name YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK as a grant recipient include THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION, THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION, THE ARNOLD BURTON 1998 CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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