BEAVERS ARTS LIMITED

Registered charity 1068736 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B ARTS, B.ARTS, BEAVERS ARTS

To promote, maintain, improve and advance education and to increase the availability of arts and promote, encourage and increase the appreciation and understanding of the arts generally.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TO INCREASE THE AVAILABILITY OF ARTS AND TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS GENERALLY.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £150,422, which is above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £85,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £18,834 for the year, driven largely by grants received for specific projects.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 — “We are an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation 2023-2026” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID RENNIEchair
• Adrian Ball
• Alexandra Melisse Amanda Scott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alicia Walker
• Amanda Boyd-Smith
• Anthony Jones
• Benedict McManus
• Christopher Twigg
• Lydia Naylor
• Monaliza Gabal
• Sarfraz Hussain

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

Operates in: Denmark · France · Germany · Norway · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

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 ARTSWORK LIMITED.

• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• ART GENE LIMITED income £404k
• HARLOW ART TRUST income £490k
• PEOPLE'S THEATRE ARTS GROUP LIMITED income £345k

Side by side with its peers

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