ACCESSIBLE ARTS & MEDIA

Registered charity 1072902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACCESSIBLE ARTS AND MEDIA LIMITED, ACCESSIBLE ARTS LIMITED

Accessible Arts & Media runs a range of inclusive creative learning and wellbeing projects for groups including disabled adults and young people, older people with dementia and people with enduring mental health problems. Our projects help people develop the skills and confidence to connect with their local community and have more of a say in the things that matter to them.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE ARTS AND MEDIA EDUCATION AND OPEN ACCESS TO THE ARTS IN YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ORGANISING TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS, PROVIDING FACILITIES AND INFORMATION, SUPPORTING GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS AND SKILLS TO FOCUS ACTIVELY ON THOSE WHO MAY NOT OTHERWISE ENJOY SUCH ACCESS THROUGH AGE, RACE, DISABILITY, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES2. TO FURTHER BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ESTABLISHING OR SECURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY AND MEDIA CENTRE AND BY MAINTAINING OR MANAGING OR CO-OPERATING WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER RELEVANT ORGANISATION IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE

Area of benefit: YORK AND SURROUNDING AREA

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a £10,424 deficit, primarily due to non-recurrent recruitment costs. Per the trustees' review, the charity held £58,642 in total reserves, of which £25,642 was free, while noting that grant funding saw a slight decrease due to competitive pressures.

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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Accessible Arts & Media (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Anderton
• Michael Edward Cross
• Peter Michael James Baumann
• Rosemary Kent · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Waller

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• ACCESSART income £342k
• Arts for Dementia income £329k
• ARTS BRIDGE CHARITY income £27k
• ACCESS CHRISTIAN MEDIA income £25k
• REACH INCLUSIVE ARTS income £87k
• AMBERLIEGH income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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