ARK - T CENTRE

Registered charity 1079495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARK T CENTRE

Ark T is a community arts charity based in Oxford, working primarily in East Oxford. We use arts and creativity to support the mental health and wellbeing of local people, including children, young people and adults, people living with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQIA people. Our programmes are co created with the community and shaped by ongoing listening to respond to local needs.

Objects

1. The advancement of education in the arts in the city of Oxford and particularly in the area of Cowley ("the area of benefit") for the benefit of the local community and in particular to provide facilities for the preparation and presentation of artistic works.2. The advancement of health of those living in the area of benefit by providing creative activities which promote better mental health and wellbeing.

Area of benefit: AREA OF CITY OF OXFORD AND PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF COWLEY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £25,150 for the year ended December 2025, with total income of £331,596 and total expenditure of £306,446. Unrestricted reserves stood at £48,492, which the trustees state is just over their target policy of three months' operating costs. However, the trustees acknowledge inevitable uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to the current financial situation.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — Ark T Centre Oxford (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Joseph Levy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donnia Reafat
• Hassan Elmi Sabriye
• Ivan Wise · trustee of 1 other charity
• Johanna Rice

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 STOCKTON ARTS CENTRE.

• STOCKTON ARTS CENTRE income £2.0m
• SOCIAL ARK income £389k
• Ark Cancer Charity income £384k
• COMMUNITY CONCERN ARK income £25k
• ARK RESETTLEMENT SERVICES income £1.9m
• THE ARK FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE income £391k

Side by side with its peers

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