THE KENDAL BREWERY ARTS CENTRE TRUST LIMITED
Registered charity 1086789 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, THE BREWERY
Provision of balanced and diverse programme of artistic and educational activity across all art forms
Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds are in deficit, with a balance of £114,305 at 31 March 2025, following the release of permanent endowment funds to support operations. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £382,779, equivalent to three months of support costs, but free reserves are currently £0. Financial sustainability is identified as the highest risk, with a strategy in place to reduce the historic deficit and build reserves over the next five years.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“Free reserves are currently £0 but the Charity’s financial strategy aims to build reserves incrementally year-on-year and to reach target within the next five years.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Kendal Catering Company Limited
“The following was a subsidiary undertaking of the Charity: Name Company Registered office Principal Class of Holding Included in number activity shares consolidation Kendal Catering 01064847 Brewery Arts, 122a Catering Ordinary 100% Yes Company Limited Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, England, LA9 4HE”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- WALSH, Kerrie Joanne — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- BULLOCK, Gareth Michael — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- DALE, Paul Christopher — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- EMERY, Annabel Charlotte — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- HYLAND, John William — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- LEATHER, Adrian Ruary — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- PATTINSON, Charles Norman — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
- HUNT, Samuel John — director, appointed 20/05/2021on trustee list
- STEVENS, David Lee — director, appointed 11/09/2018on trustee list
- LAWSON, Abigail Anne — director, appointed 11/09/2018on trustee list
- COOK, Laura — secretary, appointed 23/07/2026
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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
£741k
Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (42% 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: 27.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
- ADRIAN LEATHER
- Abigail Lawson
- Annabel Charlotte Emery
- Charles Pattinson
- DAVID LEE STEVENS · trustee of 1 other charity
- Gareth Bullock
- John Hyland
- Kerrie Walsh
- Paul Dale
- Sam John Hunt
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Cumbria
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE KENDAL BREWERY ARTS CENTRE TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds are in deficit, with a balance of £114,305 at 31 March 2025, following the release of permanent endowment funds to support operations. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £382,779, equivalent to three months of support costs, but free reserves are currently £0. Financial sustainability is identified as the highest risk, with a strategy in place to reduce the historic deficit and build reserves over the next five years. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.
Who funds THE KENDAL BREWERY ARTS CENTRE TRUST LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name THE KENDAL BREWERY ARTS CENTRE TRUST LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE HOLEHIRD TRUST.
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