DISABILITY ARTS IN SHROPSHIRE

Registered charity 1090677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

DASH is a practical Disability Arts development organisation, which works across the locally, regionally, nationally and internationally with disabled and deaf people and working in partnership with arts and cultural organisations to develop disability arts practice.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES WHICH PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AMONGST DISABLED PEOPLE IN SHROPSHIRE AND DISABILITY ARTS IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY. TO INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ARTS, IN THE BELIEF THAT DISABLED PEOPLE'S CREATIVITY SHOULD BE MORE WIDELY RECOGNISED AND VALIDATED, AND TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS.

Area of benefit: SHROPSHIRE

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £47,669, increasing its total fund balances to £287,320. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £229,865, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover between three and six months' expenditure. The trustees have revised their reserves policy to maintain reserves equivalent to three months of operating costs to better support programme development.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Ashleychair
• Amanda Colledge
• Ayesha Jones
• Dr Gemma Marmalade
• Emalee Beddoes-Davis
• James Shreeve
• Louise Mensah
• Rebecca Beasley
• Sonia Boue Nee Garcia-Lora

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DASH ARTS LIMITED.

• DASH ARTS LIMITED income £323k
• DASH (DISABILITIES AND SELF HELP / DELIO AG ANABLEDD A SIALENS HUNANGYMORTH) income £200k
• DISABILITY ARTS CYMRU income £274k
• DISABILITY ARTS ONLINE income £490k
• DASH (DESTITUTE ASYLUM SEEKERS HUDDERSFIELD) income £295k
• THE DASH CHARITY income £824k

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