THE POETRY ARCHIVE

Registered charity 1093858 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Poetry Archive is an online resource, which makes available recordings of significant English-language poets reading their work and surrounds them with a wide range of educational information to help visitors enjoy them.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT ARE TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN POETRY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £45,474 for the year, reducing total unrestricted reserves from £123,836 to £80,256. The trustees note that based on current budgets, the charity is likely to fall below its required free reserves level by September 2026, although they have determined that actions taken are sufficient to mitigate this uncertainty. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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
• Investing charity funds 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• THE NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND — “We gratefully acknowledge the support of; THE NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Susanna Walker
• Ben Murray
• Imtiaz Dharker
• Julia Mary Bird
• Lavinia Caroline Osborne Singer
• Robert Willliam Seatter
• Stephen Cleary

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE POETRY SCHOOL.

• THE POETRY SCHOOL income £475k
• THE POETRY SOCIETY income £1.1m
• THE POETRY TRANSLATION CENTRE LTD income £211k
• THE ARIEL POETRY RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £64k
• THE JOSEPHINE HART POETRY FOUNDATION income £326k
• POETRY LONDON LTD income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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