CREATE (ARTS) LIMITED

Registered charity 1099733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CREATE

Create uses the creative arts to help transform the lives of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in our society.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS.B) TO PROMOTE THE USE OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY THE CREATIVE ARTS, AS A WAY OF;I) RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, SICK, DISABLED, ELDERLY AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION.II) REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS.III) RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THE UNEMPLOYED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £53,600 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with unrestricted funds increasing to £1,149,228. The charity holds significant cash reserves of £1,549,029 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Total income was £1,574,288, primarily derived from grants and donations, while total expenditure amounted to £1,478,970.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth. Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Create (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony George Cateschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Topolski
• Dawn Andrea Carter-McDonald
• JOHN BROADIS
• MARIT MEYER-BELL
• Simone Jade Rita Wright
• Vanessa Sharp

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CREATE ARTS DEVELOPMENT LTD..

• CREATE ARTS DEVELOPMENT LTD. income £28k
• NEW CREATIONS income £183k
• CREATE FOUNDATION income £200k
• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m
• Creative Kids Centre income £173k
• YOUTH CREATE income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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