JELLY LEG'D CHICKEN ARTS CENTRE

Registered charity 1100730 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

jelly is an arts organisation in the heart of Reading. Established in 1993 as an artist led studio and exhibition facility, jelly is now a registered charity limited by guarantee, running exhibitions, educational activities, special arts events and selling high quality contemporary arts and crafts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE VISUAL ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING STUDIO SPACE AND FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS AND BY ORGANISING EVENTS WHICH IMPROVE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE ARTS, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE CREATIVE PROCESS INVOLVED IN THE VISUAL ARTS, THEREBY DEVELOPING AESTHETIC APPRECIATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE READING

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £337 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £160,430. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £31,792, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure (circa £25,000). The trustees note that the reserves position remained stable despite a challenging fundraising period and economic pressures.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04623660

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

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.

• BOLLEN, Liberty Bea — director, appointed 09/04/2025on trustee list
• CONIBEAR, Hannah Mary Grace — director, appointed 28/10/2023on trustee list
• FARETTA, Rosie — director, appointed 17/09/2021on trustee list
• GILBERT, Christina Catherine — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list
• DEWIS, Alexandra Katherine — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list
• BUCKLE, Holly Gemma, Mx — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• HOOPER, Timothy Edward — director, appointed 06/02/2018on trustee list
• GENIS, Mary Venetia — director, appointed 23/12/2002on trustee list
• DE MOXOM, Laura Frances — secretary, appointed 09/04/2025
• STALLARD, Suzanne — secretary, appointed 01/01/2005

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Edward Hooperchair
• Alexandra Katherine Dewis
• Christina Gilbert
• Hannah Conibear
• Liberty Bea Bollen
• MARY VENETIA GENIS
• Mx Holly Gemma Buckle
• Rosie Faretta

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD.

• ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD income £99k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• UCHELDRE CENTRE income £3.0m
• THE SHOWROOM GALLERY LTD. income £409k

Side by side with its peers

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