PROJECT ART WORKS

Registered charity 1104301 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Project Art Works is a unique visual art organization that creates opportunities with and for young people and adults who have complex needs to engage with the world and express themselves through art. Project Art Works is based in Hastings, East Sussex and runs a range of projects, programmes and exhibitions that have a national reach.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS, AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PRACTICE AND STUDY OF ART AS A FORM OF THERAPY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EAST SUSSEX, GREATER LONDON, KENT, SURREY & WEST SUSSEX

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hastings, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the company reported a profit for the year of £191, with total turnover of £87,021. The balance sheet shows net current assets of £1, resulting in total shareholders' funds of £1. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the company's ability to continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Deeks Evans Audit Services Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £740k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLARE WHISTLER-MACFARLAND
• Gemma Pugh
• James Cannell
• Kimberley Jane Balukiewicz
• Marie-Elaine Croucher
• Nick Ewbank
• Sarah Elizabeth Young
• Victoria Helen Hooper

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · East Sussex · Kent · Liverpool City · Milton Keynes · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• HASTINGS ARTS FORUM income £34k
• WYSING ARTS CHARITY income £863k
• UP PROJECTS income £350k
• DIGITAL - WORKS income £67k
• ART INSTITUTIONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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