ARTY-FOLKS

Registered charity 1107757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer Art for Therapy and a programme of therapeutic activities for adults of working age living with mental health conditions or suffering emotional distress in Coventry and Warwickshire. We run online courses as well as face-to-face creative peer support groups that can be accessed through our website www.arty-folks.org.uk.

Objects

(A) To relieve persons living with mental health conditions or suffering emotional distress by assisting such persons to realise their full potential and lead fulfilling lives through the provision of visual arts and wellbeing related activities.(B) TO MAINTAIN, MANAGE AND IMPROVE THE FACILITIES FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY AND ASSOCIATED BODIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WEST MIDLANDS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. The charity aims to maintain sufficient free funds to cover operational commitments for a period of four months, subject to continuous review.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Arty-Folks (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “We are over the moon to share the Arts Council England has awarded Arty-Folks £32,790 to fund Hand on Heart…” (source page)
• Coventry&Warwickshire Mental Health Collaborative Integrated — “We are thrilled to announce that Arty-Folks has been awarded 2 years of funding from Coventry&Warwickshire Mental Health Collaborative Integ…” (source page)
• Heart of England Community Foundation — “A project funded by the Heart of England Community Foundation Inclusive Communities Fund. We are excited to announce that we…” (source page)
• Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales — “We are delighted the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales used Arty-Folks as a case study to demonstrate the…” (source page)
• The People’s Postcode Lottery — “Thanks to the People’s Postcode Lottery Arty-Folks is a small charity and in recent years we have struggled to cover the costs to run our ar…” (source page)
• SEGRO — “SEGRO awarded Arty-Folks £1,000 Covid emergency funding to help us towards covering our annual core running costs. Arty-Folks spends yearly…” (source page)
• The People’s Health Trust — “The People’s Health Trust granted us twice 2-year funding that helped us further develop peer support and in particular enable those most vu…” (source page)
• The National Lottery — “The National Lottery, the Arts Council England and many more past and present funders helped with all areas of our work and we are extremely…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Sharkey
• John Peter GOUGH
• Miho Taka
• Serena Kaur Dha
• William Bryan

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• TALITHA ARTS income £107k
• ARTS FOR LIFE PROJECT (UK) income £275k
• CORE ARTS income £1.3m
• MK ARTS FOR HEALTH income £156k
• YOUTH ARTS AND HEALTH TRUST income £156k
• BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR ARTS THERAPIES income £489k

Side by side with its peers

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