THE ART MINISTRY

Registered charity 1108227 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Art Ministry is a charity who run weekly arts and crafts groups and clubs for a wide variety of people from Essex. We focus on people who are most likely to benefit from the opportunity that being involved in creative activity provides for making friends, boosting self confidence and improving self esteem.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF ART IN ALL ITS ASPECTS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Castle Point, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £7,160 in 2024, with total receipts of £53,359 and total payments of £46,199. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves stood at £48,122 at year-end, contributing to total cash funds of £86,352. The trustees reviewed their reserves policy to ensure the charity can meet commitments and cope with funding fluctuations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 31/03/2025, 151 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 04/11/2022, 4 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Art Ministry (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLAN WEBB
• Cindy Chilvers
• Jane Marie Beeston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tanya Jane Sewell

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH EAST LONDON ARTS NETWORK.

• SOUTH EAST LONDON ARTS NETWORK income £177k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY, EAST GRINSTEAD (TASEG) income £44k
• SAXMUNDHAM ART STATION income £248k
• TRINITY COMMUNITY ARTS income £2.9m
• ART SPACE income £497k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY, CORINIUM income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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