THE CAMPAIGN FOR DRAWING

Registered charity 1114811 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity delivers programmes to encourage and develop the use of drawing both by the general public and by professionals. The annual Big Draw is a month-long season of drawing events in October across the UK. The Power Drawing: Professional Development Programme shares with educators what the charity has learnt about the purposes and uses of drawing as an aid to learning.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE DRAWING BY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN ALL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, WITH THE AIM OF ENGAGING THEM IN CREATIVE ACTIVITIES, AS A MEDIUM FOR LEARNING, TO FACILITATE INTELLECTUAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TO ENCOURAGE GREATER CULTURAL APPRECIATION AND TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS, PARTICULARLY THROUGH DRAWING, IN A RANGE OF SETTINGS SUCH AS COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, HERITAGE SITES, LIBRARIES, COMMUNITY CENTRES AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PARKS, OPEN SPACES AND THE COUNTRYSIDE; AND2 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,832 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a significant deficit in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £3,419, which the trustees consider necessary to continue activities and meet commitments for the following year. The charity has secured new sponsorship from Urban Space Holdings Ltd and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust to replace previous funding.

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 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 12/02/2025, 12 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 18/03/2022, 46 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ERIC GEORGE REYNOLDSchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• Daniel McAuliffe
• Graham Southern
• Mark Chester

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL.

• THE ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL income £4.5m
• SUPPORTED COMMUNITY BUSINESS (SPECIAL NEEDS) income £325k
• THE CREATIVITY CENTRE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £29k
• PROFESSIONALS AID COUNCIL income £199k
• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• DRIVE income £25.2m

Side by side with its peers

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