CHILLI STUDIOS (NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD ARTS STUDIO) LIMITED

Registered charity 1116957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NAGAS, NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD ARTS STUDIO LIMITED

Aim: Improving Mental Health through creativity. To use creativity as a tool to influence positive changes in people's mental wellbeing and attitudes towards mental health.To achieve this we run a service 4 days a week, this provides an innovative range of creative based services that are directed at improving and enhancing the quality of life, health and social integration of its members.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS LIVING IN NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD (HERE-IN AFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") THROUGH THE USE AND PROMOTION OF ART AND ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating surplus of £6,658 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £75,178, which the trustees consider prudent given potential liabilities. The charity secured additional funding streams and reduced expenditure to ensure financial sustainability.

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 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
• 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 05028177

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chilli Studios (Newcastle and Gateshead Arts Studios) Ltd (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.

• BRANDON, Toby — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• BANKS, John — director, appointed 21/12/2017on trustee list
• HUNTER, Douglas — director, appointed 12/10/2010on trustee list
• CAMERON, Alisdair Stewart — director, appointed 28/01/2004on trustee list
• GIBBARD, Nikki Louise — secretary, appointed 01/01/2026
• HALL, Carole Ann — secretary, appointed 14/03/2018

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISDAIR STEWART CAMERON · trustee of 1 other charity
• DOUGLAS HUNTER
• Dr Toby Brandon
• JOHN BANKS
• NIKKI GIBBARD

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIND IN CROYDON LTD.

• MIND IN CROYDON LTD income £2.3m
• NORTH TYNESIDE ART STUDIO income £189k
• CAERPHILLY BOROUGH MIND income £348k
• FIG BRANCH income £468k
• THE STONES COMMUNITY TRUST income £170k
• NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £16.3m

Side by side with its peers

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