ART SPACE

Registered charity 1118456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing arts and therapies services to primary and secondary schools

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF A MIXED PROGRAMME OF ART THERAPY GROUPS INDIVIDUAL ART THERAPY LESSONS AND ARTIST-LED AFTER SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE HACKNEY, LONDON

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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Latest income
£497k
Latest spending
£475k
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £525,467, an increase from the previous year's £503,337, while total expenditure decreased to £475,190 from £548,409. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity is a going concern with sufficient reserves. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£565k
Total spending
£548k
Reserves (reported)
£503k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£497k£475k
31/03/2025£565k£548k
31/03/2024£604k£540k
31/03/2023£581k£508k
31/03/2022£503k£432k

Common questions

Is ART SPACE financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £525,467, an increase from the previous year's £503,337, while total expenditure decreased to £475,190 from £548,409. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity is a going concern with sufficient reserves. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation12/01/2012£60kGrant to Artspace
The National Lottery Community Fund07/07/2011£8kLearning to Learn Project
The National Lottery Community Fund12/05/2010£82kA Space for Support

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONTAINS ART CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ART SPACE£497k—0unclear—no doubt
CONTAINS ART CIO FY2025£330kUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
SPACE FY2024£256k—0above—no doubt
ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD FY2024£99k—0unclear—no doubt
ARTSWORK LIMITED FY2025£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
SPIKE ISLAND ARTSPACE LIMITED FY2025£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.