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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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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

• NICOLA MARY GAYE BABONEAUchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNA FODOROVA
• DARRA MCFADYEN
• PRUDENCE ANNE BARNES
• STEFANIA PUTZ-WILLIAMS

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• SPACE income £256k
• ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD income £99k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• SPIKE ISLAND ARTSPACE LIMITED income £1.5m
• ART GENE LIMITED income £404k

Side by side with its peers

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