LUTON CULTURAL SERVICES TRUST

Registered charity 1122964 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LUTON CULTURE

Luton Culture comprises arts, community centres, libraries and museums. Our facilities received over 1.45 million visits. Core library and museum services and arts development activities are provided free of charge with most events and performances subsidised.

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LEARNING AND INFORMATION CENTRES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES; AND/OR3.2 THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED TO PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE,INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES OR SERVICES; AND/OR3.3 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

Area of benefit: LUTON AND WIDER AREA OF EAST OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £183,771 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees confirmed that secured revenue funding of £1.98m has been obtained for the following year and that the going concern basis remains appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06373488
• Trading subsidiary: LCST TRADING LIMITED Companies House 06474682 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MORGAN-MACLEOD, William David — director, appointed 14/01/2026not on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Nigel John — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• ISLES, Charmaine Rosemary — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• LUDDINGTON, Julia Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Bilal — director, appointed 24/03/2022on trustee list
• BEGUM, Julma — director, appointed 09/02/2021on trustee list
• LARREA, Carlota, Dr — director, appointed 09/05/2019on trustee list
• SADIQ, Sufian — director, appointed 17/09/2018on trustee list
• SMALLEY, Robert Slade — director, appointed 17/09/2018on trustee list
• STRANGE, Andrew Mark — director, appointed 22/04/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 20.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STRANGE
• Bilal Hussain
• Charmaine Isles
• Dr Carlota Larrea
• Julia Luddington
• Julma Begum
• Nigel Marshall
• Robert Smalley
• SUFIAN SADIQ · trustee of 5 other charities
• Will Morgan-Macleod

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

Operates in: Luton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £436k
• ISLAMIC CULTURAL SOCIETY LUTON MOSQUE income £1.0m
• LUTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £726k
• LUTON TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £999k
• LUTON ALL WOMEN CENTRE income £994k
• COMMUNITY INTEREST LUTON income £194k

Side by side with its peers

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