LEVEL CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1124419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST MOVEMENT LIMITED

The Level Centre Ltd works with learning disabled people, creating and promoting arts projects which develop their unique creative abilities and which celebrate the art that 'difference' makes

Objects

To promote, maintain, improve and advance education and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science in contemporary visual, performing and digital arts, for the benefit of the public in general with special reference to disabled people, learning disabled people and people with complex needs.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted and restricted reserves increased to £586,211 at the year end, up from £387,718 in the previous year, resulting in a net income of £198,493. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and have determined to hold a contingency fund sufficient to cover operating costs. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no long-term investments.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Level Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart John Allenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alex Henwood
• Claire Lockwood
• Ian Charles Widdows
• Jessica Kate Ashley
• Joseph Marshall
• Julie Usherwood
• Omar Khan
• Rebecca Brown

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Northamptonshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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