SOLA ARTS

Registered charity 1128459 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SOLA ARTS works to bring communities together through the arts and the alleviation of poverty. We have a specialist focus of working with refugees and asylum seekers and people from the BRM communities however, our activities work with all people of all backgrounds including people with disabilities, the elderly for example.We use the arts and Art Therapy as tools for empowering and enabling.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF ARTS PROJECTS.2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BECOME DISPLACED PERSONS OR REFUGEES FROMTHE COUNTRIES OF THEIR ORIGIN OR DOMICILE BY REASONS OF HOSTILITIES,PERSECUTION, OPPRESSION, DISCRIMINATION, NATURAL DISTRESS OR OTHER LIKECAUSES, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OR NEED,HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.3. ANY OTHER PURPOSES CHARITABLE BY LAW FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that SOLA Arts reported a surplus of £34,768 for the year ended 29 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £101,640. The trustees confirm that these free reserves are sufficient to cover three months of running costs and other commitments as per their reserves policy. The filing indicates the charity is operating on a going concern basis with adequate liquidity.

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

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• 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
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06655438

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.

• MURSHID, Hyatt — director, appointed 10/02/2024on trustee list
• BARIKUMWE, Noel Urbain — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• YOUSEF, Nesrin — director, appointed 30/10/2019on trustee list
• OMAR, Lee Anthony — director, appointed 15/06/2012on trustee list
• SPIERS, Adele — director, appointed 13/02/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ADELE SPIERSchair
• Hyatt Murshid · trustee of 1 other charity
• LEE OMAR
• NESRIN YOUSEF
• Noel Urbain Barikumwe

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOMERSET ART WORKS income £187k
• CORE ARTS income £1.3m
• SOLIHULL SOCIETY OF ARTS income £44k
• SPAN ARTS income £313k
• SOFT TOUCH ARTS LIMITED income £773k
• APSARA ARTS income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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