COVENTRY ARTSPACE LIMITED

Registered charity 1129980 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An independent arts organisation supporting engagement with high quality visual arts practice in Coventry by:? providing affordable spaces for artists and curators to work, exhibit, meet and create in? working with community and cultural partners to nurture and celebrate visual arts? providing and promoting development opportunities to artists and curators? delivering visual arts projects

Objects

1 TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC IN COVENTRY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE IN IN NEED DUE TO YOUTH, AGE, SOCIAL OR DISADVANTAGE, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THE SAID RESIDENTS TO ENGAGE IN THE ARTS AND EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND TO DO SO IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.2 TO ENCOURAGE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS, BY INCREASING ACCESS TO THE ARTS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PARTICIPATORY ARTS OUTREACH PROJECTS, SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: COVENTRY

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

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

Latest income
£29k
Latest spending
£27k
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus and intact unrestricted reserves of £10,169, meeting its policy target of retaining three months' operating costs. The trustees acknowledge ongoing challenges with capacity and the need to secure future funding to ensure the long-term future of the organisation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months' operating costs (held: £10k)
“our reserves policy is to retain three months' operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£29k£27k
31/03/2024£54k£59k
31/03/2023£55k£87k
31/03/2022£155k£123k
31/03/2021£83k£72k

Common questions

Is COVENTRY ARTSPACE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus and intact unrestricted reserves of £10,169, meeting its policy target of retaining three months' operating costs. The trustees acknowledge ongoing challenges with capacity and the need to secure future funding to ensure the long-term future of the organisation. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/04/2022£10k"Stories That Made Us (the South Asian Narrative)"
The National Lottery Community Fund20/08/2007£9kOur World