CREATIVE MENTORS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1130788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity aims to help make the arts curriculum at state secondary schools more accessible and rewarding for dyslexic and dyspraxic children. It trains dyslexic arts graduates in dyslexia awareness and specialist teaching strategies, preparing them to work in schools alongside the existing staff who are engaged in arts teaching.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ("THE OBJECTS") ARE SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DYSLEXIC AND DYSPRAXIC PERSONS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £34,926, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £84,015. The trustees report that the charity holds sufficient cash reserves to meet current obligations, with general funds representing 145% of charitable expenditure. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were identified in the filing.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 06834521

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.

• BLESSLEY, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 25/04/2023on trustee list
• WHITBY-COLLINS, Andrew Nicholas — director, appointed 29/01/2015on trustee list
• CUMMINGS, Alan John, Professor — director, appointed 24/04/2009on trustee list
• PEERLESS, Bartholomew Guy — director, appointed 03/03/2009on trustee list
• RANKIN, Qona — director, appointed 03/03/2009on trustee list
• JTC (UK) LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 29/09/2022

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• QONA RANKINchair
• Andrew Charles Blessley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Nicholas Whitby-Collins
• BARTHOLOMEW GUY PEERLESS · trustee of 7 other charities
• PROFESSOR ALAN JOHN CUMMINGS

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

Operates in: Camden · City Of Westminster · Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CREATIVE MENTOR NETWORK.

• CREATIVE MENTOR NETWORK income £404k
• MADE BY DYSLEXIA income £980k
• THE DYSLEXIA TEACHING CENTRE income £62k
• THE CREATIVITY CENTRE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £29k
• MASTERS FOUNDATION income £999k
• ARTIS FOUNDATION income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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