THE ARTS SOCIETY SOLIHULL

Registered charity 1133670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOLIHULL DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY, SOLIHULL DFAS

We provide an annual lecture programme on varied subjects in the field of fine and decorative arts. We arrange visits to appropriate venues and organise study days and holidays related to our charitable aims and objectives. We support Arts Volunteering and have a Heritage Volunteering group.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THE CULTIVATION, APPRECIATION AND STUDY OF THE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS AND THE GIVING OF AID TO OR FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S NATIONAL ARTISTIC HERITAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £21,311 in a Community Saver account designated as a reserve fund to protect sustainability. The Committee sets and reviews its reserves policy having regard to the Society’s financial position and commitments. No specific reserves target or unrestricted reserves figure is explicitly stated in the provided text.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILLIP GRIFFITHSchair
• Annette Shillaker
• Di Grainger
• Janet Marsh
• Judith Carver
• LORNA HELEN BOSLEY
• Lynda Jane Donaldson
• Maureen Rachael Hill
• Rosemarie Cope

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Solihull · Staffordshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOLIHULL SOCIETY OF ARTS.

• SOLIHULL SOCIETY OF ARTS income £44k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY, CORINIUM income £53k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH WEST NORFOLK income £47k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY CAMBRIDGE income £36k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY SOLENT income £31k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY STRATFORD UPON AVON. income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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