AESOP ARTS AND SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1134572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION

The Foundation's mission is to bring the transformative potential of the arts into people's daily lives. Its first major programme of action focuses on bringing the arts into the mainstream of health and social care services.

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THEUSE OF THE ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:3.1.1 ADVOCATING THE ROLE OF THE ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.2 PROMOTING GOOD PRACTICE AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.3 PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP WORKING AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IN THE HEALTHSECTOR AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH THE ARTS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.4 CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ARTS AND ALLASPECTS OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OFSUCH RESEARCH, AND3.1.5 PROMOTING TRAINING AMONGST EACH OF THOSE GROUPS SO AS TO BETTER ENABLETHEM TO DELIVER ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RESEARCHING, INVESTIGATING ANDDEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH, AND IMPACTON, HEALTH, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ANDIMPROVEMENT, THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN, AND THEREHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS, AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCHRESEARCH.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is being wound up and the financial statements are prepared on a realisation basis rather than a going concern basis. Unrestricted reserves of £54,136 are below the trustees' stated policy target of £100,000. The charity reported an operating deficit of £31,406 for the year.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 26/07/2024, 177 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06998306

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.

• THOMPSON, Andrew Stuart, Professor — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• CASSON, Julia Elizabeth — director, appointed 04/01/2022on trustee list
• GORDON, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/07/2019on trustee list
• THORNTON, Jacqueline Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/07/2019not on trustee list
• FENTON, Kevin, Professor — director, appointed 10/09/2018on trustee list
• HAMPTON, Mark Richard — director, appointed 08/09/2015on trustee list
• DANIEL, Peter David — director, appointed 08/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kevin Fentonchair
• Helen Gordon
• Jacqui Thornton
• Julia Elizabeth Casson
• Mark Richard Hampton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter David Daniel
• Professor Andrew Thompson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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