HARTLEY ARTS GROUP

Registered charity 1136586 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAG

The object of the Group is to educate the public in the dramatic and operatic arts, and to develop community participation and public appreciation in the said arts. To achieve these objectives the Group promotes plays, dramas comedies,operas, operettas, and other dramatic and operatic works of educative value.It also organises activities to support these works.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS, AND TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS.

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 · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £1,830.84 for the year ending 31 March 2025, resulting in net assets decreasing from £29,580.79 to £27,749.95. The filing notes that the organization is exempt from audit but has been independently examined, with cash at bank totaling £28,420.67.

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 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Jane Lewischair
• Craig Wooldridge
• Helen Robson
• Jake Featherstone
• William Peter Hansell

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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