LIFE WITH ART

Registered charity 1138836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042755 (OSCR)

Promotion of art through workshops and exhibitions and distribution of its resources to selected charities.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) YOUNG PEOPLE AND DISABLED PEOPLE. (2) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PEOPLE. (3) TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds decreased by £31,471 to £570,430, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The Trustees consider the financial position of the funds to be satisfactory and maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID NIGEL SEFTON PIGOTTchair
• Andrew Peter Robert Main
• Ian Andrew McKenzie Reid

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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