EDEN ARTS LTD

Registered charity 1139215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EDEN ARTS

Eden Arts offers cultural and artistic opportunities for the benefit of the residents of Cumbria and wider area.

Objects

Eden Arts Ltd is established for public benefit, to support the advancement, appreciation and understanding of the arts and to enrich people's lives through increased access to the arts and arts activity, in the Cumbrian District of Eden and beyond.

Area of benefit: EDEN DISTRICT

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a surplus of £93,221 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £168,399. The trustees report that these reserves cover 13 months of salary costs and are pleased with the progress made in building reserves. However, the filing notes that the company is dependent on the continued support of grant-aiding bodies to maintain its going concern status.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (45% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Antony Jackson
• CRISTINA BOWMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Ramsay
• Lily Webb-Crollman
• Mohammed Yaqoob · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Thomas Armstrong

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).