THE WESTMINSTER DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY

Registered charity 1140639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Arts Society Westminster, WESTMINSTERDFAS

The promotion & advancement of the education of the public in the cultivation, appreciation & study of the decorative and fine arts by an annual programme of accredited lecturers: Study days: Visits to places of historical & artistic interest: Giving of aid to Young Arts: The time donated by volunteers in the preservation of the artistic heritage of the UK for the benefit of the public.

Objects

A. THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CULTIVATION, APPRECIATION AND STUDY OF THE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS; B. THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND C. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document is limited to the Independent Examiner's Report and does not contain the financial statements, trustees' report, or notes to the accounts. Consequently, no information regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or financial health is explicitly stated in the text.

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 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Cecilia Emily Wells
• Frances Pryer
• Lesley Diane Thrift
• Susan Lyon

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES.

• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES income £1.6m
• THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH WEST NORFOLK income £37k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY DORSET COUNTY income £15k
• MOOR PARK DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY income £55k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY CAMBRIDGE income £36k
• PALACE DRUM CLINIC income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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