ORGANICARTS

Registered charity 1146209 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working with disadvantaged adults facing a variety and often multiple challenges in their life through community garden work, educational & creative activities with natural materials, cooking, themed walks, personal and transferable skillsProviding educational visits for any educational or community group, Farm Creativity Walks, public workshops and open days. Exhibitions for emerging artists

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THE ARTS, FARMING, RURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £22,657 have fallen below the trustees' stated policy target of £30,000, representing less than three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £312 for the year, with total income of £72,950 against total expenditure of £73,262. Per the trustees' report, the organization is actively working on income generation to boost reserves back up to the target level.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — OrganicARTS (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Duff
• Louise Jane Doris Jones
• Lucilla Imogen McGovern
• Sarah Elizabeth Vincent

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HANDCRAFTED PROJECTS.

• HANDCRAFTED PROJECTS income £3.1m
• HASTINGS THRIVES income £17k
• PARTICIPATE PROJECTS income £627k
• PLANNING OFFICERS SOCIETY income £89k
• THE ORCHARD TRUST income £5.4m
• HORTICARE income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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