CULTURE WARRINGTON

Registered charity 1151203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WARRINGTON CULTURAL TRUST

To advance education of and promote arts, culture, heritage and science through maintaining a museum, art gallery and concert hall.to promote community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of amateur sport

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF, AND PROMOTE THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A MUSEUM, ART GALLERY AND CONCERT HALL;2. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF AMATEUR SPORT;3.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED TO PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES.FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PEOPLE OF WARRINGTON.?

Area of benefit: WARRINGTON

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £492,005 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,138,167. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains strong reserves and cash levels of £3,230,715, supported by increased management fees from Warrington Borough Council and decreased energy prices.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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

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 — Culture Warrington Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Duckworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bronte Appleby
• Christian Persoglio
• Claire Lloyd-Fitzgerald
• DAVID SIMONS
• Dr Sophie Norton
• Lindsey Margaret Harrison
• Paul Parry

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

Operates in: Warrington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARRINGTON TOWN IN THE COMMUNITY LTD.

• WARRINGTON TOWN IN THE COMMUNITY LTD income £36k
• BRADFORD CULTURE COMPANY LIMITED income £26.8m
• SHALLAL income £147k
• TOURING EXHIBITIONS GROUP income £239k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY WIMBLEDON income £37k
• WORCESTERSHIRE HERITAGE, ART AND MUSEUMS income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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