CULTURE COVENTRY

Registered charity 1152899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Transport Museum, The Old Grammar School and The Lunt Roman Fort

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,074,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total reserves of £2,320,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due, supported by confirmed funding from Coventry City Council and available unrestricted reserves of £1,221,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CULTURE COVENTRY VENTURES LIMITED Companies House 05263892
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08359113

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PARRY, Wendy — director, appointed 10/03/2023on trustee list
• AZIZ, Nor Rasidah — director, appointed 26/11/2021on trustee list
• COULON, Emmanuel Stephane — director, appointed 16/10/2015on trustee list
• MEDWELL, Roger Terrence Arthur — director, appointed 18/06/2013on trustee list
• RAILTON, Keith — director, appointed 19/03/2013on trustee list
• SHAW, Richard Andrew — director, appointed 01/03/2013on trustee list
• ELLIOTT, Joseph Warden — director, appointed 14/01/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emmanuel Stephane Coulonchair
• Dr Nor Aziz · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph Warden Elliott · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH RAILTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROGER TERRENCE ARTHUR MEDWELL
• Richard Shaw
• Wendy Parry

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED.

• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• THE COVENTRY FREEMEN'S CHARITY income £1.1m
• COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIES income £1.7m
• THE JOINT COUNCIL OF THE BRIDGE BENEFICE, COVENTRY income £316k
• OLD COVENTRIANS RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £183k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE RAILWAY TRUST income £733k

Side by side with its peers

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