LICHFIELD ARTS

Registered charity 1156217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities are aimed at ensuring Lichfield and the surrounding district has a thriving arts community wherein all residents and visitors have the opportunity to experience and be inspired by a diverse range of arts. This in turn aims to enhance personal wellbeing, education, social cohesion and also boost the local economy.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS IN LICHFIELD DISTRICT THROUGH THE REGULAR PROVISION OF LIVE MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS EVENTS AND THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IN AN OUTREACH PROGRAMME WHICH ENCOURAGES LOCAL PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ARTS BY LEARNING NEW SKILLS AND PERFORMING AT COMMUNITY EVENTS

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £3,742 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £36,612. This reserve level is reported to be above the trustees' target threshold of approximately 12 months of running costs. The filing confirms no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW KENNETH JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Hope
• Claire Pinder-Smith
• Peter Harvey
• William John PURKIS

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LICHFIELD GARRICK THEATRE.

• LICHFIELD GARRICK THEATRE income £4.4m
• LEICESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £2.4m
• MUNICIPAL CHARITIES income £133k
• LICHFIELD FOODBANK income £178k
• WOTTON ARTS PROJECT income £102k
• MICHAEL LOWE'S AND ASSOCIATED CHARITIES income £108k

Side by side with its peers

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