UPSTART PROJECTS

Registered charity 1157864 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOICE

Upstart Projects supports young people to find their voice in the arts and gain the skills and experience to grow as arts and media practitioners. We aim to offer arts experiences which enable personal and social change. We work closely with the Arts Award programme, run by Trinity College London, and provide a stepping stone for young people interested in arts leadership or a creative career.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO TAKE PART IN AND LEAD ACTIVITIES IN THE ARTS, MEDIA AND CULTURE AND WHICH DEVELOPS THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN AND BENEFIT SOCIETY AS CREATIVE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £18,019 at 31 March 2025, which is above the stated policy target of three months of core running costs (£17,278). The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounting records or compliance with regulations.

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.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bethan Rowena Troakes
• Dinesh Thanigasalam
• Holly Howe
• Nigel Jonathan Hilditch
• PHOEBE MOSHA HILL
• Thomas Matthew Edwards

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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

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• ARTS FOR LIFE PROJECT (UK) income £275k
• PIONEER PROJECTS (CELEBRATORY ARTS) LIMITED income £386k
• PROJECT ART WORKS income £2.3m
• S1: ARTSPACE/PROJECTS income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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