TURF PROJECTS

Registered charity 1160527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TURF ARE A NON-PROFIT ARTIST-RUN PROJECT LOCATED IN CROYDON. WE SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTS & CURATORS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A HIGH QUALITY AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME OF FREE EXHIBITIONS, TALKS & EVENTS.RUN BY A GROUP OF ARTISTS, TURF IS PART OF A GROWING ARTISTIC COMMUNITY THAT AIM TO PROVIDE WORKSPACE, EXHIBITION & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS & THE CROYDON COMMUNITY.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:-(A)CREATING HIGH QUALITY EXHIBITIONS AND ARTS EVENTS FOR CROYDON THAT ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC;(B)CONTRIBUTING TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS IN THE AREA BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL CROYDON RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN ARTS ACTIVITIES; AND(C)SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTS WHO ARE IN CHARITABLE NEED SUCH AS YOUNG ARTISTS STARTING OUT IN LIFE OR ARTISTS THAT ARE DEMONSTRABLY POOR BY CREATING EXHIBITION AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM.

Area of benefit: CROYDON

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

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Registered contact address: Croydon, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £27,549 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £172,420 to £144,871. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £99,493 exceed the stated policy target of £70,000, which represents three months of operational costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees maintain a going concern basis, citing stable National Portfolio Organisation funding secured until April 2028.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2022 (received 30/01/2023, 33 days after the 28/12/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Grace Crannischair
• Diana Phiri-Whitty
• Dr Munachiso Nwokolo
• Emily Marsh

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £436k
• ARTIS COMMUNITY/CYMUNED LTD income £633k
• RHONDDA ARTS FESTIVAL TREORCHY (RAFT) income £79k
• CORFU ARTS FOUNDATION income £29k
• SPACE ART income £35k
• BEAFORD ARTS income £212k

Side by side with its peers

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