CREATIVE CULTURE TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1161184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Creative Culture Trust promotes access to culture, creative workspace, engagement and participation in arts through educational and recreational activities which develop the skills and confidence of individuals providing a platform for them to grow artistically.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS AND TO PROMOTE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING ARTS CHARITIES,NON-PROFIT, COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS WITH ACCESS TO PROPERTY IN OTHERWISE VACANT UNITS ON A NON-COMMERCIAL BASIS WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD THEBASELINE OCCUPANCY COSTS WITH THE OBJECT OF ENCOURAGING AND PROVIDING FREE ACCESS TO THE ARTS FOR ALL.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEEINVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008]

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £2,152 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £29,551 to £27,399. Unrestricted funds remained stable at £1,934, while restricted funds decreased from £27,617 to £25,465. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with accounting standards or 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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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 05/04/2022 (received 21/03/2023, 44 days after the 05/02/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEXANDER JAMES LANGDON BREEZE
• CHLOE ROSE FOWLER
• Cheuk Lap Lau
• DYLAN LINDSAY
• MARCUS DAVID BENSON

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH.

• NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH income £394k
• Creative Oundle income £114k
• CREATIVITY CULTURE AND EDUCATION income £145k
• THE CREATIVE ART HOUSE income £854k
• INTER CULTURAL CENTRE income £72k
• THE CREATIVITY CENTRE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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