DREAMARTS

Registered charity 1162525 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

From 1 April 2017 DreamArts CIO is the charitable structure for the work of DreamArts Trust (registration 1070614) which was established in 1999. The mission of DreamArts is to transform young lives through arts and therapy, delivering award-winning projects where they express themselves on their own terms, explore their challenges and build their strengths so they can realise their potential.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WESTMINSTER AND OTHER GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £8,291 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income of £435,759 against expenditure of £427,468. The Board of Trustees considers the charity financially sound, noting that reserves of £64,316 are satisfactory given the lack of fixed liabilities beyond core staff. The charity continues to live within its means and has secured extended funding from key partners for the coming years.

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
• 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anis Suterwala
• Catherine Drake Wilkes
• David Mumeni
• Gem Pinkney
• Nigel Jones
• Racha Mohsen Afiouni

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFAN ARTS.

• AFAN ARTS income £52k
• DARLINGTONOS (CIO) income £287k
• ART MONTHLY FOUNDATION income £202k
• ARTIS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• PORTRAITS OF RECOVERY income £191k
• GOALS 4 GIRLS CIO income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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