SOMERSET ART WORKS

Registered charity 1167455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAW

We work with a wide range of arts and non-art partners, providing opportunities for artists to extend their professional practice, develop new audiences for the visual arts in Somerset and to engage communities that may have little contact with the arts.Through creative activities the arts can benefit a wide range of community needs, facilitating and promoting the value of creativity for all.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SOMERSET IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL ARTS INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER ART FORMS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO;A) PLACEMENT AND BURSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMERGING ARTISTSB) RUNNING EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND PARTICIPATORY EVENTS TO INVOLVE NEW AUDIENCES; ANDC) OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN FURTHERANCE OF THE STATED OBJECTS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted deficit of £232 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £58,544. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting four to six months of operating costs, and the current unrestricted reserves of £58,544 are below the stated policy target of four to six months of expenditure. The charity is dependent on continued funding from sources such as Arts Council England and patrons to maintain its financial state.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• 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

• Andrew Ralston
• Bridget Sterling
• Dang Hoang Phong Nguyen
• Fiona Campbell
• Freeny Yianni
• JAN OLLIS
• Liza Bessant

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACEARTS Limited.

• ACEARTS Limited income £185k
• TAKE ART LIMITED income £547k
• SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• YOUNG SOMERSET income £4.3m
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR SOMERSET income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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