UP PROJECTS

Registered charity 1170960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

UP Projects commissions contemporary art for public places. We support artists to make work that has social relevance, encourages learning, transforms places and activates the public realm.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY ART AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: (A) CURATING, COMMISSIONING AND PRODUCING CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS AND EVENTS; (B) PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND EVENTS TO FURTHER THE PUBLICÆS KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART; AND (C) PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE PART IN ARTIST LED ACTIVITY.

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 held £53,562 in free unrestricted reserves against a stated policy target of £85,000. The trustees report that the organization demonstrated financial resilience by generating 58% of its total income through earned sources in the year ended 31 March 2025.

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 policy and procedures
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• EMMA JANE UNDERHILL NEMAR
• GEORGE SAWTELL
• Jennifer Garrett
• Kaia Noni Charles
• Massoumeh Larizadeh
• Sophia Dzwig
• Thahmina Begum
• Viya Nsumbu

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• UPSTART PROJECTS income £107k
• UP - UNLOCKING POTENTIAL income £3.2m
• PROJEKT UTOPIA income £71k
• THE HANDS UP PROJECT income £150k
• UPP FOUNDATION income £118k
• PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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