GORSE HILL STUDIOS CREATIVE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1172118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gorse Hill Studios (GHS) is an independently-run youth arts charity which provides free/low cost, high quality, accessible and responsive creative services to young people between the ages of 8 and 25 who present with a wide range of issues, from mental health to those struggling or facing exclusion from mainstream education.

Objects

4. THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE INVOLVEMENT, PARTICIPATION AND ACCESS TO THE ARTS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN GREATER MANCHESTER AND PARTICULARLY GORSE HILL WARD AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £3,129 for the year ended 30 June 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Total reserves stood at £472,719, with free unrestricted reserves of £349,202, which the trustees consider above their target of four months' core operating expenditure. The trustees confirm that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gorse Hill Studios Creative Community (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Walsh
• David Lobban
• Glynis Sarah Williams
• JENNIFER RIDING
• LEE MORGAN
• Lydia Anthony
• Michelle Udogu
• SIMONE MARY FRANCES SPRAY
• Thomas Cole

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Salford City · Trafford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GORSE HILL BAPTIST CHURCH.

• GORSE HILL BAPTIST CHURCH income £281k
• GORSEINON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £1.3m
• GORSE COVERT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £259k
• GOLDEN HILL SPORTS LIMITED income £242k
• ROSE HILL JUNIOR YOUTH CLUB income £153k
• GUST Independent School Ltd income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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