ARTBOX LONDON

Registered charity 1172529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Artbox London works with People with Learning Disabilities and Autism (PwLDA) in Islington and the surrounding boroughs. We provide a varied programme of activities that provide opportunities for PwLDA to meet socially and explore art. Our main activities are workshops, open-access studio sessions, exhibitions and trips to art galleries and museums.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO ENGAGE IN CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC PURSUITS; AND(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a year-end surplus of £52,993, bringing total cash reserves to £166,646. This reserve level is described as representing between 3 and 6 months of ongoing running costs, which aligns with the charity's stated policy of holding 25-50% of annual budgeted expenditure in reserve. Total income increased to £325,527 from £239,538 in the previous year, while total expenditure rose to £272,534.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Artbox London (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helena Jane Watmuffchair
• Alice Elizabeth Kerr Bridle
• Francesca Brook
• Georgina Michelle Herety
• Lara Christina Geary
• SEAN GALVIN LLB
• Safia Akhtar

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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