ART MONTHLY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1173171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the CIO are to improve the appreciation and understanding of contemporary art through a direct critical engagement with new and challenging art and the context in which it is made and viewed.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PUBLICATION OF AN ARTS JOURNAL AND THE PROMOTION OF EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS.

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's unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £43,072, primarily due to accounting adjustments for income received in advance. The trustees consider the results satisfactory and remain satisfied that the charity is financially viable, citing confirmed Arts Council England funding through March 2027. The charity's policy is to hold three months of operating expenses in reserve, with plans to build reserves up to that level over 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• GILL HEDLEY
• Martin Fryer
• Oscar Andres Calcedo Murillo
• PETER WILLIAM HENRY LYDIATE
• TERESA SHEILA ROSE GLEADOWE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPIKE ISLAND ARTSPACE LIMITED.

• SPIKE ISLAND ARTSPACE LIMITED income £1.5m
• NEW CURATORS income £711k
• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• SUMMERTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY income £870k
• NEW CONTEMPORARIES (1988) LIMITED income £366k
• ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH VISUAL ART LIMITED income £2.0m

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