COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN ART & DESIGN

Registered charity 1174589 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHEAD

CHEAD provides a voice for and on behalf of higher education art and design in the UK advancing knowledge and understanding in the sector and promoting the sector?s interests to others. We carry out research, brief members, facilitate networking opportunities and specialist internal networks supporting art and design research leaders, Subject Associations, and HE gallery leaders.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ART AND DESIGN WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS.

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

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

Registered contact address: Dacorum, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £230,348, resulting in a net profit of £15,838. The trustees confirm that reserves are maintained at a healthy level, well above the stated policy target of approximately £90,000 to £98,000. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Freelands Foundation — “FF Logo 90.jpg 4.3 KB Freelands Foundation champions art education.” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor David McGraviechair
• Abid Qayum
• Dr Daniel Robert Allen
• Dr Jacqueline Butler
• Dr Rebecca Goodwin
• Dr Roderick Adams
• Dr Sian Vaughan
• Jenny Clare Holt
• Professor Catherine Dormor PhD
• Professor Paul Lionel Springer
• Roger Bateman
• Shelley Ann McNulty

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD.

• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m
• CHARITY EVALUATION WORKING GROUP (CHEW) income £28k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF TAXATION income £12.1m
• EDHEC CHARITABLE TRUST income £260k
• THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS income £10.6m
• THE CHEV GATESHEAD LTD income £122k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.