ARTIS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1174635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Mission is to transform lives through the arts by creating magical, high quality learning opportunities that help people flourish.To achieve our mission, we have 4 key strategic themes:Bringing the curriculum to life in schoolsPromoting wellbeing and tackling social issuesDiscovering and nurturing artists as educatorsAdvocating the importance of arts in learning.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net increase in funds of £53,035, resulting in total unrestricted and designated reserves of £257,913. This figure exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £187,000, which represents three to six months of operating costs. The charity holds a cash balance of £551,628 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by CT Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rebecca Boyle Suh — Chief Executive (source)
• Mark Friend — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Samantha Matthews — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London” (source page)
• Artswork — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London” (source page)
• Bagri Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London” (source page)
• City of London — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London” (source page)
• Our Common Good — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• Englefield Charitable Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• Eveson Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• Foyle Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• The Funding Network — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• London Community Response — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• The Lovington Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• The Madison Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• The Rothschild Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)
• Saja Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes Artswork Bagri Foundation City of London Our Common Goo…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Friendchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anita Masih · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Bailey
• Emma Karine Bonnin
• Jenneh Edem-Hotah
• Joanne Millard
• Judith Cavanagh
• Korede Obasaju
• Nina Alexandersen
• Toby Lloyd Crooks
• Wendy Steatham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• S1: ARTSPACE/PROJECTS income £2.8m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
• ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD income £99k
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• THE ARTANGEL TRUST income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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