DEVELOPING ARTISTS

Registered charity 1175594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Developing Artists works to support the arts and artists from and in post-conflict nations and deprived communities, raising awareness of key advocacy issues at a local and international level.

Objects

ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ALL FORMS OF ART AND CULTURE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY SUPPORTING EMERGING ARTISTS FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £7 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £30,000 and total expenditure of £29,993. However, the charity holds negative unrestricted reserves of £542, resulting in total net assets of £(542). The trustees confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, citing sufficient cash flows to meet liabilities for at least one year.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10195289

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEE, Patrick Chee Ning — director, appointed 10/04/2026on trustee list
• MCMINN, Maria — director, appointed 10/04/2026on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Paul Stuart — director, appointed 01/06/2025on trustee list
• MARKVO, Aleksandrina — secretary, appointed 01/09/2025

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maria McMinn
• Patrick Chee Ning Lee
• Paul Stuart Mitchell

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

Operates in: Cape Verde · Egypt · Jordan · Kenya · Throughout England And Wales · Ukraine · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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