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Registered charity 1176614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offering the opportunity to work on physical, emotional and mental wellbeing through creative arts, music and talking therapies. We promote and facilitate change for all who engage with our services. Offering a programme of mental wellbeing through prevention, recovery and sustainability for both adults and children.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT, CARE, AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL, EMOTIONAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ISSUES RELATING TO DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT CONCERNED WITH THE ALLEVIATION OF SYMPTOMS AND THE CURE OF ILLNESS ANCILLARY TO THOSE PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, AND(II) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR IMMERSIVE CREATIVE THERAPIES

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a stable financial position with unrestricted reserves of £229,951, which the trustees note is equivalent to just under 8 months of running costs. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £411,782 to £380,113. The trustees confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Wardall
• Catherine Triscott
• Colin Mattinson
• Lorraine Baker
• Matthew Hindle

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Oxfordshire · South Gloucestershire · Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INDEPENDENT ARTS.

• INDEPENDENT ARTS income £439k
• BIRMINGHAM INDUSTRIAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.4m
• THE ARTS OF CHANGE TRUST income £240k
• WORKING WELL TRUST income £2.6m
• IDEAS PLUS income £2.1m
• SPORTINSPIRED LTD 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.