HEART OF GLASS ST HELENS LIMITED

Registered charity 1179366 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEART OF GLASS

Heart of Glass is a St Helens, Merseyside-based collaborative and social arts organisation. We believe that art has the power to bring us together and create change, for the people of our community, and the place we call home. By working with artists and communities we support each other, and learn from each other, on creative journeys of enquiry and exploration.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR COLLABORATIVE ARTS, CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS, PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, POETRY, CRAFT, MEDIA ARTS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ARTS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY AND CALIBRE BY:-A)ENCOURAGING AND DEVELOPING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THESE ARTFORMS BY THE PRESENTATION OF ARTWORKS, COMMISSIONS, CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS IN THE BOROUGH OF ST HELENS PRIMARILY, AND IN THE NORTH WEST REGION, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY;B)SUPPORTING COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AND CAPACITY-BUILDING IN ST HELENS THROUGH COMMISSIONING OF COLLABORATIVE ARTS PROJECTS ADDRESSING ISSUES OF PLACE, COMMUNITY AND EQUALITY AND INCLUSION; ANDC)PROMOTING, SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY OF ST HELENS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF COLLABORATIVE ARTS PRACTICE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.

Area of benefit: IN THE BOROUGH OF ST HELENS PRIMARILY, AND IN THE NORTH WEST REGION, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

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 ended the year with an overall deficit of £16,176, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £264,943. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are below the stated policy target of £178,212, which represents 16 weeks of core operational costs. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09812411

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.

• GENTLES, Tracy Georgina — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• HILL, William Oliver — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• KWAN, Annie Jael — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• TSANG, Gina — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• UZOMAH-UWALAKA, Augusta Chinonso — director, appointed 20/03/2023on trustee list
• SAMUELS, Julia Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/02/2022on trustee list
• JONES, Jesse — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• CARRUTHERS, Julia Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• PENNINGTON, Gordon John — director, appointed 06/10/2015on trustee list
• FOX, Patrick — secretary, appointed 18/11/2022

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tracy Georgina Gentleschair
• Annie Kwan
• Augusta Chinonso Uzomah-Uwalaka
• GIna Tsang
• GORDON JOHN PENNINGTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jesse Jones
• Julia Elizabeth Carruthers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Elizabeth Samuels
• William Oliver Hill

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH MUSIC TRUST.

• NORTH MUSIC TRUST income £17.0m
• NORTH WEST MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT LIMITED income £104k
• ONE FROM THE HEART income £141k
• GLASS DOOR HOMELESS CHARITY income £2.2m
• CHRYSALIS CENTRE FOR CHANGE income £362k
• THE GLASS-HOUSE COMMUNITY LED DESIGN income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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