SEVERN ARTS

Registered charity 1180335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Severn Arts provides music tuition, performance opportunities, instrument hire and other music educationservices to young people in Worcestershire and intends to develop adult music education. Severn Arts provides an arts development service for the wider public. Severn Arts operates in an inclusive manner and wishes to extend access so as many people as possible can benefit from the arts

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a combined surplus of £290,136 for the year, with net assets increasing to £1.59 million. The trustees confirm that free reserves stood at £882,100, which includes designated funds for potential closure costs and future project expenditure. The organization remains financially stable despite noting that a key arts contract with Worcestershire County Council will not be renewed after September 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richards Sandy Audit Services Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11033978

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Louisa Davies — Chief Executive Officer (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.

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.

• CHANDRA-PAISLEY, Anusha Ciara — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• TUCKER, Rachel Clare — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• HUTTON, Sophie Louise — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• MACPHERSON, Robert John Felix — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• YATES, Valerie Jane — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Neil — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• WELLS, Georgia Rose — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• SHIELS, Charles Martin — director, appointed 18/12/2020not on trustee list
• HERBERT, Daniel — director, appointed 12/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 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 (60% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlie Shielschair
• Anusha Ciara Chandra-Paisley
• Dr Daniel Herbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georgia Rose Wells
• Neil Phillips
• Rachel Clare Tucker
• Robert John Felix Macpherson
• Sophie Louise Hutton
• Valerie Jane Yates

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

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 CORNWALL MUSIC SERVICE TRUST.

• CORNWALL MUSIC SERVICE TRUST income £1.8m
• AUDIOACTIVE income £1.4m
• Gwasanaeth Cerdd Ysgolion Gwynedd a Môn income £1.0m
• WOTTON ARTS PROJECT income £102k
• WORCESTER THEATRES CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £2.6m
• SEVERN RIVERS TRUST income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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