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

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE SUBJECTS OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS;3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS, PROMOTION OF ACCESSIBILITY TO, AND PARTICIPATION IN, THE ARTS, PROVISION OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ASPIRING ARTISTS, PROVISION OF GRANTS;3.3 TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ARTS ACTIVITIES, DANCE AND DRAMA PROGRAMMES FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND/OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES;3.4 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ÆSOCIALLY EXCLUDEDÆ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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

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

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11033978 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

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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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Martin Shielschair
• Anusha Ciara Chandra-Paisley
• Dr Daniel Herbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georgia Rose Wells
• Neil Christopher 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 WEST OF ENGLAND MUSIC AND ARTS.

• WEST OF ENGLAND MUSIC AND ARTS income £3.4m
• WELLINGTON (SOMERSET) & DISTRICT ARTS ASSOCIATION income £67k
• SETTLE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £30k
• WARWICKSHIRE CHORISTERS income £61k
• WEST SUSSEX MUSIC TRUST income £2.1m
• CRESCENT ARTS income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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