CHELMSFORD CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1180431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE IN CHELMSFORD

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £53,790 in unrestricted free reserves against a policy target of three months of staff salary costs. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah BARFOOTchair
• ADAM WOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arthur Taylor
• Caroline PORTER
• Garima Bansal
• Gurpreet Kaur Tumber
• Isobel Arden
• Jaiden Anthony Buck-Auld
• STEPHANIE MITCHENER

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONTAINS ART CIO.

• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• THE CSJ FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY income £302k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m
• THE CAMPDEN CHARITIES TRUSTEE income £4.4m
• CHELMSFORD CANOE CLUB income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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