CREATIVE LAND TRUST

Registered charity 1182876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Purchasing and leasing property, to promote arts, crafts and craftsmanship for the public benefit, in particular, but not exclusively, by providing or facilitating access to affordable workspace for the production of arts and crafts to those in need.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ARTS, CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE WORKSPACE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ARTS AND CRAFTS TO THOSE IN NEED.

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

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

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £160,208 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £949,864 and expenditure of £789,656. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £421,372, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £240,000. The accounts state that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• 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
• Risk management
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11367824

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.

• MARTIN, Andrew James Westcott — director, appointed 03/10/2024on trustee list
• SILVER, Daniel Leon — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• BACH, Malene Oddershede — director, appointed 10/09/2020on trustee list
• CARTER, Natalie Alexandra Pauline — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list
• COOKSEY, James Richard Campbell — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list
• NOTAY, Alexandra Katherine — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Catherine Helen — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £4.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Martinchair
• Alexandra Katherine Notay
• Daniel Leon Silver
• James Richard Campbell Cooksey
• Malene Oddershede Bach
• Misa Lane von Tunzelman
• Natalie Alexandra Pauline Carter

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m
• THORPE LANGTON TOWN LAND income £30k
• FENWICK CHARITABLE TRUST income £388k
• NEW CREATIONS income £183k
• CREATIVE CULTURE TRUST CIO income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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