ARTS FOR LIFE PROJECT (UK)

Registered charity 1182882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARTS FOR LIFE PROJECT - COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Arts for Life Project is a charity supporting young people and their families' emotional health and wellbeing through the therapeutic value of the creative arts. Our projects focus on individuals with complex hidden needs that push them to the margins of society and the community support structure around them to make impactful change in their everyday lives.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE RELIEF OF NEED OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 – 25YRS OLD, INCLUDING FAMILIES, CARERS AND THEIR SUPPORTIVE NETWORK LIVING IN GREATER LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES THROUGH USING THE INTEGRATIVE ARTS IN THERAPY AND EDUCATION.

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 · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £246,298, which the trustees consider a solid financial position. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the review.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Arts For Life Project (UK) (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PENNY ANN ERICSONchair
• EMMA ST QUINTIN MATTHEWS
• Jeffrey Rollason
• John Hooper Cadman
• Jonathan Grosskopf · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARTY-FOLKS.

• ARTY-FOLKS income £262k
• ARTIS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• ARTS 2 HEAL income £101k
• PROJECT ART WORKS income £2.3m
• TALITHA ARTS income £107k
• PIONEER PROJECTS (CELEBRATORY ARTS) LIMITED income £386k

Side by side with its peers

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