BISHOP'S STORTFORD MUSEUM AND ARTS CIO

Registered charity 1189853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Houses a Museum, Auditorium, Meeting Rooms, Dance Studios and cafe/bar area. The complex provides local access to the arts and facilities for a range of cultural activities including dance, theatre, education and cinema.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £25,816 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £3,494,517. The trustees report a healthy freely available cash balance of £452,416, which represents approximately four months of expenditure cover. The charity relies significantly on grant income from Bishop’s Stortford Town Council, which is secured under a Service Level Agreement until March 2028.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paula Holland — Operations Director (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~30.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 9.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deirdre Glasgow
• Dr Sarah Patricia Tatham
• Elizabeth Jane Phillips
• Graham Pettit · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Gregory · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle Brinklow
• Steven Connors
• Teresa Di Falco
• Yvonne Roger Estop

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BISHOP'S STORTFORD METHODIST CHURCH.

• BISHOP'S STORTFORD METHODIST CHURCH income £167k
• THE INCORPORATED BISHOP'S STORTFORD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION income £29.2m
• AGE CONCERN BISHOP'S STORTFORD income £212k
• THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• CORBY CUBE THEATRE TRUST income £1.4m
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m

Side by side with its peers

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