FRIENDS OF THE VALE

Registered charity 1190598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, MUSIC TECHNOLOGY, VISUAL ARTS AND CARNIVAL ARTS AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURES BY DELIVERING PROJECTS, EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS AND BY PROVIDING FUNDING ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE ARTS ACTIVITIES AT THE VALE, TAMESIDE.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, MUSIC TECHNOLOGY, VISUAL ARTS, CRAFTS, ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS, CARNIVAL ARTS, AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURES BY DELIVERINGPROJECTS, SOCIAL/CULTURAL EVENTS, VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES, AND WORKSHOPS AND BY PROVIDING FUNDING ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE ARTS AND SOCIAL/CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AT THE VALE, TAMESIDE.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tameside, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £11,533 for the year, with total income of £38,789 against expenditure of £27,256. However, the trustees note that current unrestricted reserves of £1,483 are below their stated policy target of three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure, and reserves will need to be built up over the following 12 months.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Baylisschair
• Abigail Knaggs
• Olivia Peers
• Phillip James Howley

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

Operates in: Tameside

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF THE TIVOLI.

• FRIENDS OF THE TIVOLI income £174k
• Friends of Vale School income £28k
• FRIENDS OF ST JOHN'S HIGHBURY VALE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £59k
• THE FRIENDS OF THAME HOSPITAL income £364k
• FRIEND IN DEED income £89k
• THE FRIENDS OF ROWAN ASSOCIATION income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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