THE CULTURAL SPRING

Registered charity 1191465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CULTURAL SPRING LTD

The Cultural Spring provides cultural, community based activities throughout the city of Sunderland and South Tyneside.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE ARTS BY RUNNING PROGRAMMES OF ARTS EVENTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND WORKSHOPS IN SUNDERLAND AND SOUTH TYNESIDE; ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS AND BY ORGANISING VISITS TO CULTURAL VENUES PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE AREA.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total unrestricted funds of £36,388 at the year end. The trustees consider the immediate future secure for the next 12 to 18 months, noting that a significant amount of funding has already been secured for the current year. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no defined benefit pension deficit.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12508237

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.

• MOIR, Alexander Phillip — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• ATKINSON, Joan — director, appointed 24/04/2024on trustee list
• MARTIN, Fiona — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• WILSON, Denise — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• DAWSON, Mark Anthony — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• TURNER, Eleanor Caroline — director, appointed 18/08/2021on trustee list
• HIGH, Ian — director, appointed 24/06/2020on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Graeme — director, appointed 18/05/2020on trustee list
• HORSMAN, Emma — secretary, appointed 08/07/2020

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graeme Thompson MBEchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Alexander Phillip Moir
• Denise Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Eleanor Caroline Turner
• Fiona Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian High
• Joan Atkinson
• Mark Anthony Dawson

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

Operates in: South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED.

• SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED income £2.7m
• SPRINGBOARD SUNDERLAND TRUST income £3.4m
• SPRING EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (SES) income £195k
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• NEWBURY SPRING FESTIVAL SOCIETY, LTD income £629k
• THE SPRING CHARITY income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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