NEW ART STUDIO

Registered charity 1192463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The New Art Studio is a weekly art therapy community for refugees and asylum seekers which takes place in north London. Experienced, state registered Art Psychotherapists work with members from all over London to make art in a safe and encouraging environment, to alleviate stresses due to traumas. Occasional exhibitions connect with the public and give members a sense of achievement.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE EFFECTS OF TRAUMA BY THE PROVISION OF ART THERAPY PROGRAMMES, A RELATED SUPPORT NETWORK, DELIVERING CREATIVE ART-BASED ACTIVITIES/EXPERIENCES AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES AS A WAY OF RAISING AWARENESS OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £12,480 at the end of the financial year, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of holding reserves equivalent to two months of operation. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £6,254 and has no debts, though it notes that funding is the main ongoing issue for the Studio.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

• Eve Bobbie Hamlyn Lingwood
• Katharine Cecilia Bullock
• Katharine Edwards
• Oluwafunmibi Ogunlesi
• Sarah Siobhan O'Connell

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ART REFUGE.

• ART REFUGE income £137k
• HARTLEPOOL ARTS STUDIO LIMITED income £71k
• ARTS THERAPIES FOR CHILDREN income £335k
• THE NEW ART EXCHANGE LTD income £1.6m
• STUDIO THEATRE income £67k
• BOW ARTS TRUST income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

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