GRAND PLAN

Registered charity 1193497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We're a charity awarding £1,000 grants to creative people from BAME (black, asian and minority ethnic) groups based in the UK who want to make a new cultural project happen.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ART IN ALL FORMS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE WORK AND CAREERS OF ARTISTS FROM BLACK, ASIAN AND MINORITY ETHNIC (BAME) BACKGROUNDS.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £59,676 and total expenditure of £57,665 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a net surplus. Unrestricted cash funds stood at £36,641 at year-end, which the trustees note slightly exceeds their reserves policy target of approximately £20,000. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no material matters identified.

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 3 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

• Thomas Paul Pym Rosenthalchair
• April Brown
• Lucy Musgrave

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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