THAMESMEAD ARTS AND CULTURE OFFICE

Registered charity 1196316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TACO

Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office is a cultural space for research, production, and exchange located in Thamesmead, SE London. It engages with its local context and centers the work and role of the arts in supporting a dialogue between artists, audiences, community, and place. Its arts activities include commissioned projects and events with artists and communities.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:(A) SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING THEIR ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND WORK; AND(B) PROVIDING A GALLERY SPACE FOR EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS, A BOOKSHOP AND CREATIVE PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £50,448 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a net deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, total income increased to £155,470 from £99,295, while total expenditure decreased to £105,022 from £136,425. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £102,649 and restricted funds of £29,783, resulting in total net assets of £132,432.

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10995454

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.

• MACKLE, Ciaran — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• ASUNRAMU, Zainab — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• FRANCKE, Andrea — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• CORROON, Avril — director, appointed 16/06/2024on trustee list
• PATEL, Rima Anilkumar Apabhai — director, appointed 08/07/2019on trustee list
• FORDE, Kate — director, appointed 01/04/2018not on trustee list
• JENNER, Matthew George — secretary, appointed 04/01/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Francke
• Avril Corroon
• Ciaran Mackle
• Katherine Forde
• Rima Anilkumar Apabhai Patel
• Sam Paul Taylor Mr
• Zainab Asunramu · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BROMLEY ARTS TRUST.

• BROMLEY ARTS TRUST income £179k
• THE HOUNSLOW ARTS TRUST LTD income £824k
• THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE income £3.3m
• THE ST PAUL'S ARTS TRUST income £120k
• S1: ARTSPACE/PROJECTS income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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