MOVEMA

Registered charity 1196951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance and promote, for the public benefit, the performing arts generally and, in particular, dance.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. TO ADVANCE THE ARTS THROUGH THE CREATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DANCE OR OTHER ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE PERFORMING ARTS, PARTICULARLY THE ART OF DANCE3. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £12,047 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £91,154 to £79,107. The trustees note that the free reserves of £6,028 are below the stated policy target of £62,500, and identify the loss of significant funding as the main risk to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 6 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07031968 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “Funders & Commissioners Arts Council England” (source page)

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.

• ARIWA, Jessica Chioma — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• MISTRY, Hiten, Dr — director, appointed 24/07/2025on trustee list
• HOULSTON, Margaret Mary — director, appointed 24/07/2025on trustee list
• KURIA, Milkah — director, appointed 23/11/2023on trustee list
• BOSOBOE, Melissa — director, appointed 23/11/2023not on trustee list
• SIMS, Maxine Emma — director, appointed 18/03/2022on trustee list
• DARLING, Fiona — director, appointed 18/03/2022on trustee list
• SHASTRI, Archana — director, appointed 18/03/2022on trustee list
• SHELDON, Tara — director, appointed 18/03/2022on trustee list
• CAFFREY, Penelope Clare Zarah — secretary, appointed 28/09/2009

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Archana Shastri
• Fiona Darling
• Hiten Mistry
• Jessica Chioma Ariwa
• Margaret Mary Houlston
• Maxine Sims
• Milkah Kuria
• Tara Sheldon

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAKE A MOVE.

• MAKE A MOVE income £55k
• MOTIONHOUSE income £1.2m
• COMBINATION DANCE COMPANY income £55k
• PODSMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £43k
• DANCERS' CAREER DEVELOPMENT income £708k
• ACTIVATE PERFORMING ARTS income £642k

Side by side with its peers

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