ARCADEA CIO

Registered charity 1198416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We work to create equality of opportunity in arts and culture for disabled people in the North East of England. We do this by supporting and promoting the work of disabled artists, by enabling and facilitating disabled people to access all aspects of the arts, by assisting cultural venues to become inclusive and by presenting a programme of arts and cultural activity.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS HAVING OR ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE PHYSICAL, SENSORY OR LEARNING DISABILITIES, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THROUGH THE PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, VISUAL AND CRAFT ART FORMS.

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 achieved a net surplus of £15,948 for the year, with total income of £333,650 and total expenditure of £317,702. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £72,826, which is below the stated policy target of five months of expenditure. The trustees note that plans are in place to build reserves and consider the immediate future secure.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Peter Galvinchair
• Ben Dixon
• PAULINE HEATH BA ACTING

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).