ART EXPLORA UK

Registered charity 1202489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Art Explora shares arts and culture with everyone - locally, nationally, and internationally - inspiring new encounters between arts and audiences. We work in partnership with artists, arts organisations, and communities, exploring all art forms, to create transformative cultural experiences. Our imaginative, contemporary approach encourages new forms of public participation and engagement.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE ARTS AND CULTURE BY:3.1 INCREASING ACCESS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT;3.2 PROMOTING THE POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE ARTS; 3.3 SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO SHARE ART AND CULTURE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE WAY; AND3.4 SUPPORTING CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS, ARTISTS AND THE CREATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted free reserves of £547,347, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of retaining a minimum of £250,000 to meet commitments for the next twelve months. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The independent auditor issued an unqualified opinion, confirming the financial statements give a true and fair view.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ward Williams Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2023) to £80,001 - £100,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frederic Joussetchair
• Ksenia Zemtsova
• Marc Spiegler
• Sally Bacon OBE
• THE HONOURABLE ANNA ALLEMANDI

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

Operates in: France · Italy · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTA COMMUNITY THEATRE LTD..

• ACTA COMMUNITY THEATRE LTD. income £351k
• SPAN ARTS income £313k
• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• WE ARE UNLIMITED ARTS income £2.4m
• TOURING EXHIBITIONS GROUP income £239k
• Cultura Trust income £267k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.