LIVE ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1208861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEAF

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Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION THE PERFORMING ARTS IN ALL ITS ASPECTS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported total income of £778,372 and total expenditure of £12,014, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £140,771, which the trustees note exceeds their policy target of approximately £75,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding 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)

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Live Entertainment & Arts Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~140.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Rawlinsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ahmet Ahmet · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jenna Omeltschenko
• Margaret Kenney

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONTAINS ART CIO.

• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• BH LIVE income £48.1m
• WARE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £229k
• THE LIFE INTERVENTION, FRIENDSHIP AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £37k
• ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD income £99k
• CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS' LIVERY CHARITY income £318k

Side by side with its peers

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