Arts Richmond

Registered charity 251359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARTSRICHMOND, R U T A C, RICHMOND UPON THAMES ARTS COUNCIL

Promotion and support for the arts and libraries in the borough of Richmond upon Thames

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY FOSTERING AND PROMOTING THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC TASTE AND THE KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, AND THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LIBRARIES THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF FRIENDS AND USER GROUPS, IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES.

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES

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 Arts Richmond reported a surplus of £18,080 for the year ending March 2025, driven largely by a £9,900 donation from the David King Trust. The trustees note that while the general reserve of £11,132 is below their stated policy target of six months' core expenditure, they consider the reserves reasonable and are confident the charity remains a going concern due to ongoing local authority support and membership subscriptions.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/02/2024, 15 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Enrique Plata
• Geoff Acton
• Gillian Thorpe · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jean Wit
• Pauline Orchard
• Peter Geoffrey Cregeen
• Rachel Tranter-Needham · trustee of 2 other charities
• SIMON BARTLETT
• Susan Mary Johnston Pandit

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• LICHFIELD ARTS income £242k
• BROMSGROVE COMMUNITY ARTS income £409k
• ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS income £205k
• ROTTINGDEAN ARTS income £26k
• RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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