WARE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 276998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WARE ARTS CENTRE

An arts centre in a heritage building with activities including the performing arts and community spaces. Conservation of a historic listed building.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS INCLUDING DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, MUSIC, DRAWING, PAINTING, GRAPHICS, PRINTMAKING, PHOTOGRAPHING, CERAMICS, SCULPTURE, CARVING AND CRAFT HANDIWORK AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLIS SHCMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £202,510, which is in excess of the Trustees' stated policy target of £75,000. The charity reported a net income of £5,751 for the 13-month period, with total income of £333,248 against total expenditure of £327,497.

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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN MICHAEL DAVIS
• JOHN WING
• Janice Irene Wing BSC · trustee of 2 other charities
• SEAN MICHAEL SHAW
• Stephen Burton
• Tara Farnworth
• Tina Goodman
• Trevor Mirams

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD.

• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• CONTAINS ART CIO income £330k
• LANDMARK ARTS CENTRE income £851k
• NORWICH ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• PEOPLE'S THEATRE ARTS GROUP LIMITED income £345k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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