SHAPE LONDON

Registered charity 279184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHAPE LIMITED

- To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular by educational plays production and encouragement of the Arts including the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music- Provision for facilities for recreation to disabled or aged persons- To promote the relief of people with disability- Works throughout London and rest of UK

Objects

(a) To promote and advance the education of the public and the advancement of arts, culture and heritage, in particular by the production of materials, commissions and programmes for the encouragement, engagement and leadership of disabled people in the creative industries and arts, culture and heritage including (but not limited to) the visual and performing arts, literature, media, the graphic arts, the digital arts, sculpture and design, and for the removal of barriers for disabled people generally in arts, culture and heritage. (b) To advance the health of disabled people by the provision of services and facilities which promote their well-being.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Shape London reported a net incoming resource of £9,824 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's net outgoing resource of £107,827. Total income decreased to £715,283 from £874,150, while total expenditure fell more sharply to £705,459 from £981,977. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £163,000, which the trustees consider equivalent to three months of key operating costs, within their stated policy target of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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

• Tony Heatonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caitlin Amber Garner McHugh
• Emma Marie Ruth Bowman
• James Hodgson
• Jennifer Elizabeth Clarke
• Jon Tibbits-Smyth
• Marian Dorthea Casey
• Michelle Duxbury
• Owen Kimm
• Philip O'Shaughnessy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Wymant
• Robert Davies

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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