Diorama Arts Centre

Registered charity 283452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIORAMA ARTS, DIORAMA ARTS CENTRE LIMITED, Old Diorama Arts Centre

Advance the arts and culture especially those activities which seek to make the arts relevant to the community and thereby advance citizenship and community development.

Objects

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically only for the public benefit to advance the arts and culture especially those activities which seek to make the arts relevant to the community and thereby advance citizenship and community development for the benefit of the general public.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 30 September 2025 was £1,087,334, resulting in a net income of £5,382. The charity operates a self-sustaining model with no core grant funding, relying primarily on studio hire income which has plateaued while costs rise. Unrestricted reserves stood at £585,332 at the year-end, with the trustees confirming adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01585918 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Daniel Pitt — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KINGSHOTT-KPIAYE, Ophelia — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• CROMPTON-HOWES, Sarah — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• OGUNTOYINBO, Lisa — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• JONES, Tim Patrick — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• CHOUHAN, Mitaben Dolatsing — director, appointed 24/04/2023not on trustee list
• LITTLEWOOD, Jodie Jane — director, appointed 24/04/2023not on trustee list
• ALI, Nasim, Councillor — director, appointed 24/04/2023not on trustee list
• BENNETT, Annette Barbara — director, appointed 24/04/2023on trustee list
• THORPE, Adam Victor John — director, appointed 24/04/2023on trustee list
• HOGG, Alpha Georgia — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• HEWITT, Jonathan Phillip — director, appointed 25/09/2017on trustee list
• BURNETT, Edward John Lawry — director, appointed 25/04/2017on trustee list
• ROSS, Mark — secretary, appointed 23/07/2008

Official officers record.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Phillip Hewittchair
• Adam Thorpe
• Alpha Georgia Hogg
• Annette Bennett
• Jodie Eastwood
• Lisa Oguntoyinbo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Milli-Rose Rubin
• Mita Chouhan
• Nasim Ali OBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Ophelia Kingshott-Kpiaye
• Sarah Crompton-Howes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tim Jones

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEW DIORAMA.

• NEW DIORAMA income £1.4m
• ARTS FOR ALL income £198k
• ACTIVATE PERFORMING ARTS income £642k
• BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR ARTS THERAPIES income £489k
• SEATON DELAVAL ARTS CENTRE income £32k
• DARTFORD ARTS CENTRE income £645k

Side by side with its peers

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