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.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts
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.
Corporate structure
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)
Cost of raising funds
£127k
Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Jonathan Phillip Hewittchair
- Adam Thorpe
- Alpha Georgia Hogg
- Annette Bennett
- Edward John Lawry Burnett
- 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
Common questions
Is Diorama Arts Centre financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited.
Who funds Diorama Arts Centre?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Diorama Arts Centre as a grant recipient include THE LINBURY TRUST, JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST, THE TEDWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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