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ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH VISUAL ART LIMITED

Registered charity 287894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as A C A V A · repeated filing default (register status)

The advancement of education by the encouragement of the arts through the establishment and management of community groups, centres, studios and activities for the furtherance of public benefit through the visual arts.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.0m
Latest spending
£2.2m
Registered
1984
Accounts read
FY2022

Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £189,247 for the year ended 30 September 2022, resulting in unrestricted general funds being negative £501,190. Per the trustees' report, the charity is targeting a break-even position by the end of September 2023 through licence fee increases and cost reductions, while maintaining high studio occupancy rates.

Automated summary of the FY2022 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs and employer's national insurance) during the year between: £60,000 - £69,999” — page 31
Per its FY2022 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Studio provision (62% of income)
“Studio provision 1,253,759”
Per its FY2022 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three- and six-months' expenditure (held: £-501k)
“Our reserves policy sets a minimum target of £24,000 p/a for unrestricted reserves over the next five years with a target of £120,000. It is our policy that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three- and six-months' expenditure.” — page 12
Per its FY2022 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £443k. 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 30/09/2022)

Total income
£2.0m
Total spending
£2.2m
Reserves (reported)
£612k
Employees
22

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Essex · Staffordshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025——
30/09/2024——
30/09/2023——
30/09/2022£2.0m£2.2m
30/09/2021£2.1m£2.1m

Common questions

Is ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH VISUAL ART LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2022 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £189,247 for the year ended 30 September 2022, resulting in unrestricted general funds being negative £501,190. Per the trustees' report, the charity is targeting a break-even position by the end of September 2023 through licence fee increases and cost reductions, while maintaining high studio occupancy rates. Its FY2022 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH VISUAL ART LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2022 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation22/08/2022£4kGrant to Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art
The National Lottery Heritage Fund02/08/2017£7k"Enfield Making History, Women at Work: Then and Now"
City Bridge Foundation19/07/2017£4kGrant to Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art
The National Lottery Heritage Fund18/05/2016£10k"Hadleigh Old Fire Station: 85 years of community and place"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/11/2012£11k"A Mirror for the Sea"
The National Lottery Community Fund10/08/2006£3kStudio Group

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION1£591k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION1£198k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION1£100k
THE FREELANDS FOUNDATION LIMITED1£35k
JOHN JAMES BRISTOL FOUNDATION1£30k
THE GOLSONCOTT FOUNDATION1£29k
JOSEPH LEVY FOUNDATION1£25k
THE BEAVERBROOKS CHARITABLE TRUST1£10k

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH VISUAL ART LIMITED£2.0m£60,001 - £70,000—unclear—no doubt
NEW CURATORS FY2024£711k——below—no doubt
VENTURE ARTS FY2025£703k—0above—no doubt
ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD FY2024£99k—0unclear—no doubt
CONTAINS ART CIO FY2025£330kUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
GREATER MANCHESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£7.2m——above—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.