APPLES AND SNAKES

Registered charity 294030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Apples & Snakes champions poets and poetry, amplifies voices and stretches the idea of what poetry can be. This is achieved through organising participatory workshops in schools, libraries, community centres, prisons and other venues and through the production of performance poetry and live literature events throughout England and Wales.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING AN APPRECATION OF ART AND MUSIC WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO POETRY, IN PARTICULAR BY MAKING SUCH ART AND MUSIC MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY RAISING ARTISTIC STANDARDS THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OF THE WORK OF ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, UNKNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO POETS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINIONS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £287,914, which is above the charity's stated policy target of £135,000. The charity reported a net income of £110,746 for the year, driven by a significant increase in restricted income following a merger with Poet in the City.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01994850 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Apples and Snakes (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• DUNDAS, Lucy Rose — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• GOODINGS, Carol Lenore — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• COLE, Charlotte Melissa — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• BHATTY, Shahrukh — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• BARNES-KEMP, Prudence Anne — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• KOWALCZYK, Shayna Monique — director, appointed 07/03/2024on trustee list
• FENLON, Yolanda Marie — director, appointed 07/03/2024on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Harry Dominic, Dr — director, appointed 23/02/2023on trustee list
• ADU, Nana Yaa Ohenewaa — director, appointed 23/02/2023on trustee list
• LORD, Michael — director, appointed 30/09/2021not on trustee list
• SALEH, Amerah Mukhtar — director, appointed 08/10/2020on trustee list
• MEAD, Lisa — secretary, appointed 01/12/2018

Official officers record.

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amerah Saleh
• Carol Lenore Goodings
• Charlotte Melissa Cole
• Dr Harry Dominic Whitehead
• Lucy Rose Dundas
• Michael Lord · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nana Yaa Ohenewaa Adu
• Prudence Anne Barnes-Kemp
• Shahrukh Bhatty
• Shayna Kowalczyk
• Yolanda Fenlon

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTON PLAY PROJECTS AND LEISURE EVENTS ( A. P. P. L. .E ).

• ACTON PLAY PROJECTS AND LEISURE EVENTS ( A. P. P. L. .E ) income £185k
• POETRY LONDON LTD income £130k
• ST GABRIEL'S AREA PARTNERSHIP ENABLING PLAY AND LEARNING FOR EVERYONE LTD income £561k
• THE JOSEPHINE HART POETRY FOUNDATION income £326k
• LITTLE APPLES OF BRAMLEY income £314k
• THE APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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