INDEPENDENT ARTS
Registered charity 297474 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Through the power of creativity we create a healthier, happier, more fulfilled and connected society on the Isle of Wight. We are a pioneering creative health charity. We deliver co-created artistic programmes to support mental health, wellbeing and physical health.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £64,608 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £439,224 against expenditure of £374,616. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £76,459, of which £63,982 was designated as an emergency reserve, leaving £12,477 in general reserves. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for at least twelve months.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £12k; policy: three months anticipated expenditure)
“Where our reserves position is below the agreed level, the Finance and Resource Committee actively monitor the situation and seek to return reserves to the policy position as soon as possible.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Independent Arts (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.
- PEACE, Gary John — director, appointed 04/02/2026on trustee list
- ELLIOTT, Louise Carlene — director, appointed 04/02/2026on trustee list
- BATES, Esme Matilda — director, appointed 04/02/2026on trustee list
- BEAN, Jonathan Simon — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
- OGILVY-MORRIS, Monica — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
- RICE, Leah — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
- BARNETSON, Graham — director, appointed 28/02/2023on trustee list
- HEANY, Jacqueline — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
- MARRIOT, Brian James — director, appointed 30/07/2020not on trustee list
- JONES, Jodie — director, appointed 19/09/2018on trustee list
- HOUSTON, Rosanna Louise — secretary, appointed 10/04/2025
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
- Jacqueline Heanychair
- Brian James Marriott
- Esme Bates
- Gary John Peace
- Graham Barnetson · trustee of 2 other charities
- Jodie Jones
- Jonathan Bean
- Leah Rice · trustee of 1 other charity
- Louise Elliott
- Monica Ogilvy-Morris
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Isle Of Wight
Income and spending
Common questions
Is INDEPENDENT ARTS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £64,608 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £439,224 against expenditure of £374,616. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £76,459, of which £63,982 was designated as an emergency reserve, leaving £12,477 in general reserves. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for at least twelve months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds INDEPENDENT ARTS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name INDEPENDENT ARTS as a grant recipient include JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE REED FOUNDATION, THE MCCARTHY & STONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE VALENTINE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE WIGHT AID FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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