PUBLIC ARTS

Registered charity 327415 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEAM

Our mission is to help people make great places to live, work and play in.Beam aims: * To create better understanding about the importance of the arts and good design; * To make stronger connections between professionals and the public; and * To celebrate the arts and good design in places and spaces as a powerful contributor to personal, economic and community wellbeing.

Objects

(1) TO ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE AND TO ENCOURAGE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE COMMISSIONING AND PUBLIC DISPLAY OF ALL FORMS OF ART IN PUBLIC PLACES, AND IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO ENTER INTO SUCH COMMISSIONS.(2) TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF ART IN PUBLIC PLACES AND THE ENVIRONMENT, OF THE ARTIST IN THE SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORKING IN PUBLIC PLACES, OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF THE VALUE OF A QUALITY ENVIRONMENT AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND SUSTAIN THIS ENVIRONMENT FOR THE FUTURE.

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £44,208, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £10,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £6,865 for the year and has no disclosed material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abbie Miladinovic
• Adele Kathryn Poppleton
• Andrew Ball
• Dr Claire Robyn Booth-Kurpnieks
• Gordon Watson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Richmond
• Professor Rina Arya
• Stuart James Stephenson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEAVERS ARTS LIMITED.

• BEAVERS ARTS LIMITED income £683k
• THE BEAM FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• ARTIS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• HODDESDON (COMMUNITY) SOCIETY OF PERFORMING ARTS LTD. income £319k
• ARTS AND CRAFTS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £40k
• BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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