THE BLACK-E

Registered charity 501859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREAT GEORGES COMMUNITY CULTURAL PROJECT LIMITED, THE BLACKIE

The activities of the Charity are the promotion of the Arts and Education through a cultural programme at the Charity's premises and elsewhere, which combines the activities of contemporary arts centre and community centre.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN AND BY MEANS OF ALL THE ARTS INCLUDING PERFORMING ARTS, VISUAL ARTS APPLIED ARTS AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN THE ARTS AND BY IMPROBING STANDARDS OF EXECUTION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM)

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £58,646 as of 5 April 2025, which is below the £60,000 target the trustees identified as necessary in the event of a major loss of funding. The charity reported a net expenditure of £46,816 for the year, noting that it faces risks related to funding availability and cost increases.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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 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
• Investment
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (80% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREA VAZ
• CRAIG ROGERS
• JANINE ROSS
• Jemima Khalli
• Miguel Doforo · trustee of 1 other charity
• PATRICK JENNINGS
• RAHMA KINGFISHER
• Wendy Patricia Harpe

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BERTIE BLACK FOUNDATION.

• THE BERTIE BLACK FOUNDATION income £150k
• Culture& Arts and Heritage income £523k
• THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTRE income £178k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BLACKHEATH income £199k
• BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION (BEO) income £1.7m
• CHISENHALE ART PLACE LIMITED income £324k

Side by side with its peers

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