TEES VALLEY ARTS

Registered charity 515369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEVELAND ARTS

Tees Valley Arts is a charity that uses the arts to create social change. We believe that arts & culture create societies and offer challenges to the status quo. Communities have a right to tell their stories which reflect their past and will shape their future. We will act as a catalyst for all communities to become cultural producers, galvanising creative action and championing positive change.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, DEVELOP, PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ACCESS TO, AND ENGAGEMENT IN, ARTS AND CULTURE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN THE TEES VALLEY, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH FEWEST OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN, AND MAKE PROGRESS THROUGH, SUCH ENGAGEMENT.

Area of benefit: REDCAR AND CLEVELAND, MIDDLESBROUGH, HARTLEPOOL AND STOCKTON-ON-TEES

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 the charity entered the new financial year in a secure position with £29,382 in free reserves and £120,000 of funding already secured for the following year. This financial position is against a predicted annual operating cost of £132,000 for the new financial year. The trustees believe that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tees Valley Arts (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carmen Ellen Thompson
• Edward John Thompson
• Errol Alexander Theunissen
• Kevin Kenneth Howard
• Margaret Walters · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Darlington · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• ARTIS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• BUNGAY ARTS AND THEATRE SOCIETY income £347k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• TEES VALLEY YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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