ARTSWORK LIMITED

Registered charity 800143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARTSPLAN, ARTSWORK, ENYAN, UPSTART

The objects of the charity are to promote, maintain, improve and advance public education, appreciation and understanding of Youth Arts. The charitable company continues to explore new ways of improving provision for young people in creative activities.

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Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.7m
Registered
1988
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £990,444, with designated funds of £298,814, resulting in total net assets of £1,973,302. The trustees report that the charity maintains healthy reserves and has built up unrestricted funds of £691,630, which are ring-fenced to cover at least 12 months of core running costs. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months core running costs and closure costs (held: £990k)
“Of this Trustees have ring fenced funds to cover at least 12 months core running costs and closure costs, not specifically met by programme grants, as well as make provision for future commitments.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Fiander ETL. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Artswork Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.7m
Reserves (reported)
£692k
Employees
23

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Kent · Portsmouth City · Slough · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.9m£1.7m
31/03/2024£1.9m£1.6m
31/03/2023£2.2m£2.6m
31/03/2022£2.4m£2.5m
31/03/2021£1.9m£1.8m

Common questions

Is ARTSWORK LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £990,444, with designated funds of £298,814, resulting in total net assets of £1,973,302. The trustees report that the charity maintains healthy reserves and has built up unrestricted funds of £691,630, which are ring-fenced to cover at least 12 months of core running costs. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Fiander ETL.

Who funds ARTSWORK LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ARTSWORK LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST, IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£274k
THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£142k
IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATIONFY2021£127k
THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£127k
IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATIONFY2024£-17kGrants paid by the Youth Endowment Fund to interventions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund12/02/2026£300kPlayland
UK government24/01/2024£12kInvestment funds
UK government16/03/2023£38kInvestment funds
UK government20/10/2022£1.4mNational Portfolio Organisations
UK government20/10/2022£1.4mNational Portfolio Organisations
UK government06/05/2022£5kInvestment funds
UK government22/03/2022£94kBridge Expansion
The National Lottery Community Fund18/01/2006£4kArts and learning workshops - The Hot Room
The National Lottery Community Fund16/11/2005£922kHUB4
The National Lottery Community Fund01/04/2005£30kNINE
The National Lottery Heritage Fund13/10/1999£150k"Opening the Doors - Increasing Young Peoples Access to Museums"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ARTSWORK LIMITED£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD FY2025£175k—0unclear—no doubt
CONTAINS ART CIO FY2025£330kUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
ART GENE LIMITED FY2025£404k—0above—no doubt
THE CHILDRENS ART SCHOOL FY2025£185k—0above—no doubt
SPIKE ISLAND ARTSPACE LIMITED FY2025£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.