PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 900637 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAT

Promote professional arts events. Plus outreach programme. Plus local community events.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND PARTICULARLY IN SOUTH PETHERTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET BY THE PROMOTION, PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, BALLET, DANCE, MUSIC, SINGING, PLAYWRITING, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE SOUTH PETHERTON

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £2,572 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £48,606. The trustees consider it prudent to hold reserves in excess of the stated policy target of approximately £18,000 due to high energy costs and major repair works required at the venue. The charity relies on securing adequate funding to ensure its survival, though the trustees are satisfied it has sufficient funds for the next 12 months.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/04/2024, 70 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02438900 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “With the benefit of some funding from Arts Council England and the Grass Roots Music fund we have been able to completely redevelop our webs…” (source page)
• Grass Roots Music fund — “With the benefit of some funding from Arts Council England and the Grass Roots Music fund we have been able to completely redevelop our webs…” (source page)

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.

• WILES, Mike — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• MURRAY, Crawford Gordon — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• HAWKINS, Adam Dennington — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• CONNON, Mick — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• WILES, Vivian — director, appointed 01/10/2023not on trustee list
• EAST, Janet Sara, Dr — director, appointed 01/05/2021on trustee list
• KEATING, Angela — director, appointed 02/04/2020on trustee list
• BOLES, Derek William John — director, appointed 15/10/2018on trustee list
• DAVIES, Thomas Geraint — director, appointed 11/10/2010not on trustee list
• WHEELER, Peter Roydon — director, appointed 05/01/1999on trustee list
• DAVIES, Thomas Geraint — secretary, appointed 15/10/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mick Connonchair
• Adam Dennington Hawkins
• Angela Keating
• Christopher Latham
• Crawford Gordon Murray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Derek Boles
• Dr Janet Sara East
• Julian James Brooks
• Mike Wiles
• Tom Davies
• Vivien Wiles

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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