Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 4

Accounts overdue -5
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 2

CHESTER VISUAL ARTS

Chester Visual Arts co-ordinates visual art activities, putting on programmes of local, national and international events, exhibitions and public activities. It aims to provide a permanent public visual arts gallery in the City of Chester for the benefit and education of the wider and visiting public of the North West region.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Latest accounts are overdue for filing

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
30/04/22	£65,630	£48,663	£16,967	0
30/04/21	£15,008	£45,267	£-30,259	0
30/04/20	£80,812	£43,360	£37,452	10

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.chestervisualarts.org.uk

07730007299

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Cheshire West & Chester,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£31,700	22/02/2022	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-81

DR ANNE CATHERINE PUTZ Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Manager Museums

ALISON HILARY BANNER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired Solicitor

CYNTHIA AIELLO SHORT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor

IAN RUSSELL SHORT (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor

PROFESSOR PAUL JOHNSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Professor

REV ROSEMARY JANE BROOKE Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeships: THE MELANESIAN MISSION, CHESTER CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST, TRANSFORMING LIVES TOGETHER, THE QUEEN'S SCHOOL CHESTER,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/11/2018, number: 1180619
Registered at Companies House on 05/01/2017, number: 10549768

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

15 Victoria Pathway
Chester
Cheshire
CH4 7AG

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY:1.1.1 CO-ORDINATING VISUAL ARTS ACTIVITIES;1.1.2 PUTTING ON PROGRAMMES OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC ACTIVITIES; AND1.1.3 PROVIDING AND ENABLING A PERMANENT VISUAL ARTS GALLERY FOR THE CITY OF CHESTER.THIS PROVISION MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

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