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The Arts Foundation
- 9 trustees
- Income £80k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Saadi SoudavarChair · since 2022
- Andrew Stuart CombenTrustee · since 2020
- Edward John HodgkinsonTrustee · since 2026
- Frith Zelda KerrTrustee · since 2016
- John BoothTrustee · since 2018
- Kuei-Chuan Dennis ChangTrustee · since 2020
- Kulwinder Kaur ThiaraiTrustee · since 2020
- Lisa Monika ParrinderTrustee · since 2018
- Ssegawa-Ssekintu KiwanukaTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.artsfoundation.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£80k£212k
- 2024£109k£189k
- 2023£352k£195k
Earlier years
- 2022£48k£133k
- 2021£204k£138k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO SUPPORT ARTISTIC PROJECTS OF AN INNOVATIVE OR EXPERIMENTAL NATURE OR BY YOUNG PEOPLE
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- Saadi Soudavar Chair since 2022
- Andrew Stuart Comben since 2020
- Edward John Hodgkinson since 2026
- Frith Zelda Kerr since 2016
- John Booth since 2018
- Kuei-Chuan Dennis Chang since 2020
- Kulwinder Kaur Thiarai since 2020
- Lisa Monika Parrinder since 2018
- Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Stuart Comben since 2020
- Frith Zelda Kerr since 2016
- John Booth since 2018
- Kuei-Chuan Dennis Chang since 2020
- Kulwinder Kaur Thiarai since 2020
- Lisa Monika Parrinder since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Saadi Soudavar Chair since 2022
- Andrew Stuart Comben since 2020
- Edward John Hodgkinson since 2026
- Frith Zelda Kerr since 2016
- Kuei-Chuan Dennis Chang since 2020
- Kulwinder Kaur Thiarai since 2020
- Lisa Monika Parrinder since 2018
Portfolio (2)
- John Booth since 2018
- Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1000001
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 16 JUL 1990AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 04 MAY 1995AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 05 DEC 2020AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 13 OCT 2004 as amended on 09 Sept 2008 as amended on 19 Feb 2026
- Contact on the register
- 07969029656 · info@artsfoundation.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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