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Emergency Exit Arts

Emergency Exit Arts is a registered charity (number 1004137) based in London, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Martin Lowde since 2022. Latest income £672k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £672k (2025)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.eea.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Emergency Exit Arts
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£672k£670k
  • 2024£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£971k£935k
  • 2021£601k£538k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 22% · Government grants 26%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THE PERFORMING ARTS.

Grants received

15 grants · £645,989 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £352,800 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £120,094
  • Indigo Trust · £90,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £58,095 (6 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £128,5002024-12-04
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £25,0002024-06-12
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002019-10-25
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002018-08-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £89,4002018-06-06
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8Economic/community Development/employment 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 12Education 3Finance 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£672k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.2 in 2021

7 from 7 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
48%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1004137
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10TH MAY 1991 as amended on 30 Apr 2021
Companies House
Company number 02609490 · Active
Contact on the register
01273711203 · info@eea.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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