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Cockpit Arts

Registered charity 1029643 Registered since 1993

Operates: Throughout London

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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.

13 trustees on the board

4.1y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 13Arts and leisure 4Manufacturing 3

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.
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.0 in 2020

9 from 12 in 2020
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cockpitstudios.org
Emailinfo@cockpitstudios.org
Phone020 7419 1959
AddressCOCKPIT ARTS, COCKPIT YARD, NORTHINGTON STREET, LONDON, WC1N 2NP

Finances

£1,310,055 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£904,686£838,282
2022£1,904,444£1,634,972
2023£2,648,938£1,186,599
2024£2,319,222£1,253,705
2025£1,310,055£1,394,864

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULARLY BY PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR APPLIED ARTISTS TO BE TRAINED INCLUDING WHERE POSSIBLE PERSONS DISADVANTAGED BY SOCIAL ECONOMIC OR PHYSICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND BY THE HOLDING OF PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS OF THE WORK OF SUCH ARTISTS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/03/1993NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10/12/2009 as amended on 03 Apr 2019 as amended on 16 Sep 2021 as amended on 22 Apr 2022 as amended on 22 Apr 2022

Trustees (13)

13trustees
62median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Cockpit Arts · 02801969 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 19/03/1993

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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