Registered charity · London
Core Arts
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.corearts.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Core Arts
- Registered
- 1995
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.2m
- 2024£1.1m£1.1m
- 2023£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.1m£1.0m
- 2021£1.0m£863k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 46%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS AND/OR THOSE AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PARTICIPATION IN CREATIVE ACTIVITIES, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ARTS, MUSIC, MULTIMEDIA, SPORTS AND HORTICULTURE AND TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISABILITIES BY ARRANGING WORK FOR THEM.
Grants received
31 grants · £1,249,769 total360Giving 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
- Prudence Trust · £230,000 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £219,230 (9 grants)
- Comic Relief · £176,635 (2 grants)
- City Bridge Trust · £172,983 (3 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £117,871 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Vivienne Havell Chair since 2019
- Benjamin Keir Gooch since 2026
- Claire Elise Glasgow since 2026
- Dr Mark Salter
- Ellen Faith Willetts since 2021
- Shaun Adams since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Vivienne Havell Chair since 2019
- Shaun Adams since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Benjamin Keir Gooch since 2026
- Claire Elise Glasgow since 2026
- Dr Mark Salter
- Ellen Faith Willetts since 2021
- Shaun Adams since 2016
Portfolio (1)
- Vivienne Havell Chair since 2019
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.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1043588
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 NOVEMBER 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 JUN 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 02985939 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02085109990 · mail@corearts.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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