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Registered charity · London

The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Belgium, France and more
Website
www.theartssociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.9m£2.4m
  • 2023£1.7m£2.2m
  • 2022£1.5m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.6m£1.8m
  • 2020£1.8m£1.7m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

NADFAS’S OBJECTS ARE:A. THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CULTIVATION, APPRECIATION AND STUDY OF THE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS;B. THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; ANDC. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS.

Grants received

1 grant · £1,737,701 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 Community Fund · £1,737,701

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £1,737,7012011-01-11
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.

10 trustees on the board

1.7y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
16.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Education/training 9Disability 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 11Business services 5Finance 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 20.9 in 2020

15 from 13 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1089743
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 OCTOBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 19 MAY 2004, 18 MAY 2005 AND 9 MAY 2007.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/05/2015AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12/06/2015 as amended on 28 Mar 2021
Companies House
Company number 04307984 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7038 7590 · enquiries@theartssociety.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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