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Registered charity · Torrington

The Plough Arts Centre Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £887k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Devon
Website
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Plough Arts Centre Limited
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£887k£728k
  • 2024£606k£669k
  • 2023£471k£598k
Earlier years
  • 2022£477k£582k
  • 2021£533k£370k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 18%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MUSIC, SINGING, DANCE, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, LITERATURE, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND HANDICRAFTS.(B) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO GREAT TORRINGTON AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED.

Grants received

19 grants · £830,677 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £485,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £127,195 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £120,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £73,000
  • Devon Community Foundation · £25,482 (6 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £25,0002025-09-09
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £245,0002024-02-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9002024-02-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £80,0002023-07-26
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £120,0002022-10-13
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.

7 trustees on the board

2.1y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 8Hospitality 7Education 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£887k 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 9.5 in 2021

14 from 14 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1093715
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 MARCH 2002 as amended on 26 Oct 2020
Companies House
Company number 04404875 · Active
Contact on the register
01805622552 · mail@theploughartscentre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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