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Registered charity · Essex

Metal Culture Limited

Metal Culture Limited is a registered charity (number 1104635) based in Essex, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £1.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Metal (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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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, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Liverpool City, Southend-on-sea, Peterborough City
Website
www.metalculture.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Metal Culture Limited
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£971k
  • 2024£971k£826k
  • 2023£909k£941k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants 67%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND PERFORMING ARTS AND TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC INTEREST IN NEW ARTISTIC ENDEAVOURS BY SUPPORTING THE WORK AND ASPIRATIONS OF NEW ARTISTS. 2. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL RELIEF AND OTHERWISE THE DEVELOPMENT AMONG ARTISTS AND STUDENT ARTISTS OF THEIR PERFORMANCE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERFORMING ARTS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY THE PROVISION OF STUDIO SPACE AND SHORT TERM RESIDENCY.

Grants received

13 grants · £1,055,199 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £575,781
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £250,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £187,400 (5 grants)
  • Essex Community Foundation · £22,018 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

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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

2.6y median 1.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 10Education/training 10Accommodation/housing 9Environment/conservation/heritage 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 21Education 5Health and social care 4

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£1.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 in 2021

15 from 16 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.
71%
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
1104635
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 APRIL 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 2 JUNE 2004.
Companies House
Company number 04738521 · Active
Contact on the register
01702470700 · chalkwell@metalculture.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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