Registered charity · Cambridgeshire
Viva Arts and Community Group
- 12 trustees
- Income £481k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Daniel Schumann MBE DLChair
- Angela BockingTrustee · since 2013
- Anne Jeanette BevanTrustee · since 2019
- Elisabeth Helen EveryTrustee · since 2021
- Emma Clare BovingdonTrustee · since 2025
- Helen Marian HaywardTrustee · since 2019
- Kirsten MartinTrustee · since 2013
- Leigh StephensonTrustee · since 2021
- Lt Colonel James Frank WoodTrustee · since 2021
- Michael George Hawes FccaTrustee
- Richard John HobbsTrustee · since 2019
- Vivienne RobinsonTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 3 more
- Where
- Cambridgeshire
- Website
- www.viva-group.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Viva Arts and Community Group Limited
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£481k£515k
- 2023£633k£387k
- 2022£495k£566k
Earlier years
- 2021£913k£223k
- 2020£932k£134k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 43%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ARTS OF THEATRE AND DRAMA AND IN SO DOING PROVIDE THEM WITH A THOROUGH TECHNICAL GROUNDING IN THE CRAFT AND ASSOCIATED PRACTICES OF THEATRE AND THE ART OF ACTING.2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.3 THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE PARISH OF SOHAM) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE.B THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES.C THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.D SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.4 TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING, WITHOUT ANY LIMITATION, THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC..
Grants received
20 grants · £1,755,549 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
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,130,100 (5 grants)
- Power to Change Trust · £245,456 (2 grants)
- Backstage Trust · £135,000
- Cambridgeshire Community Foundation · £133,000 (6 grants)
- Youth Music · £29,850
Most recent
Board analysis for researchers
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Daniel Schumann MBE DL Chair
- Angela Bocking since 2013
- Anne Jeanette Bevan since 2019
- Elisabeth Helen Every since 2021
- Emma Clare Bovingdon since 2025
- Helen Marian Hayward since 2019
- Kirsten Martin since 2013
- Leigh Stephenson since 2021
- Lt Colonel James Frank Wood since 2021
- Michael George Hawes Fcca
- Richard John Hobbs since 2019
- Vivienne Robinson since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Angela Bocking since 2013
- Anne Jeanette Bevan since 2019
- Helen Marian Hayward since 2019
- Kirsten Martin since 2013
- Richard John Hobbs since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Daniel Schumann MBE DL Chair
- Angela Bocking since 2013
- Anne Jeanette Bevan since 2019
- Emma Clare Bovingdon since 2025
- Helen Marian Hayward since 2019
- Kirsten Martin since 2013
- Leigh Stephenson since 2021
- Lt Colonel James Frank Wood since 2021
- Richard John Hobbs since 2019
- Vivienne Robinson since 2025
Portfolio (2)
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1126012
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 DECEMBER 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06448490 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01353722060 · info@viva-group.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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