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Registered charity · Hampshire

A Space : Growing Creative Communities

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £591k (2025)

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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Hampshire, Southampton City
Website
www.aspacearts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
A Space: Growing Creative Communities LTD
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£591k£645k
  • 2024£500k£635k
  • 2023£357k£679k
Earlier years
  • 2022£478k£554k
  • 2021£540k£389k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, BY DEVELOPING PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF VISUAL ARTS AND BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO, AND THE QUALITY OF, THE VISUAL ARTS, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SOUTHAMPTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

Grants received

8 grants · £2,598,440 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 Heritage Fund · £2,410,600 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £137,840 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £50,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002025-06-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £236,7002023-09-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,9002022-10-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £36,0002022-06-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £101,8402021-12-13
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.

6 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6Economic/community Development/employment 6

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 7Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£591k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 58.9 in 2021

16 from 10 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
1136495
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 AUGUST 2009 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED WITH COMPANIES HOUSE 2 JUNE 2010
Companies House
Company number 07007198 · Active
Contact on the register
07824326005 · enquiries@aspacearts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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