Registered charity · Stoke-on-Trent
Upswing Aerial Limited
- 5 trustees
- Income £588k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.upswing.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Upswing Aerial Limited
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£588k£569k
- 2024£622k£653k
- 2023£363k£359k
Earlier years
- 2022£425k£376k
- 2021£264k£204k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA
Grants received
9 grants · £519,908 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
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £240,993 (2 grants)
- City Bridge Trust · £96,000
- John Lyon's Charity · £69,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £60,000 (4 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £53,915
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Adesomo Okojie since 2021
- Caroline Rokeya Sylvia Nicola Meaby since 2023
- Dr Mercy Harriet Nabirye since 2022
- James David Larner since 2025
- Lucy Anne Morgan since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Lucy Anne Morgan since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Adesomo Okojie since 2021
- Caroline Rokeya Sylvia Nicola Meaby since 2023
- Lucy Anne Morgan since 2020
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Mercy Harriet Nabirye since 2022
- James David Larner since 2025
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1149245
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 MAY 2010 as amended on 18 Aug 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 07248211 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0207 6134843 · info@upswing.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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