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Registered charity · Manchester

The Arts Emergency Service

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £818k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Throughout London, Manchester City, Oldham, Wigan and more
Website
www.arts-emergency.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Arts Emergency Service
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£818k£973k
  • 2024£865k£844k
  • 2023£790k£732k
Earlier years
  • 2022£571k£621k
  • 2021£524k£417k
Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND TO ENCOURAGE, MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION, TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WISH TO STUDY THROUGH A NETWORK OF SUPPORT, INTRODUCTION TO MENTORING SCHEMES AND TO ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS WHO WISH TO STUDY AN ARTS DEGREE IN ALL ASPECTS BY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RAISING FUNDS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE PREPARING FOR ENTERING UPON OR ENGAGED IN AN ARTS DEGREE AND TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS.

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 10Education 2Other services 2

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£818k 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.

3.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.3 in 2021

20 from 12 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
1152377
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 MAR 2024
Companies House
Company number 07655709 · Active
Contact on the register
02076831077 · info@arts-emergency.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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