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Registered charity · Nottingham

Backlit

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £909k (2025)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Nottingham City
Website
www.backlit.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Backlit LTD
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£909k£230k
  • 2024£244k£240k
  • 2023£208k£173k
Earlier years
  • 2022£251k£243k
  • 2021£265k£157k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 58%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL, CREATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ART GALLERY AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF; STUDIOS AND GALLERIES WHERE ART MAY BE PRACTICED, CREATED OR EXHIBITED AND PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS OF ART FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Grants received

11 grants · £1,076,577 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 Culture, Media & Sport · £633,417 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £152,760 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £81,400 (3 grants)
  • The Clothworkers Foundation · £50,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002024-11-11
  • The Clothworkers Foundation £50,0002024-10-17
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £480,6572024-02-07
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £76,3802022-10-13
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £76,3802022-10-13
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.

12 trustees on the board

2.2y median 0y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Education/training 12Recreation 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 11Business services 1Education 1

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£909k 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

6
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
1167258
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 MAY 2016
Companies House
Company number 08329205 · Active
Contact on the register
01158372426 · info@backlit.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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