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Artis Foundation

Artis Foundation is a registered charity (number 1174635) based in London, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by Mark Friend since 2017. Latest income £1.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.artisfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£970k
  • 2024£823k£823k
  • 2023£652k£644k
Earlier years
  • 2022£544k£552k
  • 2021£580k£457k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECT(S) OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: 3.1.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS (WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON THE PERFORMING ARTS), INCLUDING BY DEVELOPING THE CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS OF CHILDREN VIA THE MEDIUM OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY WORKING WITH SCHOOLS TO INTEGRATE THE ARTS THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM; AND3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Grants received

11 grants · £399,717 total

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Health and social care 4Education 3Business services 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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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£1.0m 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.7 in 2021

6 from 3 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
1174635
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Sep 2017
Contact on the register
02073249880 · dingdong@artisfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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