Registered charity · Swanage
Diverse City
- 4 trustees
- Income £840k (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
- Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.diversecity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Diverse City
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£840k£936k
- 2024£940k£1.1m
- 2023£1.4m£1.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£960k
- 2021£1.5m£704k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 67%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (OBJECTS) ARE:(A) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THOSE WITH PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS, LEARNING DISABILITIES AND OTHERS EXPERIENCING BARRIERS TO LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSION, BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(I) THE PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS (INCLUDING BY PROMOTING THE WIDENING OF PARTICIPATION IN (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PERFORMING ARTS);(II) THE PROVISION OF WORKSHOPS, TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND COACHING IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PERFORMING ARTS;(III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(B) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) AMONG INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR SOCIAL POSITION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF PERFORMING ARTS, INCLUDING WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN PERFORMING ARTS.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 3, "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF DISABILITY, POOR EDUCATIONAL SKILLS OR ATTAINMENT, RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, ECONOMIC STATUS, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AGE OR LEGAL STATUS.
Grants received
9 grants · £1,396,334 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 · £536,476
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £455,383 (4 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £364,500 (2 grants)
- Youth Music · £32,775
- Dorset Community Foundation · £7,200
Most recent
- 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.
4 trustees on the board
- Ben Johnsen since 2022
- Joshua Ward since 2023
- Naomi Baldwin Webb since 2022
- Sophie Cottle since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Ben Johnsen since 2022
- Joshua Ward since 2023
- Naomi Baldwin Webb since 2022
- Sophie Cottle since 2023
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.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1176855
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21 NOV 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 DEC 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 JAN 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 06004929 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07952619763 · info@diversecity.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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