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Registered charity (CIO) · Birmingham

Grand Union Arts CIO

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (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
Throughout England
Website
grand-union.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£344k
  • 2024£403k£419k
  • 2023£373k£427k
Earlier years
  • 2022£642k£271k
  • 2021£354k£225k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 68%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS AND THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING:(A) AN ARTS CENTRE AND AN EXHIBITIONS AND ARTS EVENTS PROGRAMME TO ENABLE THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS, EXPLORE AND ENJOY HIGH QUALITY ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES;(B) ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE WIDER PUBLIC AND TO BUILD CAPACITY IN THE ARTS SECTOR.

Grants received

6 grants · £649,515 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £285,132 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £250,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £109,703 (2 grants)
  • Birmingham City Council · £4,680

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,6242026-01-15
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £250,0002024-12-09
  • Birmingham City Council £4,6802023-11-06
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £99,8032021-03-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £266,5082020-12-15
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.1y median 4.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 10General Charitable Purposes 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.

Business services 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.3m 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

6 from 6 in 2022
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
1184473
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 18 Jul 2019
Contact on the register
01216439079 · info@grand-union.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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