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Registered charity (CIO) · Kent

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  • 8 trustees
  • Income £509k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Kent, Medway
Website
www.ideastest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£509k£510k
  • 2024£421k£467k
  • 2023£544k£365k
Earlier years
  • 2022£494k£310k
  • 2021£0£0

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS BY: A) ENCOURAGING AND DEVELOPING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THESE ARTFORMS BY THE PRESENTATION OF ARTWORKS, COMMISSIONS, CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS IN THE DISTRICTS OF SWALE AND MEDWAY PRIMARILY, AS WELL AS IN KENT AND THE SOUTH EAST REGION, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. B) SUPPORTING COMMUNITY WELLBEING AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN SWALE, MEDWAY AND KENT THROUGH COMMISSIONING OF COLLABORATIVE ARTS PROJECTS ADDRESSING ISSUES OF PLACE, COMMUNITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION. C) PROMOTING, SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY OF SWALE, MEDWAY AND KENT INCLUDING THE AMATEUR AND VOLUNTARY ARTS SECTORS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF COLLABORATIVE ARTS PRACTICE REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.

Grants received

4 grants · £353,537 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

Most recent

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
2
trustees past 6 years
8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

3
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 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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 4Other services 2Professional services 2

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£509k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

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

6 from 5 in 2023
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.
7%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1190098
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 24 Jun 2020
Contact on the register
07713865955 · contact@ideastest.co.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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