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Blackfriars Arts Centre Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £756k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Lincolnshire
Website
www.blackfriarsartscentre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blackfriars Arts Centre Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£756k£734k
  • 2024£625k£569k
  • 2023£548k£437k
Earlier years
  • 2022£378k£320k
  • 2021£286k£189k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ACQUIRE PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN THE DOMINICAN FRIARY IN SPAIN LANE, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE AS A CULTURAL CENTRE AND TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, AND MUSIC, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Grants received

2 grants · £140,000 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 · £130,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £130,0002022-10-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002018-10-25
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

5.8y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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 11

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 10Hospitality 2Agriculture 1

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.

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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£756k 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.

4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 13.4 in 2021

12 from 3 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
228391
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 SEPTEMBER 1961 AS AMENDED ON 28 JUNE 1983, 29 JULY 2003 AND 23 MAY 2006
Companies House
Company number 00702834 · Active
Contact on the register
01205363108 · finance@blackfriarsartscentre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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