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Registered charity · Isle of Wight

Steve Ross Foundation for the Arts

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £506k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Isle Of Wight
Website
www.quayarts.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Steve Ross Foundation for the Arts
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£506k£535k
  • 2024£537k£531k
  • 2023£368k£438k
Earlier years
  • 2022£342k£357k
  • 2021£375k£316k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 30%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ARTISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND THE SURROUNDING LOCALITY BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELDS OF ART CRAFT MUSIC AND DRAMA.

Grants received

4 grants · £342,300 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 · £300,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £34,300
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £8,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £8,0002025-05-07
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £150,0002022-10-13
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £150,0002022-10-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £34,3002010-01-19
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.

7 trustees on the board

4.1y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7Education/training 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 7Retail and trade 4Professional services 2

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£506k 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.

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

10 from 10 in 2024
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
272007
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 AUG 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 SEP 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAR 1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 JUL 1994AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 05 SEP 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30 DEC 2021
Companies House
Company number 01274280 · Active
Contact on the register
07803155400 · accounts@quayarts.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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