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Registered charity · Buckinghamshire

Shape London

(a) To promote and advance the education of the public and the advancement of arts, culture and heritage, in particular by the production of materials, commissions and programmes for the encouragement, engagement and leadership of disabled people in...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £715k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment and 2 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.shapearts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shape London
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£715k£705k
  • 2024£874k£982k
  • 2023£657k£644k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2021£2.1m£1.7m
Charitable objects

(a) To promote and advance the education of the public and the advancement of arts, culture and heritage, in particular by the production of materials, commissions and programmes for the encouragement, engagement and leadership of disabled people in the creative industries and arts, culture and heritage including (but not limited to) the visual and performing arts, literature, media, the graphic arts, the digital arts, sculpture and design, and for the removal of barriers for disabled people generally in arts, culture and heritage. (b) To advance the health of disabled people by the provision of services and facilities which promote their well-being.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

12 trustees on the board

5.1y median 5.5y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 12Disability 12Education/training 12

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 11Arts and leisure 5Tech and media 2

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£715k 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.9 in 2021

5 from 8 in 2021
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
279184
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 DECEMBER 1979 AND AMENDED 23 APRIL 1988, 18 AUGUST 1988 AND 20 SEPTEMBER 2006 as amended on 22 Sep 2021 as amended on 22 Sep 2021
Companies House
Company number 01468164 · Active
Contact on the register
02074247330 · info@shapearts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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