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Registered charity · London

Apples and Snakes

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £772k (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 And Wales
Website
www.applesandsnakes.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Apples and Snakes
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£772k£661k
  • 2024£624k£763k
  • 2023£654k£641k
Earlier years
  • 2022£629k£637k
  • 2021£639k£430k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING AN APPRECATION OF ART AND MUSIC WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO POETRY, IN PARTICULAR BY MAKING SUCH ART AND MUSIC MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY RAISING ARTISTIC STANDARDS THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OF THE WORK OF ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, UNKNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO POETS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINIONS.

Grants received

15 grants · £1,818,428 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £926,744 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £463,372
  • John Lyon's Charity · £252,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £90,400 (2 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £48,000

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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

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
5.2y
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 11Education/training 11Disability 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.

Arts and leisure 14Other services 1

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£772k 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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.1 in 2021

7 from 7 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
294030
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 OCTOBER 1985 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 26 FEBRUARY 2009 AS AMENDED ON 19 MAR 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 FEB 2021
Companies House
Company number 01994850 · Active
Contact on the register
07496 393793 · info@applesandsnakes.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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