Registered charity · Somerset
Take ART Limited
- 6 trustees
- Income £547k (2025)
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
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Somerset
- Website
- www.takeart.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Take ART Limited
- Registered
- 1988
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£547k£585k
- 2024£484k£514k
- 2023£557k£555k
Earlier years
- 2022£485k£514k
- 2021£465k£364k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 58%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND PARTICUARLY IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET BY THE PROMOTION PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, BALLET, DANCE, MUSIC, SINGING PLAY WRITING LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.
Grants received
18 grants · £1,228,064 total360Giving 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
- Youth Music · £521,300 (5 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £284,167 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £220,375 (6 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £163,377
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £17,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- David Drake since 2023
- Helen Reid since 2026
- Lindsay Higgins since 2024
- Luca Silvestrini since 2022
- Segun Lee-French since 2021
- Steve Joel since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Helen Reid since 2026
- Luca Silvestrini since 2022
- Segun Lee-French since 2021
- Steve Joel since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- David Drake since 2023
- Lindsay Higgins since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 298671
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9TH DECEMBER 1987 AND AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 20 JANUARY 2005.
- Companies House
- Company number 02203943 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01460249450 · info@takeart.org
- 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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