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Registered charity · Liverpool

The Black-E

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £287k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Liverpool City
Website
www.theblack-e.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Black-E
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£287k£334k
  • 2024£638k£621k
  • 2023£339k£328k
Earlier years
  • 2022£281k£341k
  • 2021£308k£292k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 73%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN AND BY MEANS OF ALL THE ARTS INCLUDING PERFORMING ARTS, VISUAL ARTS APPLIED ARTS AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN THE ARTS AND BY IMPROBING STANDARDS OF EXECUTION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM)

Grants received

9 grants · £485,384 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

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,6002024-07-29
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £194,6912022-10-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £112,0242021-12-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £5,0002020-07-03
  • Steve Morgan Foundation £9002020-04-29
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.

8 trustees on the board

10.4y median 2y
average tenure
58y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 13Education 2Other services 2

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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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£287k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
501859
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/06/1972INCORPORATED 30/12/1977AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03/10/2012 as amended on 07 Dec 2018
Companies House
Company number 01056472 · Active
Contact on the register
01517095109 · staff@theblack-e.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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