Chester Visual Arts

Chester Visual Arts co-ordinates visual art activities, putting on programmes of local, national and international events, exhibitions and public activities. It aims to provide a permanent public visual arts gallery in the City of Chester for the benefit and education of the wider and visiting public of the North West region.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Cheshire West & Chester

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 April 2025, it had income of £20,281 and spent £14,106.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 35%, from £15,008 in the year to 30 April 2021 to £20,281 in the year to 30 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 70% of its income in the year to 30 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 April 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £19,950, awarded in 2019.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Alistair Roger TuckerChairAppointed 18 October 2024
• Dr Sarah Jane CaddickAppointed 18 October 2024
• Hannah WehbehAppointed 18 October 2024
• Juliet Rachel CookAppointed 18 October 2024
• Rowena Jane Anson FergussonAppointed 18 October 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1180619

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 November 2018

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 JAN 2017NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 MAY 2018AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 24 AUG 2018

Company number

10549768This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.chestervisualarts.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Flintshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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