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Arts Charities That specialise in Visual arts

Discover 1,571 Arts charities that specialise in visual arts. Use the search below to filter within these results.

1,571
Charities
£11,057,005,118
Total Income
£406,418
Avg Income
92.2%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Oriel Davies Gallery

Arts, Heritage

Oriel Davies Gallery is dedicated to providing the local community and wider audiences with access to the best modern and contemporary visual art from Wales and the wider world. Through our exhibitions and education programmes, projects and activities, we are committed to encouraging enjoyment, understanding, learning and participation in the visual arts.

Latest Income: £1,232,776
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Limited

Arts, Education

To advance the education in the United Kingdom in modern and traditional crafts and similar skills by the making of one or more grants, scholarships and prizes to individuals training in such crafts or skills.

Latest Income: £1,231,410
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Avenues Youth Project

Arts, Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education

The Avenues Youth Project provides out of school hours activities for children and young people aged 11 -25.We provide a range of informal educational opportunities including music, arts, crafts, dance, drama, discussion, radio etc. designed to improve the emotional, social and educational welfare of the young people who attend the project.

Latest Income: £1,188,680
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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The Radlett Centre Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Heritage

Offer opportunities for a broad range of people to promote their art through monthly exhibitions in the Apthorp Gallery and Art Caf+®+-«.Provide facilities for amateur and professional; artists to develop in the theatre.Involve young people in the arts through Saturday and school holiday activities.

Latest Income: £1,166,396
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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West Horsley Place Trust

Arts, Heritage

To preserve and maintain the house known as West Horsley Place in Surrey, together with its ancillary buildings and grounds as a place of historic and architectural interest, setting its history in a wider local and national context through a variety of teaching and learning methods. To encourage and promote the performing and visual arts.

Latest Income: £1,153,935
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Core Arts

Arts, Health

Relieving persons suffering from mental illness by the encouragement of participation in creative activities, particularly, but not exclusively, painting, photography, printing, music and creative writing.

Latest Income: £1,081,412
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Mostyn Gallery Limited

Arts, Heritage

to educate the public in visual arts, and to assist in public appreciation of such arts by the establishment of the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno, North Wales. Mostyn exists to open dialogue on contemporary art exhibitions, learning and engagement for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Latest Income: £1,054,295
Areas of Operation: Conwy
Status: Registered
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The Gregynog Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Facilities

Listed Historic House (Grade II*) & Gardens (Grade I) with SSSI, Nature Reserve & art collection accessible by the public, supporting Welsh culture, arts & music. Venue for events, concerts, festivals, art exhibitions and filming & photography. Self-catering accommodation, in-house short courses, Cafe and shop. Archive and library for research. Small grant-giving fund for music-related activities.

Latest Income: £1,050,206
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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Ben Uri Gallery And Museum Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Heritage, Religion

Ben Uri is a global research led academic institution. It is unique in the UK Museum sector being digitally led supporting its physical presence. Its principal focus is recording the Jewish, the Refugee and the wide Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. Benuri.org plays an important educational role in social integration. It tours its collection and exhibitions widely.

Latest Income: £1,036,561
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Chisenhale Gallery

Arts, Heritage

Chisenhale Gallery supports artists to pursue new directions and to produce their most ambitious work to date. We enable audiences to experience this process of commissioning and producing art, and to learn from it through critical reflection, discussion and participation. Chisenhale Gallery is a key organisation for artist-led education activities for the local community.

Latest Income: £999,221
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Brunswick Organic Nurseries LTD

Arts, Beneficiary group, Childcare, Leisure

Brunswick offers purposeful work and training to people with learning difficulties. They have the chance to work in horticulture, cooking and crafts, and are supported to produce goods which are sold on site.

Latest Income: £984,123
Areas of Operation: City Of York
Status: Registered
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Ls14 Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Leisure

Seacroft Pantry and CafeChildren and youth work including sports, clubs, groups and school holiday provision/activitiesPlaybox activities, Community Events/GalasArts & Crafts Groups, Mental Health and wellbeing supportArt TherapySignposting

Latest Income: £968,478
Areas of Operation: Leeds City
Status: Registered
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The Ropetackle Centre Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Leisure, Research

Promoting arts for the public benefit, promotion and advancement of education and the cultivation and improvement of public education in drama, mime, opera, singing, music, dance, painting and sculpture, cinema, literature and other arts.

Latest Income: £954,246
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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Creative Land Trust

Arts

Purchasing and leasing property, to promote arts, crafts and craftsmanship for the public benefit, in particular, but not exclusively, by providing or facilitating access to affordable workspace for the production of arts and crafts to those in need.

Latest Income: £949,864
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Woking Museum And Arts And Crafts Centre

Arts, Heritage

To provide a heritage and visual arts service for the people of Woking and the wider region.

Latest Income: £947,631
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Compton Verney Fund

Arts, Heritage

The preservation of Compton Verney (Compton Verney House Trust) and maintaining and supporting, for the benefit of the publice, the museum, gallery and education centre at Compton Verney

Latest Income: £929,299
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Backlit

Arts, Heritage

The objects of the charity are to advance education in the fields of visual, creative and applied arts by the establishment and maintenance of an art gallery and in particular the provision of studies and galleries where art may be practiced, created and exhibited and public exhibitions of art for the benefit of the public.

Latest Income: £908,620
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Triangle Arts Trust

Arts

Triangle Arts Trust is an international network of artists and arts organisations that promotes exchange of ideas and innovation within the contemporary visual arts. Through artist-led workshops, residencies, exhibitions and outreach events, the network generates peer-to-peer learning, professional development for artists and the dissemination of emerging international art practices.

Latest Income: £903,812
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Newbury And District Agricultural Society

Arts, Economic and community development, Facilities, Leisure

To promote advance and improve for the public benefit agriculture, horticulture, forestry and rural crafts and skills in all their branches and forms and to encourage interest, skill and industry in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, rural crafts and skills and all trades, crafts, businesses, and professions connected therewith.

Latest Income: £900,202
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Plough Arts Centre Limited

Arts, Charitable activities, Leisure

To promote, maintain, improve, encourage and provide public education in the arts including the artsof drama, music, singing, dance, painting, sculpture, literature, cinematography and handicrafts.To provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for the recreation and leisure time occupation ofthe public with particular regard to Torrington and its surrounding district.

Latest Income: £886,956
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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Light House Media Centre

Arts, Charitable activities, Heritage

To advance the education of the public in all aspects of arts including but without limiting the foregoing, the arts of photography, film, television, animation, drama, music, opera & dance. To promote the arts by the establishment and maintenance of an art gallery, screening and showcasing of film and film related activities and the provision of technical production facilities.

Latest Income: £884,568
Areas of Operation: Wolverhampton
Status: Registered
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Wysing Arts Charity

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education

Wysing Arts Centre is a visual arts organisation that develops new ways to support artists, enabling art and ideas to reach a wide range of people in unexpected ways. We develop educational programmes for artistic experimentation, enquiry and production, supporting innovative art to be created and experienced by new audiences, including specialist programmes for young people and schools.

Latest Income: £862,516
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The Strettons Mayfair Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Childcare, Facilities, Health, Leisure, Social care, Social welfare

A community and healthy living centre providing services in arts & crafts, befriending, complementary therapies, creche, day care, health & exercise, IT & educational classes, leisure activities, information & advice on services for older people, community transport, support advice & health groups, restaurant, volunteering opportunities, walking for health schemes and youth activities.

Latest Income: £856,577
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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The Creative Art House

Arts, Society

The Art House exists to ensure that artists with and without disabilities have equal access to facilities and opportunities in the visual arts and crafts.

Latest Income: £853,835
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The New English Ballet Theatre

Arts, Economic and community development, Education

An innovative performance company created to showcase the wealth of young ballet, visual art, muic and choreographic talent in the UK by providing employment and professional development opportunities.The company will explore the collaboration between dance, music and visual art to foster a pioneering, cross-discipline style of ballet performance.

Latest Income: £833,651
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many visual-arts arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 1,571 registered visual-arts arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the visual-arts arts charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of visual-arts arts charities?

Visual-arts arts charities reported a combined annual income of £11.1bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for visual-arts arts charities?

Across all visual-arts arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 92.2%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of visual-arts arts charities?

Visual-arts arts charities have an average annual income of £406k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.