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Discover 6,454 Arts charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

6,454
Charities
£6,747,187,095
Total Income
£677,701
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

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

Nk Theatre Arts

Arts

Provides Weekly Workshops in Music, Dance and Drama to anyone aged 5yrs to adults. Fully inclusive regardless of any ability, disability, status or culture. Public Performances are also presented. Theatre in Education, Corporate Training, Performing Arts Venue.

Latest Income: £905,159
Areas of Operation: Various
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 Open Theatre Company Limited

Arts

The charity's aims are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education particularly through the production of plays and the encouragement of the arts.

Latest Income: £903,294
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Profound And Multiple Impairment Service

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

PAMIS works with families caring for a child or an adult with profound and multiple learning disabilities by offering practical help and advice; a training workshop programme; individual support; the opportunity to influence policy and services at local and national levels; and a library and information service.

Latest Income: £903,131
Areas of Operation: Scotland
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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Newport Playgoers' Society

Arts

Stimulate an interest in and a study of the Drama and the dramatic art and to support all that is best in the theatre. To prevent modern plays of great merit from falling into oblivion. To produce new plays. To stimulate the art of acting and the technical skills associated with dramatic productions. To support charities and other associations formed for charitable and educational purposes.

Latest Income: £894,190
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Kenton Theatre (henley-On-Thames) Management Society LTD

Arts

The Charity maintains, upgrades and expands the structure, fittings and equipment of the the Kenton Theatre in Henley-on-Thames.The Charity manages the Theatre on a not-for-profit basis. It promotes theatrical, musical and other cultural events and rents the Theatre to other groups promoting such events.

Latest Income: £887,505
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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British Dental Association Trust Fund

Arts, Heritage

The charity runs a museum and a library, as well as undertaking a range of projects in order to support dentists within Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Latest Income: £883,470
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Trans World Radio Limited

Arts

International Christian broadcasting

Latest Income: £869,960
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Music In The Round Limited

Arts, Housing

Music in the Round is the leading national producer of chamber music, with a year-round programme of hundreds of events for people of all ages. Since 1984 we have been bringing people and music closer together through our friendly and informative style of 'in the round' performances. We present concerts and the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival each year at our home venue, the Crucible Playhouse.

Latest Income: £868,532
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Limited

Arts, Leisure

We stage 90 - 100 publicly-accessible events a year of music, dance and drama in our main auditorium. We also run 23 courses in Indian Music, Dance, Languages and Yoga as well as exhibitions. Further details available if required.

Latest Income: £867,572
Areas of Operation: Hammersmith And Fulham
Status: Registered
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St David's Diocesan Council For Social Responsibility

Arts, Beneficiary group, Religion

THE OBJECTS OF THE COUNCIL ARE GENERAL MORAL WELFARE WORK WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF ST DAVIDS.Aims:* Social Responsibility as an integral part of the Church's mission;* To work with children, young people and their families, in their communities through the Plant Dewi project;* offering resources to practitioners through conferences, publications and Diocesan and Plant Dewi websites;

Latest Income: £864,540
Areas of Operation: Carmarthenshire
Status: Registered
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Philadelphia Church Of God

Arts, Religion

The charity seeks to advance the Christian religion by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the Bible mainly through:- 1) Broadcasting and distributing Christian messages 2) Producing and distributing literature 3) Holding local church meetings and assemblies 4) Ordaining and granting credentials or licences to preach to such individuals considered by the charity to be qualified.

Latest Income: £862,898
Areas of Operation: Various
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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Cardboard Citizens

Arts, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

Our mission is to use theatre combined with information, advice and guidance to inspire and support those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. We act as a catalyst for people to make changes in their lives. We also aim to improve public understanding and awareness by creating and performing works about the experiences of homeless and socially excluded people, with those people.

Latest Income: £858,113
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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One Dance UK

Arts

ONE DANCE UK IS THE NATIONAL VOICE FOR DANCE, ADVOCATING FOR THE INCREASED PROFILE OF DANCE IN ALL ITS DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC FORMS. BY WORKING WITH AND ON BEHALF OF THE DANCE SECTOR, ONE DANCE UK AIMS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE, LONGER DANCE CAREERS AND TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH DANCE IS CREATED, PERFORMED AND EXPERIENCED.

Latest Income: £852,536
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Newspaper Press Fund

Arts, Charitable activities, Housing

Supporting journalists and their dependants by the provision of retirement housing facilities. Also by making grants in approved cases to individuals who meet the occupational requirement.

Latest Income: £851,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Yorkshire Dance Centre Trust

Arts

Yorkshire Dance works through dance to create happiness, health, connection and change. We are excited by the diversity of dance in all its forms and styles. We want to support artists who ask questions of themselves, their work and of the world and those who challenge ideas about what is allowed. We dismantle traditional hierarchies both within the creation of dance and within our programming.

Latest Income: £839,612
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Evangelical Movement Of Wales

Arts, Religion

6 Bookshops, a conference centre, run camps & conferences and produce Christian publications. Provide theological education and training

Latest Income: £835,918
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Tara Arts Group

Arts, Society

Tara Arts' People, Words & Art: Connecting World, through the production and promotion of cross-cultural theatre at Tara Theatre in London and on national tour.

Latest Income: £833,538
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Brantwood (john Ruskin Memorial Trust)

Arts, Heritage, Leisure

To administer Brantwood as a permanent memorial to John Ruskin and as a museum, to which members of the public shall have access, containing collections of drawings, books and objects of interest connected with John Ruskin; and as a place of study and recreation for students, teachers and professors and such other members of the public as may from time to time be approved bythe Management Trustees

Latest Income: £831,635
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Half Moon Young People's Theatre Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education

Half Moon focuses on work for and with young people from 0 to 18. The work is inclusive and accessible for all. The company has two main thrusts of activity:- producing and presenting professional theatre at the base, in venues and in youth and schools settings - providing an extensive participatory programme including youth theatres, school and community projects.

Latest Income: £830,216
Areas of Operation: Tower Hamlets
Status: Registered
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Candoco Dance Company

Arts

Candoco's vision is to produce creatively ambitious and high-quality contemporary dance performance that will enhance its reputation as the world's leading company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Candoco strives to broaden the perception of what dance is, through its performance repertoire and its education and training programme.

Latest Income: £830,032
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Royal Artillery Museum

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

The objectives of the charity are to provide a Museum and library and raise funds for future development so as to educate the public and members of the Regiment in its history and traditions. It is also to conserve and care for the nationally designated collection

Latest Income: £824,922
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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The Hounslow Arts Trust LTD

Arts

The charitys principal activity is to operate Watermans, an arts centre in Brentford, which provides a year-round programme of performing arts, cinema, exhibitions and new media arts. In addition, it provides participative arts programmes for a wide range of communities both in its own venue and in other community spaces across West London.

Latest Income: £824,179
Areas of Operation: Hounslow
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 6,454 registered arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the 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 arts charities?

Arts charities reported a combined annual income of £6.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for arts charities?

Across all arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of arts charities?

Arts charities have an average annual income of £678k. 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.