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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.

Friends Of The William Morris Gallery

Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

The charity exists to educate the public by the promotion, support, assistance and improvement of the William Morris Gallery through the activities of a group of Friends. Funds raised are used to help the Gallery to make acquisitions and to support its development: following a fund-raising drive, the Gallery reopened to the public in August 2012.

Latest Income: £7,642
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Dick Harrison Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Environment

Gives charitable grants to students who are undertaking further education in rural land management and livestock auctioneering. Grants may be given in the form of money or books and equipment

Latest Income: £7,641
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Lamorna Village Hall

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Facilities, Leisure

Lamorna Village Hall is a granite built ex school house. It aims to serve the community by providing a central maintained venue for community activities. There is a wide range of events and activities including yoga, flower clubs, art exhibitions, plays, carol concerts and other events. The Hall is available for hire and is used widely for local family events.

Latest Income: £7,635
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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East Ruston Village Hall

Arts, Facilities, Leisure

Dances and social evenings, Information talks, Pilates, Private hire, Story tellers, Craft fairs and photography/art exhibitions

Latest Income: £7,634
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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David Hughes Community Centre

Arts, Facilities, Religion

We are a community centre and provide a venue for local organisations and groups - art groups and exhibitions, church, bridge, cinema club, amateur dramatics, wedding receptions, meetings, social gatherings, craft & needlework.

Latest Income: £7,630
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Anglesey
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The North Powys Youth Brass Band

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Education

Youth Brass Band drawn from North Powys schools. Weekly practice sessions and regular public performances.

Latest Income: £7,624
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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Nonington Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

The hall is used by various local groups as a venue for meetings and activities including badminton, exercise class, Garden and Film Clubs and Parish Council The Hall is also used as a venue for private parties, wedding receptions, funeral teas, children's parties and as a polling station. The hall is used by people of all ages from the village and surrounding areas.

Latest Income: £7,615
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Village Hall

Arts, Facilities

Hire of premises to a number local organisations, and also to individuals.Hiring of musicians/entertainers for concerts.Maintaining the building in good condition and carrying out improvements.Encouraging wider use of Hall by local residents

Latest Income: £7,614
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Church House

Arts, Heritage, Religion

Church House, Crowcombe, provides in its medieval Gallery a venue for exhibitions, courses and social functions. A Meeting Room is also available for smaller events, including educational.

Latest Income: £7,603
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Basildon Hospital Radio

Arts, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Health, Leisure

Basildon Hospital Radio provide an entertainment and information service to the patients, staff and visitors to the hospital. Most of our programmes are music based with our daily request shows and our weekly programme aimed at the hospital staff being the most popular. We are staffed entirely by volunteers and broadcast 24 hours per day with both live and computer-controlled programmes.

Latest Income: £7,585
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Oxfordshire Local History Association

Arts, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

Fosters and promotes the study and publication of local history in Oxfordshire. Publishes a regular news bulletin and an occasional journal and organises two study days a year. Acts as an umbrella organisation for parish and other local history groups. Makes occasional small grants to individuals and organisations to facilitate the study of Oxfordshire local history.

Latest Income: £7,580
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Clwyd Welsh Pony And Cob Association

Animals, Arts, Charity and VCS support

To promote the breeding and improvement of Welsh Ponies and Cobs for the public benefit and for the benefit of the breed. To promote all sections of the Welsh Stud Book as described in the rules of the Welsh Pony & Cob Society. To organise shows and to award rosettes, prizes and cups. To organise social and fund raising events. To give guidance and advice on the breeding and showing of ponies.

Latest Income: £7,578
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluoedd Powys/powys Family History Society

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage

To promote, for the benefit and education of the public, the study of genealogy, family history and local history, with particular reference to the County of Powys; and to promote the preservation, security and accessability of library and archival materials.

Latest Income: £7,564
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Wakefield Festival Chorus

Arts

We perform several concerts a year in Wakefield and West Yorkshire, and promote early career singers as soloists. Proceeds from ticket sales help with the costs of the concerts.

Latest Income: £7,564
Areas of Operation: City Of Wakefield
Status: Registered
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Rise Park Community Association

Arts, Associations, Facilities, Leisure, Social welfare

The Association manages a community centre providing many and varied activities for people of all ages and disabilities in the local community in the promotion of health and fitness, art and crafts, and social events including general charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £7,564
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Acaster Malbis Memorial Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Facilities

Meeting place for:- craft club - Yorkshire Country Womens Ass - social dancing - fund raising activities, parties etc.

Latest Income: £7,563
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Otley Players

Arts

The objects of the charity are to educate the public in the dramatic and operatic arts and to futher development of, public appreciation and taste in them.

Latest Income: £7,562
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Borrowby Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Facilities, Leisure

Trust document states the hall be run for the benefit of the local community. Local bodies including Parish council, local agricultural show, tennis, football & cricket club hold meetings and fundraising events. There is a book cafe and Kidz club. The hall is let for yoga, pilates, art classes, etc and other social occasions. A side room is let on a permanent basis to a wedding photographer.

Latest Income: £7,560
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Schola Gregoriana Of Cambridge

Arts

The study, teaching, promotion and performance of choral and other music, and in particular Gregorian Chant or Plainsong.

Latest Income: £7,546
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Battle And District Historical Society

Arts, Heritage

The Society was founded to encourage the knowledge and study of history within Battle and the surrounding area. This is achieved through a programme of illustrated lectures by specialists in their subjects and the publication of books and journals that are relevant to the local history of Battle.

Latest Income: £7,545
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Mountain Ash And District Choral Society

Arts

The study, practice and encouragement by means of public performance and otherwise of choral music in all its forms so as to foster knowledge and appreciation of such music including performance in Welsh, where appropriate, or for other such charitable purposes as the Committee in their discretion think fit.

Latest Income: £7,544
Areas of Operation: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Status: Registered
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The Guild Singers

Arts

We are a chamber choir formed in 1980, based in Chorley, Lancashire. We are established performers of a wide repertoire of music ranging from the Renaissance classics of William Byrd and his contemporaries to the lighter styles of modern popular and folk song arrangements. The emphasis is on unaccompanied singing, but all styles are within the choir's capabilities.

Latest Income: £7,541
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Hadleigh Afternoon Womens Institute

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Housing, Research, Society

To enable women who are interested in issues associated with rural life, including arts crafts and sciences,to improve & develop conditions of rural life. To advance education in citizenship, & other cultural subjects & in agriculture, handicrafts, home economics, health and social welfare. Women are given the opportunity to work together to put into practice the ideals of the organisation.

Latest Income: £7,541
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Sirenian Singers

Arts, Housing

Mixed Choir formed to bring choral music to the wider public both nationally and internationally through the media of concerts, radio and television including competition both at home and abroad and to encourage music appreciation to people in all walks of life.

Latest Income: £7,539
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Bollington Light Opera Group

Arts

The object of the Opera Group is to educate the public in the dramatic and operatic arts and to further the development of the public appreciation and taste in the said arts, to assist and further such charitable institutions and charitable purposes as the committee from time to time shall determine.

Latest Income: £7,533
Areas of Operation: Various
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.