AESOP ARTS AND SOCIETY LIMITED
Charity number: 1134572
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Foundation's mission is to bring the transformative potential of the arts into people's daily lives. Its first major programme of action focuses on bringing the arts into the mainstream of health and social care services.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £430,681
Total expenditure: £462,087
Total income includes £75,000 from 1 government grant(s)
People
7 Trustee(s)
28 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England
Governance
Registration history:
- 01 March 2010: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
7 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| Dr Kevin Fenton | Chair | 10 September 2018 |
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| Professor Andrew Thompson | Trustee | 09 December 2024 |
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| Julia Elizabeth Casson | Trustee | 08 December 2021 |
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| Jacqui Thornton | Trustee | 24 July 2019 |
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| Helen Gordon | Trustee | 24 July 2019 |
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| Mark Richard Hampton | Trustee | 08 September 2015 |
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| Peter David Daniel | Trustee | 07 January 2015 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £565.69k | £427.26k | £530.19k | £698.26k | £430.68k | |
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Total expenditure | £432.08k | £490.11k | £586.71k | £670.50k | £462.09k | |
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Income from government contracts | £55.00k | £89.74k | £163.43k | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £55.85k | £83.98k | £131.38k | £505.66k | £75.00k | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £530.53k | N/A | £365.96k | £696.51k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £35.16k | N/A | £164.23k | £1.75k | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £432.08k | N/A | £586.71k | £670.50k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £10.37k | N/A | £3.15k | £11.46k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 09 January 2026 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 09 January 2026 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 09 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 09 January 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 26 July 2024 | 177 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 26 July 2024 | 177 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 03 January 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 03 January 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 14 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 14 October 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |