Mediale CIO
Charity number: 1189852
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Mediale is an independent arts charity, originally founded in 2016 to celebrate the designation of York as the first and only UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in the UK.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £335,449
Total expenditure: £350,519
Total income includes £10,122 from 1 government contract(s) and £196,000 from 1 government grant(s)
People
8 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
| Number of employees | |
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| £70k to £80k | 1 |
Fundraising
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:
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England
Governance
Registration history:
- 09 June 2020: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- Mediale (Working name)
- YORK MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL CIO (Previous name)
- YORK MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (Previous name)
- YORK MEDIALE (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- 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
8 Trustee(s)
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| Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino | Chair | 22 September 2021 |
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| Lisa Gray | Trustee | 17 October 2025 |
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| Theodora Vougiouka | Trustee | 17 October 2025 |
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| Thomas Charles John Feeney | Trustee | 17 July 2025 |
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| Dr Michelle Kasprzak | Trustee | 17 July 2025 |
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| Ernst Hugo Weijers | Trustee | 17 July 2025 |
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| Kay Hannah Watson | Trustee | 22 September 2021 |
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| Kristina Maurer | Trustee | 22 September 2021 |
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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 | £452.63k | £230.83k | £474.18k | £465.61k | £335.45k | |
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Total expenditure | £419.13k | £319.16k | £438.70k | £456.71k | £350.52k | |
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Income from government contracts | £153.99k | £131.89k | £1.24k | £112.69k | £10.12k | |
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Income from government grants | £214.42k | £32.95k | £247.83k | £216.55k | £196.00k |
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 | 19 September 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 19 September 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 22 October 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 22 October 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 20 November 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 20 November 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 21 November 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR |
31 March 2022
(These accounts |
21 November 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 31 January 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 31 January 2022 | On time |