EXETER CITY OF LITERATURE
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
ExCoL was established to steward the UNESCO Creative City designation granted to Exeter in 2019 and to improve cultural & creative programming throughout Exeter & Devon. We believe in the power of literature to enable us to better know ourselves and others, and to imagine new possibilities for this world.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income includes £162,785 from 3 government grant(s)
People
7 Trustee(s)
15 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Devon
Governance
- 19 November 2021: CIO registration
- EXETER UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- 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
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)
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| Sharifa Milford Al Hashemy | Chair | 16 April 2024 |
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| Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson | Trustee | 16 April 2024 |
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| Thomas Staniford | Trustee | 16 April 2024 |
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| Hannah Victoria Miller | Trustee | 16 April 2024 |
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| Dr Adam Andrew Watt | Trustee | 11 November 2022 |
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| May Argyle | Trustee | 11 November 2022 |
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| DEE ROWETT | Trustee | 19 November 2021 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £136.10k | £256.36k | £182.67k | |
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Total expenditure | £72.21k | £174.10k | £176.54k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £6.20k | £162.79k |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 03 December 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 03 December 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On time |