Somerset Partnership Arts Education Agency

Analysis

Somerset Partnership Arts Education Agency is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devon. It was registered in November 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, amateur sport and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04043022). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Somerset Partnership Arts Education Agency reported income of £52k and spending of £85k, spending 165% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £80k to £52k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Somerset Partnership Arts Education Agency sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Anne's-On-Sea Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (£52k), Hilda Lane Community Association (£52k) and The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society (£52k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.