Lantern Arts Centre

Analysis

Lantern Arts Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04556232). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Lantern Arts Centre reported income of £178k and spending of £171k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £106k to £178k (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lantern Arts Centre sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John's, Walton (£178k), Family Life Church, Thirsk (£178k) and Christian Mission Fellowship International UK (£178k).