Forma Arts and Media Limited

Analysis

Forma Arts and Media Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04338639). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Forma Arts and Media Limited reported income of £435k and spending of £449k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £409k to £435k (+6.3%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Forma Arts and Media Limited sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Enjoy Church (£435k), Transformation CPR (£435k) and Home-Start Wakefield and District (£435k).

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.