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Chester Visual Arts

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1180619FlintshireEducation and training
Income£20k2025-04-30
Spending£14ksame year
Spent / received141%5-year average
Size in its cause53rd pctEducation and training
Registered2018Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Chester Visual Arts is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Flintshire. It was registered in November 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 10549768). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Chester Visual Arts reported income of £20k and spending of £14k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £15k to £20k (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 337%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Chester Visual Arts sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of East Hunsbury Primary School (£20k), Leighterton School PTFA (£20k) and Jonathan Scott Foundation (£20k).

Income and spending

£0£16k£33k£49k£66k2021 Income: £15,0082021 Spending: £45,26720212022 Income: £65,6302022 Spending: £48,66320222023 Income: £21,0912023 Spending: £56,54320232024 Income: £17,0172024 Spending: £31,66820242025 Income: £20,2812025 Spending: £14,1062025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Chester Visual Arts co-ordinates visual art activities, putting on programmes of local, national and international events, exhibitions and public activities. It aims to provide a permanent public visual arts gallery in the City of Chester for the benefit and education of the wider and visiting public of the North West region.

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CharityLocationIncome
Friends of East Hunsbury Primary SchoolNorthampton£20k
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Jonathan Scott FoundationPenrith£20k
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