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← Arts Cabinet

2025-01-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From: 31 January 2024 To: 31 January 2025

Charity name: Arts Cabinet

Charity registration number: 1167368

Objectives and Activities

SORP
reference
Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document		 Para 1.17 To advance education in the arts and culture
for the public benefit by:
• Raising awareness of artistic research in
global contemporary art practises.
• Fostering working collaborations between
artists and researchers.
• Disseminating new forms of knowledge
emerging from artistic and academic
research collaborations.
• Providing widely accessible digital and
other publications, and producing
workshops, learning labs, seminars, talks,
exhibitions and other such events on the said
subjects.
Any other such charitable ways as the
trustees see fit in furtherance of this object.
Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public benefit, in particular,
the activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.		 Para 1.17
and 1.19		 Consolidated strategic partnerships with
Higher Education institutions and expanded
the organisation's publishing and public
programming capacity:
•
King's College London, primarily
through the Faculty of Social Science
and Public Policy, the Migration
Research Group, and the Visual and
Embodied Methodologies Network
•
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, the
Environment and Society (Imperial
College, King's College London,
Reading University and Royal
Holloway College)
•
Continued collaboration with
established international academic

and arts networks In partnership with King's College London and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts Cabinet served as art/curatorial partner for a two-year research project on intersectional gendered violence. The project employed visual and embodied methodologies to examine gendered violence through artist-researcher collaborations, culminating in the Editorial Imaging Gendered Violence , part 1 published in January 2025. This multi-contributor publication featured new artistic commissions and collaborative works exploring how art can make visible complex experiences of gendered violence across different contexts. Arts Cabinet curated and published the Editorial Water is the Longest Separation , a multi-part project featuring artist Shivanjani Lal. The project comprised a new video work, glossary of moving concepts, audio works and photographic materials investigating indentured labour from Fiji, memorial practices, and migration. In partnership with the Migration Research Group at King's College London, a dissemination of this editorial project presenting art/research methods on migration as both research subject and lived practice, was presented to students, curators, artists, researchers, and communities with lived experience of migration – in the U.K. and internationally.

Following the public exhibition and programme presented in the previous period, Arts Cabinet published the Editorial Indigenous Ecologies, Climate and Fire in partnership with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfire, Environment and Society and King's College London. This editorial brought together Indigenous artist Edgar Calel and Indigenous scientist Melinda M. Adams to present alternatives to Western environmental management frameworks, centring Indigenous fire relational ecologies and Traditional Ecological Knowledge as essential frameworks for climate adaptation and land stewardship.

Continued investment in developing the Arts Cabinet website as our primary platform for

reaching students, researchers, artists and
broader publics interested in experimental
research methodologies. The website serves
as a freely accessible digital archive of all
editorial projects, making complex
interdisciplinary work available to
international audiences and enabling ongoing
engagement with our community of practice
across academic institutions, arts
organisations and interested publics.
Continued to ensure that all editorial content
and artistic commissions were made freely
accessible online, supporting knowledge
transfer and broad public engagement with
experimental research methodologies at the
intersection of art and academia.
Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit		 Para 1.18 The Trustees had full regard to Charity
Commission guidance on public benefit at all
times.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

SORP
reference
Policy on grant making Para 1.38 N/A
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment		 Para 1.38 N/A
Contribution made by
volunteers		 Para 1.38 N/A
Other N/A

Achievements and Performance

SORP reference

Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to society
as a whole.		 Para 1.20 The main achievements in this period were:
•Successful completion and publication of
three major Editorial projects representing
two years of sustained artist-researcher
collaborations across critical areas: gendered
violence, migration and displacement, and
Indigenous knowledge systems in relation to
climate crisis. These projects generated new
methodological approaches to engaging art
within research contexts, demonstrating how
visual and embodied practices can make
complex social science research accessible to
broader publics while deepening analytical
possibilities for researchers.
•Strengthened Arts Cabinet's position as
specialist curatorial partner for research
councils and Higher Education institutions
seeking to integrate artistic practice into
social science and environmental research.
•The successful delivery of the ESRC-
funded_Imaging Gendered Violence_project
established new models for long-term artist-
researcher collaboration and demonstrated
measurable research impact through artistic
outputs.
•Created accessible pathways for diverse
publics to engage with specialist academic
knowledge through art. Each Editorial
project combined digital publications, artistic
commissions, and where possible, public
programmes and workshops. This multi-
format approach enabled researchers to reach
audiences beyond academia, while artists
gained platforms to present socially-engaged
work grounded in rigorous research contexts.
•Advanced methodological innovation in
curatorial practice as research practice. By
documenting and analysing the collaborative
processes between artists and researchers
across all three Editorial projects, Arts
Cabinet contributed to growing
understanding of how curatorial work can
function as knowledge production, not
merely knowledge dissemination. This
positions curators as active participants in
research rather than service providers.
•Beneficiaries of Arts Cabinet's work
during this period included Early Career
Researchers who gained practical experience
working with artists; established researchers
who developed new methodologies for
making their work public-facing;
commissioned artists who received support

for developing substantial new bodies of work; and diverse publics who accessed freely available digital content exploring urgent social and environmental issues through artistic perspectives. • The focus on Indigenous knowledge systems ( Indigenous Ecologies, Climate and Fire ) and migration histories ( Water is the Longest Separation ) ensured that Arts Cabinet's programming centred voices and perspectives often marginalised in mainstream academic and cultural institutions, contributing to ongoing efforts toward epistemic justice in knowledge production.

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Achievements against
objectives set		 Para 1.41 Our priority this year was to secure
strategic partnership with Higher
Education. This was achieved (see
above).
Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set		 Para 1.41 Arts Cabinet received funds through its
collaboration with Higher Education
partners, principally from King’s College
London and the Leverhulme Wildfires Trust,
as well as from the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC).
Investment performance
against objectives		 Para 1.41 N/A
Other N/A

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period		 Para 1.21 At the end of the period, the organisation had
a balance of £39,268
Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held		 Para 1.22 N/A
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £10,000
Reasons for holding zero
reserves		 Para 1.22 N/A
Details of fund materially
in deficit		 Para 1.24 N/A
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern		 Para 1.23 N/A
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)		 Para 1.47 Fundraising activities with Higher Education
partners, specifically King's College London
through multiple departments and research
centres, the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC), and the Leverhulme Centre
forWildfire,Environment and Society.
Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted		 Para 1.46 N/A
A description of the
principal risks facing the
charity		 Para 1.46 The principal risk is breakdown in
partnerships with higher education
institutions and research funding bodies. We
manage this risk through active relationship
management, working with a diversified
range of partners across multiple institutions,
and consistent delivery of high-quality
outputs that demonstrate measurable impact
and value, as well as active and ongoing
review of risks bytheBoard.
Other N/A

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s
trusts:		 N/A
Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal charter)		 Para 1.25 Constitution
How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)		 Para 1.25 CIO
Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees		 Para 1.25 Apart from the first charity trustees,
every trustee must be appointed for a
term of three years by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting
of the charity trustees.
In selecting individuals for appointment
as charity trustees, the charity trustees
must have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for
the achievement of its purposes and
effective management and
administrationof the CIO
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees		 Para 1.51 The charity trustees will make available
to each new charity trustee, on or before
his or her first appointment:
(a) A copy of the current version of this
constitution; and
(b) A copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’
Annual Report, statement of accounts
and business plan, and Guidance for
New Trustees.
The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works		 Para 1.51 N/A
Relationship with any
related parties		 Para 1.51 N/A
Other N/A

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name Arts Cabinet
Other name the charity
uses		 None
Registered charity number 1167368
Charity’s principal address 1, The Green
Richmond-upon-Thames
London TW9 1PL

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Svetlana
Sequeira Costa

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name Michael Patrick Houlihan Svetlana Sequeira Costa Anya Smirnova

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
N/A

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements N/A for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Svetlana Sequeira Costa

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

N/A

Other optional information

N/A

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) ~~[oe~~ Michael Patrick Houlihan ~~aed a~~ Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) ~~ee~~[Chair of the Board of Trustees ] Date 20 November 2025 ~~oo~~

Docusign Envelope ID: 335E0178-E3A9-4B21-938A-A66EEC7951B0

Charity Name
ARTS CABINET		 No (if any)
1167368

Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/02/2024 31/01/2025 ~~ee ee ee~~

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds

Total funds Last year

Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Endowment
funds		 Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 17,542 - - 17,542 9,300
Book sales 294 - - 294 870
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 (Gross income for
AR)		 17,836 - - 17,836 10,170
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total -
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Total receipts
17,836
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-
17,836
10,170
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A3 Payments
Designing& editingcosts - - - - 1,900
Honorariums - - - - 1,230
Accountancy 480 - - 480 720
Consultancy 15,590 - - 15,590 4,634
Computer costs 2,954 - - 2,954 2,884
Subscriptions 18 - - 18 132
Sundryexpenses 50 - - 50 30
Bank charges 107 - - 107 93
Insurance 214 - - 214 203
**Sub total ** 19,413 - - 19,413 11,826
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total -
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Total payments
19,413
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-
19,413
11,826
Net of receipts/(payments)
- 1,577
-
- - 1,577
- 1,656
A5 Transfers between funds
-
- -
-
-
A6 Cash funds last year end
40,705
- -
40,705
42,361
Cash funds this year end
39,128
-
- 39,128
40,705
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/11/2025

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Docusign Envelope ID: 335E0178-E3A9-4B21-938A-A66EEC7951B0

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted
Restricted		 Endowment
Categories Details funds
funds		 funds
to nearest £
to nearest £		 to nearest £
B1 Cash funds 39,128
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39,128
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Total cash funds
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(agree balances with receipts and payments (agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK
OK		 OK
Unrestricted
Restricted		 Endowment
funds
funds		 funds
Details to nearest £
to nearest £		 to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets -
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Details Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)		 Current value
(optional)
B3 Investment assets -
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Details Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)		 Current value
(optional)
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use		 -
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B5 Liabilities
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)		 -
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Date of
approval
Print Name
MP Houlihan
Signature
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26/11/2025
27 November 2025
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