## **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**
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|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.|
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|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:
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|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|
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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**|||
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|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|
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|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.|
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|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|
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|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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– 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**||
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## **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).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**17,836**
**-**
**-**
**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)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**19,413**
**-**
**-**
**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
1
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**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,128**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
~~SS~~|||||
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||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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**Amount due**||**When due**||
||**Details**|**liability relates**
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
Print Name
MP Houlihan
Signature
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26/11/2025
27 November 2025
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