CREATE (ARTS) LIMITED

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “From 1-7 July 2024, Create piloted Create Week, a new initiative designed to raise awareness of the importance of the creative arts for individuals, organisations and society.”
• “Create was the official charity partner for the Summer Reading Challenge, working in collaboration with The Reading Agency to unleash 581,301 children's creativity through reading at 3,130 library branches across the country.”
• “Create won the prestigious 'Most Innovative Proactive Wellbeing Activity' Mental Health Award in October for its creative:voices programme with adult carers; and secured seven Koestler Awards in recognition of its prison programmes.”
• “In February 2025, Create commissioned consultancy Partnership First to undertake its third independent evaluation of the charity's Social Value for the participants, organisations and communities with which it works, and the professional artists who deliver this work.”
• “Create increased its profile through high quality communications that helped to raise the profile of the importance of the creative arts, and to position the charity as a leader in its field and the CEO as an expert voice.”
• “In July 2024, the charity launched "Create Conversations", a series of online panel discussions designed to spark meaningful discussions about the role and importance of creativity in our society.”
• “Significant media coverage during the year included the Summer Reading Challenge, the launch of Create's partnership with White Stuff, a charity auction by spectacle-maker Cubitts in support of Create, and front-page coverage in Inside Time of the My Dad's In Prison project.”
• “Create's CEO Nicky Goulder took part in podcasts with The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) and with Understanding Society, was invited to write a comment piece for Prospect Magazine, and received national press coverage after being awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2025.”
• “Create will enter year five of its ambitious seven-year strategic plan with the aim of doubling the reach and impact of its work by its 25th anniversary in 2028.”
• “The charity is delighted to have secured a four year Literacy Special Initiative grant from St Paul's Schools Foundation (via The Mercers' Company) to fund our stories between 2025/26 and 2028/29.”
• “With the climate crisis arguably the most significant global challenge over the next decade and beyond, there is an urgent need to educate people on environmental issues.”
• “Following a successful pilot during 2024/25, the charity will be developing further two important initiatives: Create Week from 1-7 July 2025, a week-long event to promote and celebrate creativity and its importance for the wellbeing of individuals, organisations and society as a whole; and Create Conversations a series of online panel discussions on the role of creativity in society.”
• “Thanks to a major new grant aimed at helping to strengthen long-term impact, efficiency and sustainability, Create will be undertaking a significant IT infrastructure programme during the year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  +20.6%

  £1,262,735 → £1,522,636

• Net assets

  +18.6%

  £1,271,550 → £1,507,690

• Employees

  +4.8%

  21 → 22

• Wages

  +15.5%

  £660,308 → £762,890

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers