Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED

Creating and producing new theatrical productions and providing an educational programme to accompany and complement this.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,893£2,362£-469£22£905£8744.4160
31/03/22£871£1,013£-142£18£1,374£1,37416.370
31/03/21£831£737£94£26£1,516£1,48524.270
31/03/20£523£786£-263£3£1,422£1,42221.770
31/03/19£1,130£1,036£94£11£1,685£1,66419.360
31/03/18£1,413£1,476£-63£0£1,591£1,50112.270
31/03/17£2,220£2,001£219£0£1,654£1,4718.870
31/03/16£1,600£1,343£257£0£1,435£1,20810.870
31/03/15£1,029£1,016£14£7£1,178£1,04012.370
31/03/14£1,252£1,178£74£8£1,165£1,03910.6110
31/03/13£2,080£1,759£320£7£1,090£9876.7220
31/03/12*£1,240£1,385£-145£7£770£6795.9180
31/03/11*£1,710£1,766£-55£12£916£8385.760
31/03/10*£1,173£1,206£-33£7£971£9129.1100
31/03/09£1,967£1,625£342£11£1,004£9637.1170
31/03/08£1,513£1,556£-43£8£662£6354.9140
31/03/07*£458£550£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£1,465£1,441£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,156£966£189n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£731£759£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 32 years

www.complicite.org

email@complicite.org

02074857700

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£502,542
John Ellerman Foundation£100,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Backstage Trust£20,000
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch£19,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Grief Chorus
£10,000 19/05/2023
The funding will be used to deliver choir sessions. The project aims to help people to process their grief and to use singing as a way to improve their wellbeing.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Theatre de Complicite
£6,000 02/02/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs, in support of development of new touring work
£100,000 28/07/2022
Core costs, in support of development of new touring work
Backstage Trust - Production grant
£20,000 03/05/2022
Production support for Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
National Lottery Community Fund - Grief Chorus
£10,000 04/03/2022
The funding will be used to create and deliver a performance project that will explore how people navigate grief. The project aims to equip people to navigate grief through singing while developing healing and understanding in this area.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Complicité
£19,500 29/04/2021
Funding for Can I Live?, a digital climate/arts production developed in partnership between Complicité and actor/climate activist Fehinti Balogun, as a case study to test and document the potential of the arts as a tool for engaging new audiences.
DCMS - National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
£370,313 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....more
DCMS - Complicité - from enquiry to action
£132,229 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Theatre De Complicite Education Limited
£10,000 23/10/2019
To fund a paid administrative role to support the Culture Declares Emergency (CDE) climate protest movement.
DCMS - National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
£363,622 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
£363,622 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
£90,906 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisations 2018 - 2022
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 03/11/2017
A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer - Revival Tour
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Embodying Maths: Explore and Test
£60,000 14/12/2015
22
Following a small-scale pilot with Sheffield Hallam University in 2014, Complicite want to evaluate a drama-based, whole class approach to maths, to see if it improves children’s attainment.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-70
  • EMMA STEVENSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Global Funding Partnerships
  • FRANCES HUGHES Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Solicitor
  • INUA ELLAMS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Artist
  • LOUISE JEFFREYS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant
  • NITIN SAWHNEY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Composer, Producer, Songwriter, Musician
  • PETER GERALD FLAMMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Vice President International (Media Executive)
  • TOM MORRIS (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Artistic Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/07/1992, number: 1012507
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/06/1991, number: 02625105
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 0 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR07: 69 days late,
Main office

Jolt Studios
27 St Aldate Street
Kings Square
Gloucester
GL1 1RP

Objectives

To establish, promote, equip, organise and manage educational workshops in the promotion of the theatre of the arts, to present and promote the production of plays, operas, variety performances, concerts, dramatic, musical and artistic performances and exhibitions of any description; to engage, employ and supply the services of artistes, dancers, choreographers, musicians, authors, dramatists, instructors, entertainers and to enter into contracts with any artistes, or persons or companies (theatrical or otherwise) for the production and representation of stage plays, ballets, variety entertainments, scenarios, pantomimes and performances; to organise tours and exhibitions within and outside the United Kingdom; to carry on the business of musicians, singers, composers and writers of every and any description; to carry on the business of entertainers, actors and/or actresses, opera singers and general entertainers of every and any description; to enter into any contracts and other arrangements of all kinds with persons having dealings with the Company on such terms and for such periods of time as the Company may from time to time determine, on a commission or fee basis or otherwise; to enter into film and other contracts of all kinds; to carry on the business of theatrical agents and artistes’ managers of every and any description; to carry on the business of writers and composers; theatrical agents and general entertainers of all kinds; and to carry on any other trade or business whatever of a like and similar nature.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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