Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

DADA-DISABILITY AND DEAF ARTS

A Disability and Deaf Arts agency offering opportunities and support to Disabled and Deaf people including artists. DaDaFest also provides training to other arts venues to enable access and equality for Disabled and Deaf audiences. The biennial festival, DaDaFest, takes place in Liverpool and other locations across the North West and the UK, bringing in artists and audiences from across the world
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£308£513£-205n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22*£442£427£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£450£343£107n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£517£439£78£3£375£1243.460
31/03/19£646£516£130£8£298£771.885
31/03/18£408£347£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£460£452£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£468£468£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£581£627£-47£13£98£440.870
31/03/14£376£342£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£472£421£51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£383£398£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£632£631£1£15£74£240.560
31/03/10£427£407£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£534£555£-22£205£52£-3-0.160
31/03/08£376£359£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£439£439£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£341£357£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£328£276£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£325£338£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 32 years

www.dadafest.co.uk

info@dadafest.co.uk

01517071733

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Deaf people
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

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
Youth Music£112,376
Esmee Fairbairn£29,636
BBC Children in Need£500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - Stability Fund
£13,500 13/12/2023
Stability Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to DaDa -- Disability and Deaf Arts (DaDaFest)
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DaDa Fest
£29,636 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Youth Music - DaDaFest Ensemble
£98,876 24/04/2020
DaDaFest Ensemble
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DaDa Fest
£178,865 26/09/2018
36
Towards a professional development programme for emerging disabled and D/deaf artists.
National Lottery Community Fund - DaDaFest Ensemble: Hitting the Heights
£9,953 03/08/2018
12
The organisation will create an accessible musical ensemble for young disabled people at Huyton library. They will work with professional musicians, and lead the direction of the workshops, initiating ideas and making choices about the content and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Young DaDaFest
£248,000 12/07/2018
36
DaDaFest develops and showcases disability and d/Deaf arts through a multi-artform artistic programme. This programme aims to address systemic barriers to engagement in the arts faced by young disabled people. This will embed inclusive practice in ....more
Youth Music - Young DaDaFest Ensemble
£99,998 11/05/2018
Young DaDaFest Ensemble
BBC Children in Need - Grant to DaDa -- Disability and Deaf Arts (DaDaFest)
£90,025 02/03/2018
36
This project will deliver 'Young DaDaFest' for young people at Alder Hey who are disabled, deaf or living with a long term illness. It will deliver artistic development sessions and performances to increase confidence, self-belief and artistic ....more
Youth Music - Young DaDaFest Ensemble
£29,971 07/07/2017
Young DaDaFest Ensemble
National Lottery Community Fund - DaDaFest Rookies
£275,589 27/07/2016
36
This is a new project by Disability and Deaf Arts in Liverpool (DaDa). The project will offer skills development, training and qualifications to disabled people aged 14-30. The project will provide a leadership programme, run by young people, peer ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to DaDa - Disability and Deaf Arts
£50,300 30/06/2014
Unsung: Celebrating the Bicentenary, Social Actions and legacy of Edward Rushton
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to DaDa - Disability & Deaf Arts
£49,800 31/10/2013
Recipe for Scouse: the heritage ingredients in our unique Liverpool identity
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to DaDa - Disability and Deaf Arts
£16,000 28/06/2013
Young DaDA, an empowerment programme, which enables disabled young people to use the arts to bring issues to the fore & learn new skills. Led by a Young DaDa steering group, ensuring YP make the decisions about the programme and have their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - DaDa Live - A live arts and performance programme for Disabled/Deaf young p
£86,000 12/01/2010
24
This new project will deliver a live arts and progressive performance programme for disabled and deaf young people aged 13-19 in Merseyside. It will aim to break down the barriers experienced by this group and provide them with training, development ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-66
  • ALISON BREADON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Worker
  • AMANDA REDVERS-ROWE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Artist
  • BARRY EDWARD AVISON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • CHRISTINE BITHELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Charity Manager
  • DR ERIN PRITCHARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • HORMOZ AHMADZADEH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Cic Director
  • ROBERT MARTIN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/09/1992, number: 1014390
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/08/1991, number: 02636606
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 6 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

THE BLUECOAT
SCHOOL LANE
L1 3BX

Objectives

1) TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ARTS ACROSS THE UK AND INTERNATIONALLY2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IFOR ARTS, CULTURE, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PERSONS FOR WHOM SUCH FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS3) TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF, AND EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR, DISABLED AND DEAF PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO FULL AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AS CITIZENS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH WEST ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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