Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

FABRICA

To promote, maintain, improve and advance education, particularly by the encouragement of the visual arts and places where they may be practised and where art and artefacts may be exhibited with particular reference to the education of the public and the encouragement of the arts in Sussex and other parts of the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

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£503£619£-116£68£459£1292.517100
?31/03/22£496£529£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£532£463£69£14£608£2175.615100
?31/03/20*£464£531£-68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£436£376£61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£392£434£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£383£363£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£901£461£439£22£567£932.4100
31/03/15*£1,009£1,067£-59£30£128£720.8100
31/03/14£872£884£-12£28£186£1081.580
31/03/13*£530£605£-75£33£198£1052.180
31/03/12*£440£467£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£525£391£134£23£301£581.890
31/03/10£336£326£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£314£293£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£356£318£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£325£371£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£394£366£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£212£320£-109n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£347£342£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 29%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 28%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 28 years

www.fabrica.org.uk

office@fabrica.org.uk

01273778646

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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
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
DCMS£365,452
National Lottery Heritage Fund£71,495
Sussex Community Foundation£44,708
National Lottery Community Fund£9,989
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£10,000 26/07/2023
Funding was provided towards their 'Renew, Repurpose' courses.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£5,000 14/07/2023
Funding was provided towards their Men in Sheds project.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£750 19/06/2023
Funding was provided for their Men In Sheds projects in Craven Vale and Whitehawk Hill Allotments Society
Sussex Community Foundation - The Kemptown Shed
£500 17/03/2022
Funding was provided towards a bespoke woodworking workshop in collaboration with The Wood Store.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£4,100 11/03/2022
Funding was provided towards staff costs for three volunteer coordinators.
National Lottery Community Fund - Men Who Make: A Creative Mental Health Project
£9,989 14/01/2022
The funding will provide for a creative group setting for adult men to make social connections learn new skills share knowledge build confidence and improve mental health and wellbeing. It will deliver 3 blocks of 6 weekly sessions (18 total) ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Fabrica
£71,495 12/01/2022
Swimming a Long Way Together
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£6,708 07/07/2021
Fabrica is a popular contemporary arts gallery and charity in Brighton. Funding was provided for their 'Men Who Make' project – a bespoke initiative developed out of learning and extensive experience delivering mental health and wellbeing ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£10,000 13/05/2021
12
Funding was provided to install a solar heating system and take other measures to improve the temperature of the public areas and the offices during the colder months.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£5,000 18/11/2020
1
Funding was provided for staff costs of 3 volunteer co-ordinators.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£2,650 04/05/2020
Fabrica is Brighton’s centre for contemporary art. Alongside their programme of exhibitions, events and films they, work directly with vulnerable audiences through holistic, person-centred arts engagement. Funding will increase capacity and ....more
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£180,842 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that 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 ....more
DCMS - Fabrica's COVID-19 Recovery Plan
£122,453 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Fabrica's Reopening Plan
£62,157 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Fabrica
£2,000 11/12/2019
Engaging with marginalised audiences, e.g. disabled, BAME, people living below the minimum poverty threshold for the appreciation of arts, performances or exhibitions
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£5,000 15/03/2019
23
Funding was provided for staff and project costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fabrica
£5,000 16/11/2018
12
Funding was provided towards the core costs of their volunteer co-ordinators and project evaluation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Fabrica
£99,900 18/09/2018
PAST:PRESENT:FUTURE: Holy Trinity Church - The First 200 Years
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 06/02/2018
Fabrica: transition towards a stable future
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Fabrica & Project Art Works - Multisensory Co-Commission
£29,300 21/03/2016
20
Fabrica and PAW want to understand more about people with severe intellectual disabilities as both creative participants, and as a gallery audience. They also want to understand the challenges and opportunities of co-production, co-commissioning and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Interval and the Instant
£10,000 25/02/2015
12
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-76
  • DR HELEN JEAN WALKER Appointed: 2001, Occupation: University Head Of Department
  • LEE RODWELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • LOUISE BRISTOW Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • NANNETTE ALDRED (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Lecturer (Retired)
  • NICK TANDAVANITJ Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/06/1996, number: 1055584
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/04/1996, number: 03185119
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
  • 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; AR20: 11 days late, AR16: 18 days late, AR15: 111 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 15 days late, AR09: 3 days late, AR07: 8 days late, AR06: 27 days late, AR04: 41 days late,
Main office

FABRICA
40 DUKE STREET
BRIGHTON
BN1 1AG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE VISUAL ARTS AND PLACES WHERE THEY MAY BE PRACTISED AND WHERE ART AND ARTIFACTS MAY BE EXHIBITED WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS IN SUSSEX AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SUSSEX AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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