Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 3
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -8 ?

YORUBA CONTEMPORARY ARTS TRUST 

Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust is a charitable trust, committed to fostering the development of African arts and culture through a wide range of educational and arts activities and promoting an awareness of the impact of African people on the wider African Diaspora.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/22£23£41£-18n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21*£83£67£17n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£52£56£-5n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/19£75£78£-3n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/18£45£47£-2£0£0£0n/a04
31/03/17£24£5£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£6£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£9£15£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£22£14£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£19£26£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£26£30£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£42£48£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£24£15£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£8£6£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£14£18£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£33£31£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 28 years

https://www.facebook.com/IfaYorubaContemporar

ifayorubacontemporaryarts@gmail.com

07529780879

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cuba, Germany, Haiti, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Throughout England, Trinidad And Tobago, United States,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to IFA Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
£10,000 20/01/2023
Tales of Orisa
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
£10,000 08/02/2021
NL20:Ark at that!
Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
£9,550 30/04/2020
Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Adapting and staying inclusive
National Lottery Community Fund - Creation Project
£10,000 25/01/2019
12
This funding will be used to run creative arts projects for families and young people living with disabilities. The project aims to bring people together from different cultural backgrounds and ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
£10,000 10/07/2018
Birchfield Heritage Trail
Youth Music - The Birchfield Youth Ensemble
£30,000 09/03/2018
The Birchfield Youth Ensemble
National Lottery Community Fund - Connection Through Cultures
£10,000 04/01/2017
12
This project will stage arts and music sessions for local people. This will enable the organisation to engage local people in activities which encourage bringing the community together.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the project "Osun's Story"
£2,000 30/07/2008
Towards the project "Osun's Story" to help with integration of local young people with those from the Yoruba tradition.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/05/1996, number: 1055632
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR21: 57 days late, AR15: 115 days late, AR14: 217 days late, AR13: 320 days late, AR12: 57 days late, AR11: 45 days late, AR10: 0 days late, AR08: 48 days late, AR07: 250 days late, AR06: 646 days late, AR05: 145 days late,
Main office

31
Poplar
Smethwick
Smethwick
West Midlands
B20 3JL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN YORUBA ART AND CULTURE BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE CENTRED IN LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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