Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Poor Liquidity: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

No volunteer policy: -2
12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 9

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET

Birmingham Royal Ballet seeks to be the UK's foremost international ballet company, enriching people's lives through dance, and aspiring to excellence in all that it does

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
Why are there 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
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		£16,576	£16,757	£-181	£616	£8,068	£4,307	3.1	208	17
31/03/22		£13,392	£15,217	£-1,824	£652	£8,512	£4,447	3.5	188	17
31/03/21		£14,423	£10,801	£3,622	£633	£10,264	£6,374	7.1	182	0
31/03/20	*	£15,488	£15,560	£-72	£699	£5,945	£3,464	2.7	194	27
31/03/19		£15,388	£15,363	£25	£649	£6,293	£3,533	2.8	196	18
31/03/18		£14,771	£14,878	£-107	£797	£6,124	£3,599	2.9	188	0
31/03/17		£13,828	£13,955	£-127	£579	£6,208	£3,565	3.1	184	0
02/04/16		£13,976	£13,253	£724	£535	£5,937	£3,733	3.4	184	0
31/03/15		£15,430	£12,360	£3,069	£559	£5,562	£3,700	3.6	163	0
31/03/14		£12,812	£12,935	£-123	£535	£2,378	£1,091	1	163	0
31/03/13		£13,409	£13,723	£-315	£531	£2,391	£1,277	1.1	170	0
31/03/12		£12,748	£12,308	£440	£443	£1,938	£1,590	1.6	171	0
02/04/11		£14,641	£14,296	£345	£428	£1,498	£1,466	1.2	175	0
31/03/10		£12,753	£12,602	£152	£365	£1,153	£1,108	1.1	177	0
31/03/09		£13,148	£13,399	£-251	£414	£1,001	£943	0.8	168	0
31/03/08		£12,878	£12,164	£714	£358	£1,253	£1,183	1.2	177	0
31/03/07		£11,610	£11,692	£-82	£293	£539	£539	0.6	167	0
01/04/06		£10,987	£10,774	£213	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£11,103	£10,768	£335	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£11,276	£10,908	£368	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £250,000-£300,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 3.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 28 years

www.brb.org.uk

info@brb.org.uk

01212453525

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
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	£8,711,194
Garfield Weston Foundation	£600,000
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	£40,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£20,000	26/10/2022	Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into their core business as a major cultural institution in ....more Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into their core business as a major cultural institution in West.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£20,000	14/07/2021	Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into their core business as a major cultural institution in ....more Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into their core business as a major cultural institution in West.
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£600,000	05/02/2021	Weston Culture Fund
DCMS - BRB NPO 201822
£8,036,194	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 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 where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
DCMS - Birmingham Royal Ballet Recovery Fund
£500,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Birmingham Royal Ballet CRF2
£175,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Royal Ballet
£15,100	27/06/2018 36	Dance Track
Nesta - Arts, heritage, sports and faith
£215,000	19/07/2017
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Royal Ballet
£17,100	31/10/2016 12	Dance Track
Birmingham City Council - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£525,000	01/04/2016	BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET; Arts and culture;

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How is it governed?

Trustees (14)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-77

ANTHONY MICHAEL VINCENT COOMBS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

BARRY ALLEN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor

CHRISTINE ONDIMU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Bank Manager

COUNCILLOR DESMOND HUGHES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: City Councillor

DEBORAH JACQUELINE SPENCE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Finance Director

HEMMA PATEL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor

IAN SQUIRES Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Executive Search

JEANETTA LAURENCE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

MAVERINE DUFFY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Journalist And Broadcaster

MICHAEL JOHN ELLIOTT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive

SIR DAVID JOHN NORMINGTON GCB (Chair) Appointed: 2018

SANDRA ELIZABETH CROSSLEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ballet Tutor And Performing Arts Assessor

SHIREENAH INGRAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

SIR LUKE RITTNER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Arts Administrator

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/02/1997, number: 1061012
Registered at Companies House on 19/02/1997, number: 03320538

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

20/03/2024 - Asset transfer in from DRAMALINK THEATRE COMPANY
12/04/2024 - Asset transfer in from ENSIX CHARITABLE TRUST

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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
Investment
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR20: 2 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from DRAMALINK THEATRE COMPANY on 20/03/2024
Asset transfer in from ENSIX CHARITABLE TRUST on 12/04/2024

Main office

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
THORP STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B5 4AU

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF BALLET, DANCE, MUSIC AND DRAMA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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