Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 11

UNITY THEATRE

Providing an annual programme of professional and community arts activities, including shows, artform & artist development, workshops, training, advocacy & mentoring.

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

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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		£478	£648	£-170	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£492	£631	£-139	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£786	£493	£293	£15	£2,033	£1,916	46.6	40	0
31/03/20		£506	£655	£-148	£23	£1,741	£1,741	31.9	29	0
31/03/19		£615	£707	£-92	£33	£1,889	£1,879	31.9	28	31
31/03/18		£818	£1,245	£-427	£763	£1,313	£43	0.4	16	0
31/03/17	*	£1,257	£1,038	£219	£790	£1,742	£263	3	19	0
31/03/16		£582	£659	£-76	£440	£1,523	£275	5	14	0
31/03/15		£555	£649	£-94	£520	£1,600	£328	6.1	11	0
31/03/14		£595	£573	£22	£467	£1,694	£381	8	10	0
31/03/13		£614	£579	£35	£466	£1,671	£361	7.5	10	0
31/03/12		£650	£657	£-6	£543	£1,636	£316	5.8	12	0
31/03/11		£713	£708	£5	£599	£1,643	£295	5	10	0
31/03/10		£743	£762	£-19	£641	£1,638	£262	4.1	10	0
31/03/09		£876	£872	£3	£781	£1,657	£258	3.5	13	0
31/03/08		£679	£733	£-55	£75	£1,654	£232	3.8	11	0
31/03/07		£690	£621	£70	£543	£1,709	£223	4.3	11	0
31/03/06		£554	£565	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£530	£434	£96	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£403	£392	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Balance Sheet History

Established: 28 years

www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

info@unitytheatre.co.uk

01517096502

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Liverpool City,

Who it helps

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	£380,062
Esmee Fairbairn	£116,575
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Unity Theatre
£3,000	26/09/2023	To repair and seal the roof on their building to prevent future water damage and leaks.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Unity Theatre
£3,750	30/01/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000	12/03/2021	Weston Culture Fund to Regular Grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Unity Theatre
£112,825	12/05/2020 36	Towards project costs for a new talent development programme tackling the lack of producing talent in Liverpool by equipping local artists and producers with the skills they need to develop high-quality work and grow sustainable careers.
DCMS - Unity Theatre NPO Application
£277,005	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 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 access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Unity Theatre
£65,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Unity Theatre Liverpool
£38,057	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-74

ALUPATHA PERERA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Mental Health First Aid Instructor

DANIEL SEBUYANGE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Musician

ELIZABETH EDWARDS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Human Resources

HELEN JEFFERY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Freelance Project Manager

LAURA CHARLOTTE TELLWRIGHT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Management

LAUREN MOONEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Theatre Dramaturg And Producer

LAURENCE CLARK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Playwright, Screenwriter And Stand-Up Comedian

PETER MEARNS (Chair) Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Artist

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/05/1997, number: 1062463
Registered at Companies House on 11/03/1997, number: 03333987

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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR17: 0 days late,

Main office

Unity Theatre
1 Hope Place
Liverpool
L1 9BG

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE ART OF DRAMA, DANCE, MIME AND MUSIC.TO PROVIDE AND MANAGE A THEATRE.TO PROMOTE ALL OTHER OBJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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