Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

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

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 17

THEATRE ARTS ACTION TRUST

To promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and an appreciation of the art of drama and other associated performing arts and to provide facilities by way of a building and to maintain its use for the inhabitants of Colchester and the local area

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22	£207	£219	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	97
31/12/21	£208	£185	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	110
31/12/20	£98	£132	£-33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	104
31/12/19	£174	£192	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	104
31/12/18	£151	£120	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	53
31/12/17	£101	£160	£-59	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£263	£106	£157	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£101	£130	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£90	£106	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£88	£89	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£78	£86	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£89	£91	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	£87	£84	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£91	£93	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08	£86	£96	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	£123	£89	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	£100	£84	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	£74	£67	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	£74	£61	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 25 years

www.headgatetheatre.co.uk

secretary@headgatetheatre.co.uk

01206366000

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
97 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
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Theatre Arts Action Trust
£3,000	18/04/2023	to support a weeklong festival of Performing Arts, Food and Cultural sharing in Colchester
DCMS - CRF-2021
£60,175	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-78

BEN ISAAC WILLS (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Project Manager

JANE MARION BLACKBURN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

KAREN DAWN KING Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

MR THOMAS MICHAEL ALASDAIR Appointed: 2017

MICHAEL WILLIAM POOLE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

PATRICIA ANN GAUDIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/07/1999, number: 1076399
Registered at Companies House on 19/03/1999, number: 03737107

Gift Aid

NOT 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

19 returns made; all on time

Main office

Headgate Theatre
14 Chapel Street North
COLCHESTER
CO2 7AT

Objectives

3.1 to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and an appreciation of the art of drama and other associated performing arts in all their respective aspects;3.2 in the interests of social welfare to provide facilities by way of a building and to maintain its use for the inhabitants of Colchester and its surrounding villages and neighbourhood for the purposes of the furtherance and promotion of amateur theatre, educational drama and other associated performing arts, such building to be used predominantly by amateur organisations;3.3 to offer opportunities and facilities to teachers of drama and the arts to practice their vocational activities in Colchester and elsewhere in Colchester and the environs;3.4 to advance education by such means as the Trustees think fit by encouraging the general public, particularly those in Colchester and the surrounding area, schools, special interest groups, people with disabilities and the disadvantaged to take an active interest in a wide variety of theatre, drama and the arts generally;3.5 in the interests of social welfare, to provide or to assist in the provision of facilities in Colchester or within the surrounding area for recreation; other leisure-time occupations; and the advancement of health, education, citizenship and community development within the meaning of the Charities Act 20113.6 such other charitable purposes as the Trustees shall see fit as being for the general promotion of theatre and the arts in Colchester and the surrounding area

Defined Area of Benefit:

ESSEX

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