Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

RURAL ARTS NORTH YORKSHIRE

Rural Arts delivers a programme of visual and performing arts & media skills and training to communities where cultural services are poor or none existent and in areas of deprivation. Rural Arts also coordinates ON Tour, offering a programme of professional live theatre to village/community venues across North Yorkshire.
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:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

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£604£467£137£12£938£78420.2155
31/03/22£526£394£132£12£801£75122.9412
31/03/21£628£391£237£12£668£59218.2410
31/03/20£353£283£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£311£358£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£369£402£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£380£333£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£407£323£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£289£309£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£393£377£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£302£357£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£310£337£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£318£329£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£289£310£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£292£336£-45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£337£357£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£369£395£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£411£377£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£548£418£129n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£366£310£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 34%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 20.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 14.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 24 years

www.ruralarts.org

info@ruralarts.org

01845526536

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Riding Of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Redcar And Cleveland,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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£338,989
National Lottery Community Fund£255,000
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rural Arts
£150,000 06/12/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Heart and Craft' project, providing a wellbeing programme for over-70s in rural North Yorkshire communities.
DCMS - Investment funds
£5,000 22/11/2022
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 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Re-establishing and growing Heart & Craft
£255,000 29/04/2022
The funding will be used to re-establish and expand their Heart & Craft project; a creative wellbeing programme for isolated older people in rural communities in North Yorkshire. The aim is to improve health and wellbeing reduce loneliness and ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Rural Arts North Yorkshire
£3,000 09/12/2021
Art workshops for those affected by poor mental health, older people and people who are unemployed
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£45,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£90,061 11/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
CAF - Grant to Rural Arts North Yorkshire
£4,000 23/04/2020
3
Grant to Rural Arts North Yorkshire to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - Securing the Future of Rural Arts
£115,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Rural Arts - survive and thrive
£55,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 17/01/2020
FUSE - Arts development programme for North Yorkshire's young people with learning disabilities
National Lottery Community Fund - All Together
£9,680 19/09/2019
12
The funding will be used for young people with special educational needs to create a piece of theatre which will then be performed to the wider community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Heart and Craft
£72,550 08/02/2019
24
This funding is for a project aimed at building relationships between older and younger people in rural communities. The project is designed to help combat social isolation and loneliness by bringing together people to take part in arts sessions, ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Generation Exchange
£4,969 12/12/2017
To encourage young people to develop and deliver IT/Arts/Performance workshops for older residents in the area.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rural Arts
£60,000 14/12/2015
36
Towards a programme engaging young people in rural areas with culturally diverse performance through creative residencies and curtain-raiser performances.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Rural Arts North Yorkshire
£14,900 14/01/2015
Thirsk’s Military Heritage in the Digital Age
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rural Arts
£15,900 28/02/2013
support 42 people with complex needs including women experiencing domestic abuse, Homeless young people and People with mental health issues living in the Broadacres Housing Projects by using artists and art as the method of supporting them.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-59
  • ANNA KELNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • GAYE KIRBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Development And Strategy
  • OLIVER O'SHEA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Theatre Director
  • RUTH MIDDLETON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: N/A
  • SARAH DENNISON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/06/2000, number: 1081007
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/03/2000, number: 03949494
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

RURAL ARTS
OLD COURTHOUSE
4 WESTGATE
THIRSK
YO7 1QS

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF RURAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND PRIMARILY IN THE AREA OF NORTH YORKSHIRE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM, PRIMARILY NORTH YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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