Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GALLERY EDUCATION

engage aims to promote greater access to and understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts through gallery education, by engaging with the public, artists, galleries and educators.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • Why are there 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

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£466£537£-71n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£642£517£125£73£248£1162.760
31/03/21£497£482£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£452£575£-122n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£596£625£-29£118£230£1011.980
31/03/18£489£503£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£575£603£-28£111£272£150390
31/03/16£564£598£-34£80£300£1603.270
31/03/15£658£538£120£27£339£1543.470
31/03/14£544£506£38£17£219£1333.260
31/03/13£585£524£61£17£181£1122.660
31/03/12£402£469£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£680£667£13£16£186£1212.260
31/03/10£733£720£12£14£173£1101.870
31/03/09£910£961£-51£11£160£1041.370
31/03/08*£1,048£985£63£53£211£1071.370
31/03/07*£824£846£-22£11£148£660.9100
31/03/06£767£800£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£749£752£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£382£486£-104n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.engage.org

info@engage.org

02077295858

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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£309,034
Nesta£106,155
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£28,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Postcode Community Trust£8,130
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Community Trust - Project Funding
£8,130 30/06/2023
Funding facilitated four events for freelance artists and professionals, supporting them to deliver inclusive participatory practice.
Nesta - AC01547
£72,155 01/12/2022
1
HARP (Health, Arts, Research, People) Nesta Cymru programme grant to Wales Arts Health and Wellbeing Network Grant Ref AC01547
Nesta - AC01295
£34,000 01/02/2021
Y Lab - Arts and Health Wales programme grant to Wales Arts Health and Wellbeing Network Grant Ref AC01295
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Supporting artists, professionals and freelancers to adapt
£28,500 21/10/2020
5
Engage was founded in 1989 by gallery education professionals. They promote access and enjoyment in the visual arts through gallery and museum education. This grant supports Engage in providing urgent opportunities for artists, professionals and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 24/07/2020
GenerationART 2 : Artists of Tomorrow
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022 (SSO)
£234,034 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
DCMS - Engage Cultuer Recovery Fund
£50,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Engage: resilient to support the sector
£25,000 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 (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-71
  • ANDREW LAWSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Human Resources
  • ANGHARAD PALIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor And Notary Public
  • BERNARD HAY Appointed: 2022
  • CHRISTOPHER DAVID Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • DAMIEN MCGLYNN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Manager, Charity Sector
  • DR VIVIAN CHING Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • FFION RHYS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Visual Arts Manager And Curator
  • JANIE NICOLL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Freelance Visual Artist
  • JULIAN NETTEL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant
  • LAURA GABE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Fundraiser
  • MARIANNA MICHAEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Freelance
  • PETER RIGG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Student
  • PROFESSOR ANITA TAYLOR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Artist And Educator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/2001, number: 1087471
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/04/2001, number: 04194208
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 0 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR05: 2 days late, AR04: 107 days late,
Main office

Nat Assoc for Gallery Education
Friars House
Manor House Drive
COVENTRY
CV1 2TE

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY VISUAL EDUCATION, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND WORKSHOP FACILITIES IN GALLERY EDUCATION. (B) TO UNDERTAKE PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF GALLERY EDUCATION AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULT OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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