Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -1

NORFOLK COMMUNITY ARTS LIMITED

Norfolk Community Arts is a Norwich-based arts participation and engagement charity. Our mission is dedicated to improving lives and communities through arts and culture. Our vision is to create world where arts and culture are integral to everyone's lives, and the people and communities we work with can live creative, healthy lives, and fulfil their potential, regardless of background.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/08/23		£286	£417	£-131	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	52
31/08/22		£328	£476	£-148	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	48
31/08/21		£584	£469	£115	£0	£362	£242	6.2	21	24
31/08/20?		£489	£653	£-164	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	43
31/03/19		£761	£422	£339	£0	£410	£371	10.6	12	36
31/03/18		£391	£386	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£369	£345	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£342	£360	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£377	£378	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£248	£317	£-69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£346	£257	£90	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£250	£327	£-77	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£406	£459	£-53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/10	*	£475	£564	£-90	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/09		£474	£241	£233	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/08		£137	£121	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/07		£115	£147	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/06	*	£116	£120	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
04/04/05	*	£71	£101	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£129	£126	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 23 years

www.norfolkcommunityarts.org.uk

admin@norfolkcommunityarts.org.uk

01603 760529

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
Recreation

GiG Classification

Sports activities

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£35,000	29/07/2022 24	Sistema in Norwich
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£35,000	16/07/2021 24	Sistema in Norwich
DCMS - NORCA & Sistema in Norwich Recovery Project
£125,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - NORCA & Sistema in Norwich Recovery Project Phase 2
£62,500	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to NORCA and Sistema in Norwich
£250	12/06/2019	Grant through the Heart of the Community Fund used to cover the costs of their orchestral performances in 2019.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 62-71

DR JOHN PACKMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive

MARK JONATHAN HAZELL (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Arts Marketing Consultant

RUTH BULLARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/12/2001, number: 1089916
Registered at Companies House on 29/08/2001, number: 04278192

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; AR14: 6 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 5 days late, AR06: 10 days late, AR05: 69 days late, AR04: 59 days late,

Main office

MARTINEAU MEMORIAL HALL
21 COLEGATE
NORWICH
NR3 1BN

Objectives

1. To advance the education of the public in the arts (including music, dance, visual art, computer art, creative writing and theatre);2. To promote the beneficial effects of arts participation for health;3. To promote the use of the arts for community capacity building, and urban and rural regeneration;4. To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended, by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for the performance, rehearsal and practice of and other participation in the arts;5. To further such other charitable purposes as the Charity may from time to time decide.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORWICH AND NORFOLK

Data Sources

NORFOLK COMMUNITY ARTS LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

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