Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

STOCKTON ARTS CENTRE

ARC is an organisation working from its venue to enhance the well-being of the whole community of Stockton and the Tees Valley, through arts and creative learning activity, through widening opportunities to experience and participate in the arts, and through partnership with other organisations.
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:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£2,185£2,427£-242£307£1,269£3371.7737
31/03/22£2,074£2,102£-28£226£1,511£3371.9686
31/03/21£1,988£1,496£492£103£1,539£6445.2687
31/03/20£2,254£2,396£-142£291£1,048£3801.9688
31/03/19£2,098£2,327£-229£296£1,190£5743681
31/03/18£2,747£2,274£473£284£1,419£7053.7600
31/03/17£2,629£2,022£607£0£1,411£2541.5580
31/03/16*£2,189£1,981£208£0£815£1961.2540
31/03/15£2,046£1,826£220£5£617£510.3420
31/03/14£1,120£1,145£-25£4£397£-21-0.2350
31/03/13£1,207£1,189£18£6£422£-23-0.2430
31/03/12£1,151£1,101£51£6£404£-43-0.5410
31/03/11£1,185£1,194£-9£194£354£-51-0.5420
31/03/10£1,270£1,231£38£240£363£-49-0.5470
31/03/09*£1,208£1,084£125£289£324£-45-0.5500
31/03/08*£947£1,118£-171£145£380£3804.1250
31/03/07*£946£962£-16£129£551£1572350
31/03/06£884£868£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£795£1,012£-218n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£1,512£743£769n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 27%
Reserves/Spending: 1.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 22 years

www.arconline.co.uk

info@arconline.co.uk

01642525181

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Stockton-on-tees,
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£830,203
Garfield Weston Foundation£240,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£180,000
Esmee Fairbairn£22,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Community-centred arts
£180,000 06/03/2023
ARC Stockton is an arts centre that uses arts and cultural activity to support local communities. This grant will support ARC to develop a new model for community-centred arts programming that delivers a range of performances and participatory ....more
DCMS - Investment Funds
£13,000 17/12/2021
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
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Stockton Arts Centre
£3,000 25/11/2021
Creative/performance workshops for asylum seekers, refugees and adults who have experienced homelessness, drug and/or alcohol addiction
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£146,230 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£240,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ARC Stockton Arts Centre Ltd
£22,500 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£311,723 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 - ARC Stockton Culture Recovery Fund
£239,500 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - ARC CRF2
£119,750 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£306,091 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£306,091 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£76,523 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 12/12/2017
Young People's Activity 2018/19
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A Theatre Trip for Every Child
£60,000 28/11/2016
24
ARC, in partnership with The Albany (Deptford), will explore whether a free ticket scheme for primary aged schoolchildren, which removes the cost barriers for schools and parents, can provide every child with the same early access to the arts, ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ARC Stockton Arts Centre Ltd
£180,000 11/02/2016
48
Towards enabling ARC to continue its artist and audience development work, influencing practice across the North of England and beyond.
Spirit of 2012 - Cultural Shift
£250,000 08/07/2015
A programme to integrate grass roots and professional disability art into a cultural arts venue in Stockton and disseminating learning and practice. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ARC Stockton Arts Centre Ltd
£40,250 06/08/2008
36
Towards Project costs Towards salary and project costs to develop a theatre group aimed at young asylum seekers and refugees aiming to increase their skills and reducing exclusion.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-57
  • DAN MALLAGHAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Freelance Theatre Maker
  • DR KATE CRADDOCK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Festival Gift Director
  • JOHN MCCANN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director Of Finance & Operations
  • MARIA CROCKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Theatre Director
  • MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Programme Manager - Harnessing The Power Of Commun
  • NINA WHITE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Researcher
  • SHARUNA SAGAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Journalist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/01/2003, number: 1095460
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/11/2002, number: 04591795
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR16: 0 days late, AR09: 206 days late, AR08: 4 days late, AR07: 224 days late,
Main office

ARC
60 DOVECOT STREET
STOCKTON-ON-TEES
TS18 1LL

Objectives

TO: PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND POPULAR CULTURE, PRIMARILY AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE TEES VALLEY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

TEES VALLEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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