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
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION

Improve the quality of life and promote equality through social inclusion & integration of beneficiaries in need by reason of their age, health or disabilities, in particular but not exclusively by providing or assisting with the provision of creative arts and heritage-led educational and recreational activities, helping to reduce isolation & improve physical & mental health & well-being.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/05/23£409£385£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/22£303£334£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£248£218£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£212£211£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19£195£217£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/18£199£246£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/17£201£284£-84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/16£304£301£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/15£434£212£222n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/14£198£143£55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/13£167£155£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/12£142£147£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/11£150£157£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/10£135£121£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/09£106£98£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/08*£80£80£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/07?*£54£89£-36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/06?*£90£71£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/05?*£93£74£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04£59£54£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 22 years

www.escapearts.org.uk

info@escapearts.org.uk

01789 532110

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Warwickshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£96,370
DCMS£85,336
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
CAF£7,277
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Stratford Community Garden - The Colony
£9,917 10/02/2023
The funding will be used to create a new community garden to be developed by youth members and aims to enable these vulnerable young people to practise creativity and give them a sense of ownership.
National Lottery Community Fund - Create Space - Escape on the Go!
£76,453 26/01/2023
This funding will be used to continue and expand the delivery of arts-based support sessions and activities for the benefit of various groups across Warwickshire. It will work with a range of people and groups and will focus on supporting those who ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/11/2022
Escape Arts Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - PLASTIC PLANET - TIME FOR CHANGE
£10,000 09/04/2021
The group will use the funding to raise awareness of environmental issues through arts activities. This will bring people together and help protect the local environment.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£85,336 30/06/2020
"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 Escape Community Art in Action Ltd
£7,277 01/05/2020
3
Grant to Escape Community Art in Action Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating Community Wellbeing
£49,945 19/02/2019
36
This funding will help to scale up the group's creative health work and liaise directly with Public Health to provide an evidence base for commissioned cultural health interventions in Warwickshire. This will create opportunities for people of all ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Cowshed
£9,492 15/10/2018
12
This funding will be used to modify the facilities at the centre, increasing the capacity of the organisation to serve its community.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Community Heritage Recruits
£3,867 22/09/2017
12
Grant to Escape - Community Art in Action
National Lottery Community Fund - Escape Odyssey - Spaces to Discover, Create and Achieve
£396,422 28/07/2014
61
Not Available
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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: 29-76
  • KATE DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • LOUISE SUZANNE SCHMITZ Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Manager
  • NICHOLAS MCCARTHY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Community Mentor
  • PAUL TAYLOR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Collections Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
  • SAMANTHA WARNER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Barrister
  • SHARON MARIE WALPOLE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • STEWART WILLIAM BELL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/05/2003, number: 1097718
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2002, number: 04441388
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
20 returns made; AR08: 61 days late, AR07: 118 days late, AR06: 358 days late, AR05: 179 days late,
Main office

The Old Slaughterhouse
Sheep Street
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
CV37 6EE

Objectives

1. To improve quality of life and promote equality through the social inclusion and integration of beneficiaries who are in need by reason of their age, health inequalities, mental health conditions, physical or learning disabilities, in particular but not exclusively by providing or assisting with the provision of creative arts and heritage-led educational and recreational activities, helping to reduce isolation and improve physical and mental health and wellbeing.2. To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the county of Warwickshire and surrounding area (hereinafter called ‘the area of benefit’)

Defined Area of Benefit:

STRATFORD UPON AVON AND SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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