Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 4

No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 3

EBONY STEELBAND TRUST

Ebony delivers a variety of steelband workshops and community projects for disadvantaged young people, particularly those from the Caribbean community. The organisation is based in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea where there is the opportunity to work with young people to direct them away from crime and anti-social behaviour and towards living successful and purposeful lives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board composition appears to be rather static

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£142	£144	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22	*	£162	£147	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	85
31/03/21		£67	£61	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/20		£173	£173	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/19		£159	£154	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/18		£122	£120	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£100	£98	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£102	£117	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£108	£92	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£75	£73	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£92	£98	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£117	£119	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£98	£107	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£111	£107	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£121	£150	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£210	£182	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£167	£157	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£134	£132	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£157	£149	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

http://www.ebony-steelband-trust.co.uk

services@ebony.org.uk

07860914825

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

City Of Westminster, Kensington And Chelsea, Newham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 volunteers

Who's supporting 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

John Lyon's Charity	£23,900
DCMS	£20,000
CAF	£2,100

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Ebony Steelband Trust
£15,000	18/11/2021	St Peter's Primary and Kensington Aldridge Academy Steel Pan
DCMS - CRF20: Ebony Steelband Trust
£20,000	14/10/2020	Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Ebony Steelband Trust
£8,900	21/08/2020 4	COVID-19: LCR Wave 3 - Band Running Costs
CAF - Grant to Ebony Steelband Trust
£2,100	08/07/2020 3	Grant to Ebony Steelband Trust to support the organisation through COVID19

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-73

PATTRINA QUASHIE-FERGUSON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Children'S Services Manager

DAVID CURTIS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Local Government Officer

JUSTIN THOMAS Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Accountant

LYNDA ROSESENIOR-PATTEN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Arts Consultant

IAN COMFORT (Chair) Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Ceo, Other trusteeship: CARNIVAL VILLAGE TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/07/2003, number: 1098408
Registered at Companies House on 10/10/2002, number: 04558912

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 1 days late, AR22: 15 days late, AR17: 54 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR12: 137 days late, AR10: 163 days late, AR09: 35 days late, AR08: 0 days late, AR07: 37 days late, AR05: 71 days late,

Main office

YAA ASANTEWAA ARTS & COMMUNITY CTR
1 CHIPPENHAM MEWS
LONDON
W9 2AN

Objectives

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CARIBBEAN MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS OF THAT REGION AND THEIR TEACHING AND PRACTICE AND THE PROMOTION AND PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF A CHARITABLE NATURE WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH ARTS BETTER KNOWN AND UNDERSTOOD BY THE PUBLIC;(2) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH PARTICULAR ASSISTANCE SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE WORK OF THE CHARITY IN ORDER THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LONDON

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