Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 12
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

THE KHAYAAL THEATRE COMPANY

The principal activity of the company continued to be that of producing theatre, storytelling, film and theatre-in-education programmes inspired by Muslim and interfaith literature, culture, art, heritage and contemporary experience.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
31/07/23£101£135£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22£177£137£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£164£156£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20£120£88£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£104£102£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/18£88£90£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/17£76£83£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/16£45£51£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/15*£50£43£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/14£64£41£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/13£33£38£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/12£18£50£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/11£80£137£-57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/10£310£248£61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/09*£249£205£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/08*£109£108£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/07£28£35£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/06£44£35£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/05*£58£60£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/04*£17£14£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years
(26 years as a company)

www.khayaal.co.uk

post@khayaal.co.uk

01582535840

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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
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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£207,500
Esmee Fairbairn£105,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to THE KHAYAAL THEATRE COMPANY
£105,000 27/03/2024
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Towards core costs to support Khayaal's work using storytelling and stagecraft to foster greater intercultural and interfaith dialogue, understanding and engagement between Muslim communities and the wider world
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/07/2022
Theatre without Walls
National Lottery Community Fund - Drama Academy: Luton
£10,000 13/05/2022
The funding will be used to launch a drama academy aimed at engaging BAME Muslim children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project aims to offer new creative opportunities and helping broaden their horizons raise aspiration and ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Khayaal 25 Luton - Drama Academy Project
£30,000 18/03/2022
Taking Muslim stories into other faith schools therefore broadening knowledge and encouraging good integration and understanding.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£60,000 10/11/2021
This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
DCMS - Covid-19 Recovery Project
£35,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Covid-19 Recovery Project
£75,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Recovering from Covid-19
£37,500 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Khayaal Theatre Company
£20,000 10/09/2013
Towards costs associated with developing new audiences and increasing integration and cultural diversity in theatre in the UK.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 49-64
  • AYESHA GUL MIAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Content Designer
  • FAHIM QURESHI (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Cultural Services Director
  • GALIB VIRANI Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Business Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2003, number: 1100005
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/07/1998, number: 03597083
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR15: 0 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR08: 9 days late, AR05: 12 days late, AR04: 85 days late,
Main office

PO Box 2523
2 Primrose Close
Luton
LU3 9BN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:(I) ALL ASPECTS OF DRAMATIC ART INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, DANCE AND PAINTING;(II) THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF ART BY THE PROVISION OF A THEATRE AND THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCES;(III) THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF ISLAMIC ART, CULTURE AND LITERATURE;(IV) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND SERVICES;(V) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(VI) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OR CREED (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY ENCOURAGING THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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