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Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

FRIENDS OF BRADFORD ART GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS 

Encourage and promote the education of the people of Bradford in the appreciation of history culture art science and architecture with reference to the activities of public museums maintained by the city.To provide money for the purchase by the trustees, of articles suitable for exhibitions or inclusion in the permanent collections of the museums.
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Positives:

  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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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
31/12/22£7£10£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/21£4£6£-2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20£10£8£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19£25£28£-3n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/18£24£27£-3£0£0£0n/a010
31/12/17£26£21£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£21£23£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£20£26£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£19£22£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£16£15£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£22£16£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£19£14£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10*£21£23£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£15£15£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£16£18£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£13£15£-2£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years

www.bradfordmuseums.org

01274431212

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 62-81
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2005, number: 1108562
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/02/2005, number: 05373709
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR10: 117 days late,
Main office

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Lister Park
BRADFORD
West Yorkshire
BD9 4NS

Objectives

TO ENCOURAGE PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL IN THE APPRECIATION OF HISTORY, CULTURE, ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES MAINTAINED BY THE SAID BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL AND FOR SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED OR DEEDS EXECUTED WITH THEIR UNANIMOUS CONSENT DECLARE

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRADFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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