Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

ARTS TOGETHER 

Arts Together brings social and creative opportunities to isolated, frail and vulnerable older people, whose physical and mental health is at risk. By being part of a supportive group with an arts focus, older people have the opportunity to be creative and active, to learn new skills, make choices and discover new friends.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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
  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£95£114£-19n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£69£89£-20n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/21£121£71£50n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/20£104£84£20n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£94£86£8n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/18£49£82£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£87£72£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£85£61£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£54£57£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£35£40£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£28£28£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£32£23£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£12£22£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£32£24£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£21£19£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£14£16£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£22£21£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£18£19£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years

www.artstogether.co.uk

info@artstogether.co.uk

01380 590095

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Poverty relief
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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
Wiltshire Community Foundation£42,968
National Lottery Community Fund£19,970
Masonic Trust£9,500
Lloyds Bank Foundation£6,012
Cheshire Community Foundation£5,000
The Fore£5,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£2,000 01/12/2022
To continue to provide 6 inspiring and life enhancing art groups, and essential well-being support, for the most isolated and vulnerable older people in our Wiltshire communities.
National Lottery Community Fund - essential support
£9,970 14/10/2022
Funding will be used for 6 groups of elderly people to take part in arts activities supporting them with carers accessible venues and transport to and from the project. The project aims to reduce ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£4,000 30/09/2022
Towards the salaries of two Hub Managers who provide support services for older people
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£1,000 16/11/2021
A contribution towards our wellbeing service including out of hours telephone support to deal with crises at home but mostly to offer a listening ear when spirits are low
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£10,000 24/05/2021
To help fund their remote service providing support throgh creative activities to elderly and vulnerable people over 2 years
National Lottery Community Fund - New Hybrid Services
£10,000 25/03/2021
12
The organisation will use the funding to provide online and COVID-19 safe group art activities for vulnerable older people.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 26/01/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£12,468 30/11/2020
1
To provide equipment and training to enable this arts provision for elderly and isolated people to move online
Cheshire Community Foundation - Digital Connections
£5,000 12/11/2020
Arts Together works with frail, disabled, isolated older people, using stimulating and sometimes challenging arts activities in small social groups, to counteract the harm to their health and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£820 15/10/2020
purchase IT equipment and office furniture for a charity supporting vulnerable older people in Wiltshire
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£9,000 14/10/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Arts Together
£6,012 23/07/2020
Grant to Arts Together meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Arts Together
£5,000 22/04/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Arts Together, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£2,500 09/04/2020
Arts Together provide high quality creative arts activities for vulnerable older people. The grant will contribute towards additional salary costs to provide remote support during COVID19.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Contribution to Arts Together's running costs for 3 years
£15,000 28/10/2019
Arts Together provide high quality creative arts activities for vulnerable older people. The grant will contribute to salary costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/06/2018
Arts Together core costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£42,000 22/03/2018
36
to fund 2 Hub Managers to reach the most isolated older people in Wiltshire and connect them to a weekly arts activity group and to other sources of support
National Lottery Community Fund - Supported arts activities for frail, isolated older people
£9,255 17/01/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide arts activities for older people as a means to re-engage them in group activities, reduce isolation and encourage their sense of confidence and achievement.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£15,000 27/04/2016
36
Arts Together aims to improve the health and wellbeing of frail, isolated older people by devising a varied programme of professional arts projects to provide the interest, stimulation, social ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Costs of transport for the hard to reach to attend arts projects
£500 24/02/2016
Towards the costs of transport so hard to reach elderly and isolated people can attend arts projects.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£14,996 07/10/2015
12
the salaries of a Manager and a Communications and Accounts Manager, and consultant, project and volunteer costs
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£30,000 10/07/2015
24
Arts Together aims to improve the health and wellbeing of frail, isolated older people by devising a varied programme of professional arts projects to provide the interest, stimulation, social ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£4,000 15/05/2015
12
Arts Together aims to improve the health and wellbeing of frail, isolated older people by devising a varied programme of professional arts projects to provide the interest, stimulation, social ....more
The Fore - Grant to Arts Together
£18,385 31/08/2013
36
Grant funded the expansion of its services to three new areas in Wiltshire, which was the first step in further increasing the reach of their service.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Arts Together
£12,000 30/06/2011
the Older Person's Drama Project - group, organisation, finance, admin and web costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/05/2005, number: 1109432
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

PO BOX 4380
PEWSEY
SN8 9GA

Objectives

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE ELDERLY WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF CREATIVE ART ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. WILTSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, DORSET, SOMERSET AND BANES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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