Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 15

SWINDON DANCE

To advance education for the public benefit by the promotion, development and presentation of dance performancesTo advance education by the provision of classes, training, workshops, performance opportunities and educational programmes locally , regionally and nationally

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
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 £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£748	£858	£-109	£2	£310	£127	1.8	21	0
31/03/22		£729	£815	£-86	£0	£420	£226	3.3	19	0
31/03/21		£847	£629	£218	£0	£506	£219	4.2	27	0
31/03/20		£975	£941	£34	£1	£288	£125	1.6	27	0
31/03/19		£902	£921	£-19	£0	£254	£96	1.2	12	12
31/03/18	*	£913	£834	£79	£3	£273	£153	2.2	22	0
31/03/17		£838	£763	£75	£4	£194	£55	0.9	19	0
31/03/16		£830	£768	£62	£2	£245	£150	2.3	19	0
31/03/15		£826	£820	£6	£62	£172	£104	1.5	8	0
31/03/14	*	£886	£934	£-48	£41	£166	£100	1.3	8	0
31/03/13		£928	£991	£-62	£13	£214	£144	1.7	8	0
31/03/12		£900	£968	£-68	£8	£276	£201	2.5	8	0
31/03/11		£977	£865	£112	£6	£344	£228	3.2	9	0
31/03/10		£800	£827	£-27	£7	£233	£190	2.8	8	0
31/03/09		£904	£834	£70	£6	£260	£209	3	9	0
31/03/08		£825	£804	£22	£6	£190	£170	2.5	12	0
31/03/07		£731	£734	£-4	£39	£168	£153	2.5	12	0
31/03/06		£569	£528	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 41%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 8.5

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 19 years

www.swindondance.org.uk

info@swindondance.org.uk

01793 601700

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Recreation

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
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

DCMS	£315,319
The Foyle Foundation	£44,500
BBC Children in Need	£500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£24,500	30/04/2024	towards a professional performance project consisting of four events showcasing new works by young professional artists
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Swindon Dance
£500	20/10/2022 0	‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	16/09/2021	towards the Digital Platform for artists and audience (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Swindon Dance
£209,994	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Swindon Dance - Recovery Fund
£105,325	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Wiltshire Community Foundation - SALTO juniors
£5,000	26/02/2019	Swindon Dance works with a wide variety of sections of the community through dance. The grant will help develop a 3-year dance project for children with learning disabilities.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Swindon Dance
£30,000	22/11/2018 36	This project will deliver dance lessons for children and young people with learning disabilities. This will increase their self-esteem, social skills and physical mobility.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 24-61

CLARE THOMAS-POWELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Manager

HOLLY FRANCES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Freelance Dancer

ROBERT JANDY (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Senior Manager

RICHARD CHAPPELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director

ROBERT JAMES BRIDGER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Dancer

TOBY KEWEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Consultant, Channel Planning

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/09/2005, number: 1111476
Registered at Companies House on 31/05/2005, number: 05467343

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

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
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

18 returns made; AR18: 36 days late, AR14: 87 days late,

Main office

REGENT CIRCUS
SWINDON
SN1 1QF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION, DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENTATION OF DANCE PERFORMANCES AND THE PROVISION OF CLASSES, TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND BY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE LOCALLY IN SWINDON, REGIONALLY IN THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND NATIONALLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

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