Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

SAMLING INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Samling Institute for Young Artists provides training, masterclass and performance opportunities, including opera, for young classical singers and pianists through two closely linked programmes. It offers a residential Artist Programme for emerging young professionals and an Academy for young people at an earlier stage of their development.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is predominantly male

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£357£307£50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£311£323£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£290£304£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£286£170£116n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£295£287£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£285£300£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£410£329£81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£191£272£-81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£290£216£74n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£209£245£-36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£248£243£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£183£214£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£151£226£-74n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£282£256£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£358£221£137n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£253£335£-82n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£379£207£172n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 25%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Established: 19 years

www.samling.org.uk

enquiries@samling.org.uk

01434602885

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
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
The Shears Foundation£175,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
The Foyle Foundation£40,000
Esmee Fairbairn£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to The Samling Institute for Young Artists
£7,500 17/01/2024
TASK fund donation towards the Samling Futures project
The Shears Foundation - Samling Institute for Young Artists
£90,000 18/10/2023
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy (2023/24, 2024/25 & 2025/26)
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 18/09/2023
to underpin work with Samling Academy and to launch Samling Singing Schools
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Samling Institute for Young Artists
£500 26/01/2023
General charitable purposes
The Shears Foundation - Samling Institute for Young Artists
£40,000 04/10/2022
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy 2022/23 – Building for the Future
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 02/09/2022
24
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy 2022/23 and 2023/24
The Shears Foundation - Samling Institute for Young Artists
£45,000 19/10/2021
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy: Post-pandemic Recovery Programme
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 23/04/2020
towards core costs during the year end March 2021 (including support of delivery of an online programme for emerging classical singers and piano accompanists in response to the Coronavirus situation) (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 21/02/2020
24
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy 2020 and 2021
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/06/2018
Samling Artist Programme and Samling Academy
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Samling
£50,000 10/09/2008
24
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of a general manager and sustainability planning consultancy costs to expand beneficiary numbers and geographic reach and to improve the financial sustainability of this organisation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-79
  • AUDREY MACNAUGHTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • DR ANTONY DAVID TRAPP Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Company Director
  • GEORGE ALEXANDER EVANS-THOMAS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • JOHN ANTHONY PENNIE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Solicitor
  • MR CHRIS ROBSON Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • RUPERT DAVID TYLER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Investment Manager
  • SIR DAVID ROBERT BELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/11/2005, number: 1112032
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/09/2005, number: 05576907
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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 expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR09: 33 days late, AR07: 16 days late,
Main office

Samling Institute for Young Artists
Community Centre
Gilesgate
Hexham
NE46 3NP

Objectives

(1) TO EDUCATE, DEVELOP, IMPROVE, ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE GENERALLY THE APPRECIATION OF THE ART OF SCIENCE AND MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL), THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS, MASTER CLASSES, RECITALS, EXHIBITIONS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHARITY BY ITS DIRECTORS SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME;(2) TO PROVIDE COACHING AND GENERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR TALENTED YOUNG INDIVIDUALS SELECTED BY THE DIRECTORS TO FURTHER THEIR KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERTISE IN ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL) THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS;(3) TO PROVIDE FOR AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISIONS OF EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, CLASSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO FURTHER AND INCREASE THEIR KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL) THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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