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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

PORTS FEST 

The Portsmouth Festivities aims to give the City of Portsmouth its own distinctive festival. It provides a high quality and diverse programme of events and activities which capture imaginations, celebrate diversity and reflects on the heritage value of Portsmouth. It has developed a reputation for providing cultural activities with professional artists in the City's unique venues.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 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
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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
31/08/23£83£90£-7n/an/an/an/an/a37
31/08/22£58£81£-23n/an/an/an/an/a37
31/08/21£26£44£-18n/an/an/an/an/a33
31/08/20£60£29£31n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/19*£97£101£-4n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/18£80£65£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/17£84£87£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£85£74£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£116£109£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£101£100£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£122£103£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£118£95£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£236£240£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/10£95£93£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/09£192£195£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/08£63£66£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/07£50£47£3£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.portsmouthfestivities.co.uk

festivities@pgs.org.uk

02392681390

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Financial support to the poor
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Portsmouth City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 37 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Portsmouth Festivities
£9,900 05/02/2020
Submerged - Portsmouth Young Carers explore the Mary Rose

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-70
  • DAVID WICKES (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/06/2006, number: 1114695
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/05/2005, number: 05447367
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR19: 22 days late,
Main office

The Portsmouth Grammar School
1 High Street
Old Portsmouth
Hampshire
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Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; IN PARTICULAR TO EXTEND AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF LEARNING AND CULTURE IN ALL ITS FORMS BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE AREA OF PORTSMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

AREA OF PORTSMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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