Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 12

POET IN THE CITY

Our vision is to: 1) Transform the live poetry sector through inspiring events; 2) Make live poetry accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds; 3) Deliver live poetry across the country.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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		£234	£352	£-118	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22		£490	£475	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/21		£335	£176	£159	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/20		£290	£379	£-89	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/19		£399	£390	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/18		£216	£216	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£269	£212	£57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£178	£168	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£206	£201	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£197	£196	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£149	£143	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£155	£145	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£145	£163	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£143	£136	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£186	£189	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£171	£167	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.poetinthecity.co.uk

info@poetinthecity.co.uk

0207 014 2812

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

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

DCMS	£199,971
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£32,000	22/10/2021	To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	08/07/2021	towards core costs and the activities programme over the next twelve months
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	25/06/2021	Growing ambitions for live poetry, diverse talent development and commissioning with communities
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018/2022
£68,313	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 ....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 - Poet in the City
£66,711	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Poet in the City
£32,947	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Community Fund - Poet in the City Producers
£10,000	30/01/2019 12	The project aims to develop organisational skills in young people and a platform to speak out against inequality.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-64

CHARLOTTE COLE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Development Manager

LUCY DUNDAS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Communications

STEVEN PAUL ABBOTT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Artist Management And Live Booking Agent

CRAIG MICHAEL WESTWOOD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Communications Director

ZERRITHA BROWN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Government Officer, Other trusteeships: IJAD, CAMDEN SPARK,

MARY-ALICE STACK Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeship: NEW CONTEMPORARIES (1988) LIMITED,

SHAHRUKH BHATTY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Accountant, South Bank Employers Group, Other trusteeship: POETRY LONDON LTD,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/12/2006, number: 1117354
Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2006, number: 05819413

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

16 returns made; AR17: 3 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR13: 149 days late, AR08: 56 days late,

Main office

1 Rawstorne Place
LONDON
EC1V 7NL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF POETRY, AND THE USE OF POETRY IN PROMOTING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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