Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 4

FAST FAMILIAR

The objects for which the Charity is established are To advance education for the public benefit by the promotion of the arts, in particular but not exclusively by:Creating experimental and playful theatre, art and performances;developing new modes of communicating with audiences through a range of media; andcreating participatory training and education experiences

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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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		£131	£134	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£149	£139	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£147	£130	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£132	£106	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£56	£52	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	*	£91	£69	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£26	£28	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£75	£65	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15	*	£32	£28	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£67	£65	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£31	£26	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£22	£25	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£22	£22	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£24	£28	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£7	£0	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08	*	£21	£21	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.fastfamiliar.com

hello@fastfamiliar.com

07870166041

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Provides financial or material assistance

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

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

Nesta	£104,970
DCMS	£32,400
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Nesta - AC01498
£104,970	31/03/2022 18	Centre for Collective Intelligence Design programme grant to Fast Familiar (FanSHEN) Grant Ref AC01498
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000	30/09/2020 6	Formerly fanSHEN, Fast Familiar make creative interventions which are playful, participatory and socially-engaged. They combine theatre experience with use of new technologies to create blend ....more Formerly fanSHEN, Fast Familiar make creative interventions which are playful, participatory and socially-engaged. They combine theatre experience with use of new technologies to create blend performance, installation and games. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.
DCMS - Fast Familiar
£32,400	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Nesta - AX00010
£19,990	28/03/2019 11	Centre for Collective Intelligence Design programme grant to fanSHEN Grant Ref AX00010
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - The Intelligence Collective
£10,000	28/02/2019	The Intelligence Collective
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Intelligence Collective
£10,400	29/01/2019 7	The Intelligence Collective is an experience combining playable theatre, technology, and neuroscience to build young people’s capacity for thinking together, improving emotional resilience and ....more The Intelligence Collective is an experience combining playable theatre, technology, and neuroscience to build young people’s capacity for thinking together, improving emotional resilience and ability to disagree civilly. This grant will support the co-development of an interactive digital story based on a popular Young Adult novel with a group of young people to improve emotional resilience and capacity for thinking together.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-50

CHRISTINE TWITE Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Academic

NADEEM AZHAR Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Solicitor

SARAH HEENAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Project Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/2007, number: 1120667
Registered at Companies House on 29/03/2007, number: 06191989

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

16 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 1 days late, AR08: 25 days late,

Main office

The Boathouse
River Gardens
Purley on Thames
READING
RG8 8BX

Objectives

To advance education for the public benefit by the promotion of the arts, in particular but not exclusively by:• Creating experimental and playful theatre, art and performances;• Developing new modes of communicating with audiences through a range of media; and• Creating participatory training and education experiences through performance and the arts.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS