Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 9

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
Future income +5
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 13

PEOPLE UNITED

People United is a participatory arts charity and creative laboratory. We use the arts to grow kind, caring and engaged communities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
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
31/03/23		£160	£223	£-63	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£175	£193	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£211	£165	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£212	£216	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£245	£236	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£357	£355	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£340	£328	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£384	£343	£42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£159	£194	£-35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14	*	£166	£169	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£143	£137	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£146	£97	£49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£152	£159	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£106	£97	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 16 years
(18 years as a company)

www.peopleunited.org.uk

info@peopleunited.org.uk

07955 373270

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Kent,

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

Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£225,000
DCMS	£127,300
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	£25,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Futures of Care 2
£165,000	09/05/2023 36	People United is a socially engaged participatory arts charity based in East Kent. This grant will support Futures of Care 2 which evolves People United’s care-centred practice, building on partnerships and pilot projects developed over the last ....more People United is a socially engaged participatory arts charity based in East Kent. This grant will support Futures of Care 2 which evolves People United’s care-centred practice, building on partnerships and pilot projects developed over the last three years, including co-commissioning and a collaboration with Kent Refugee Action Network.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - People United
£25,000	04/04/2023	Awardee of the Third Edition of the Award for Civic Arts Organisations
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£60,000	15/07/2020 3	Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - People United
£127,300	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.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Positive Narratives - sharing the role of arts in communities
£150,000	18/07/2016 36	Core support to enable People United to build on their extensive knowledge around arts participation, to test new ways of working, to expand their impact nationally and to continue to evaluate and share what they learn about how the arts can create ....more Core support to enable People United to build on their extensive knowledge around arts participation, to test new ways of working, to expand their impact nationally and to continue to evaluate and share what they learn about how the arts can create the conditions for kindness and social change.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People United
£55,000	11/07/2016 24	Towards core costs to support the organisation's work enabling participation as a tool for social change in communities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People United
£60,000	15/06/2011	Towards the salary of the chief executive.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People United
£30,000	23/10/2008 12	Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the chief executive and a contribution to disseminating and extending ongoing projects.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-57

BENJAMIN CHARLES PAYNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant / Writer

EMMA SOPHIE WILCOX (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Producer And Arts Consultant

MICHELE BRIDGET GREGSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ceo/General Secretary

NATALIE MELTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Creative Director

PETER DYER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/11/2008, number: 1126729
Registered at Companies House on 14/08/2006, number: 05905050

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
Paying staff
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

14 returns made; AR14: 17 days late,

Main office

c/o Kreston Reeves LLP
37 St. Margarets Street
CANTERBURY
Kent
CT1 2TU

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING, DEVELOPINGAND FACILITATING PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY USINGTHE ARTS AND SPORT, CREATED TO DEVELOP AND INCREASE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SKILLSAMONGST CHILDREN AND ADULTS SO AS TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE EXPRESSIONS OFKINDNESS, EMPATHY AND TOLERANCE TOWARDS AND AMONGST PEOPLE WITHIN SCHOOLS,ORGANISATIONS AND THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY.(B) TO CARRY OUT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH INTO THE BEHAVIOURS OF KINDNESS,EMPATHY AND TOLERANCE AND THE VALUES AND ACTIONS RELEVANT TO THEM, INCLUDINGTHEIR POTENTIAL TO IMPACT UPON THE BEHAVIOUR OF PEOPLE AS CITIZENS AND THEDISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFIED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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