Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ST PAULS SINFONIA 

St Paul's Sinfonia, an orchestra of some 40 young musicians, gives regular concerts and carries out educational work with schools and the disadvantaged in London Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£49£52£-3n/an/an/an/an/a90
30/06/22£60£61£-1n/an/an/an/an/a60
30/06/21£24£22£2n/an/an/an/an/a60
30/06/20£48£57£-9n/an/an/an/an/a60
30/06/19*£40£37£3n/an/an/an/an/a40
30/06/18£23£28£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£34£34£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£43£42£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15*£51£44£7£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14*£51£48£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£25£25£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£17£13£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£12£15£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.stpaulssinfonia.com

pknight87@hotmail.com

07834185250

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 90 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
Department for Work and Pensions - LE RAIN FLORIST
£2,511 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/06/2010, number: 1136232
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/01/2010, number: 07114950
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
  • 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
Filing Record
13 returns made; AR19: 133 days late, AR15: 23 days late, AR14: 2 days late,
Main office

16 Park Road
Leybourne
WEST MALLING
ME19 5HP

Objectives

TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND THE PROVISION OF MUSIC WORKSHOPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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