Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 7

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Future income +5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 5

OBLIQUE ARTS

Oblique Arts is an artist led non profit making organisation. We enable communities to work with us and provide spectacular and innovative multi media urban installations and digital art outcomes. We specialise in working with at risk young people and hard to reach communities. Our projects empower our participants to explore their creative potential through high quality visual arts projects.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
Why are there only 3 trustees?
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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		£50	£62	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£30	£54	£-24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£81	£41	£40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£76	£61	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£59	£65	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£66	£56	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£34	£22	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£16	£24	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£33	£41	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£46	£26	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13	*	£38	£35	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£4	£11	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 13 years

www.oblique-arts.com

mail@obliquearts.co.uk

01223719590

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
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

DCMS	£51,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,320
The Funding Network	£18,554
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation	£14,350
Co-Operative Group	£1,593

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - GRT (Gypsy Roma Traveller) Working Together
£9,600	03/10/2023	towards an advocacy and support project for members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities to enable them to secure housing, education and benefits
National Lottery Community Fund - GRT (Gypsy; Roma; Traveller) Art & Advocacy Project
£9,470	07/07/2023	The funding will be used to expand there advocacy support services for the Gypsy Roma and traveller community. The project will help people with a variety of support including helping with access to health education evictions literacy food bank ....more The funding will be used to expand there advocacy support services for the Gypsy Roma and traveller community. The project will help people with a variety of support including helping with access to health education evictions literacy food bank access and benefit guidance.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Oblique Arts Creative Curiosity Walks
£1,593	22/10/2022	We'd like to offer Creative Curiosity Walks in nature, for the physical and mental wellbeing of vulnerable adults. A lead and support tutor will address isolation with art and social engagement.
The Funding Network - Strategic Planning for Sustainability
£11,557	19/05/2022	Oblique Arts works with communities to deliver innovative arts-based outcomes. We provide unique creative workshops with communities to inspire and educate. We advocate for change using the arts.
National Lottery Community Fund - Art & Nature: Wellbeing connections
£9,850	19/11/2021	The funding will be used to support people with mental health issues and those who are isolated living alone or elderly through weekly themed community walks that explore nature and creativity. The walks will be guided by an artist/tutor and all ....more The funding will be used to support people with mental health issues and those who are isolated living alone or elderly through weekly themed community walks that explore nature and creativity. The walks will be guided by an artist/tutor and all participants will be encouraged to create pieces of art. .
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Oblique Arts
£4,750	15/05/2020 6	to offer a phone advocacy helpline (3 days per week - for one year) for 750 vulnerable people in Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities, and support for access to services, benefits and provision they would not otherwise access. This includes ....more to offer a phone advocacy helpline (3 days per week - for one year) for 750 vulnerable people in Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities, and support for access to services, benefits and provision they would not otherwise access. This includes education support and planning, books and links with education providers.
DCMS - Re-opening with resilience
£51,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Funding Network - Core Funding for Social Change
£6,997	23/03/2020	We aim to enrich the lives and enhance the capabilities of the disadvantaged groups we work with, giving them pleasure, hope and a stronger place in society.
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Travellers - fulfilling our potential
£9,720	24/01/2018 12	This project will provide workshops for people in travelling communities who are not in formal education, where they will take part in creative activities and learn literacy skills, as well as receiving support to access better opportunities.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Oblique Arts
£27,300	28/03/2017	Oral Histories: Roma and Traveller Communities in Cambridge
Tudor Trust - Grant to Oblique Arts
£24,000	10/01/2014 36	over three years towards the salary of a part-time administrator at an arts project which works with hard-to-reach communities in Cambridge and London

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

AMANDA GAWTHROPE Appointed: 2022

JULIAN PICKLES Appointed: 2022

PETR TORAK Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/06/2011, number: 1142653

Gift Aid

NOT 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 expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

12 returns made; AR13: 65 days late,

Main office

14 COCKBURN STREET
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 3NB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN,IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT LONDON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK

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