Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

COMMONWORD ENTERPRISES LTD

We are a writing development agency running workshops, literature events, seminars, running competitions and occasional events. As part of our activities, from time to time we publish physical books averaging 2 per year and e-books averaging 2 per year.
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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • 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£107£110£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£150£152£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£96£124£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20*£106£154£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£103£163£-60n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£241£195£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£189£171£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£191£165£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£147£119£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£185£177£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years
(18 years as a company)

www.cultureword.org.uk

admin@cultureword.org.uk

01618323777

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Salford City, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£159,112
DCMS£95,981
National Lottery Community Fund£18,756
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Commonword Enterprises Ltd
£159,112 04/07/2023
Mapping Manchester: Recovering the City’s Radical Small Press History
National Lottery Community Fund - Through the darkness
£9,536 25/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a series of 16 creative writing workshops for women and non-binary people from migrant and refugee communities culminating in a sharing event and a publication. The activity will be facilitated by female and ....more
DCMS - NPO 18-22
£95,981 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that 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 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Coordinate
£9,220 26/02/2020
11
The organisation will deliver workshops for people from marginalised groups offering improved communication and support and advocacy, with the aim of reducing social isolation and creating support communities.
DCMS - NPO 18-22
£94,247 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - NPO 18-22
£94,247 01/04/2018
To promote Arts & Culture throughout the UK
DCMS - NPO 18-22
£23,562 01/04/2018
To support NPO 18-22
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Commonword Enterprises Ltd
£69,900 07/02/2018
Commonword Community Writing Archive Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Silence Will Not Protect You
£8,126 18/10/2017
12
The funding will be used to establish an empowerment, development and advocacy group to allow women who are seeking asylum, are refugees, or who experience domestic violence to explore and voice their experiences. The group will use drama, poetry ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Identity
£259,284 14/11/2014
35
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Identity
£102,419 09/06/2010
36
This project in South Manchester targets young people aged 14 to 20, from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, to attend writing workshops run by established writers to learn how to write and perform poetry and participate in poetry slams (competitions). ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-68
  • BETHAN GALLIERS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Health Development Coordinator
  • DR SIVAMOHAN VALLUVAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: University Lecturer
  • JULIA DAVIS Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Project Manager
  • LAURA STEWART (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Owner Manager Diverse Children'S Bookshop
  • MARCIA ANN HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Fitness Instructor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2013, number: 1152499
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/07/2006, number: 05870623
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR20: 9 days late,
Main office

Commonword Enterprises Ltd
Bridge 5 Mill
22A Beswick Street
Ancoats
MANCHESTER
M4 7HR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF CREATIVE WRITING, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS; TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE; AND TO CO-OPERATE WITH OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS HAVING SIMILAR OBJECTS AND TO ESTABLISH, PROMOTE OR ASSIST SUCH CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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