Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

STANLEY ARTS

Stanley Arts aims to be one of South London's premiere arts and performance venues, providing our local community with a vital home for cultural expression and discovery. As a radically inclusive space we seek to foreground under-represented voices, providing artists of colour and LGBTQIA creatives with a platform to reach out to audiences across South London and beyond.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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£757£799£-42£24£37£370.52021
31/03/22£681£646£36£17£78£781.51929
31/03/21£494£476£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£304£337£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£260£265£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£230£199£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£199£215£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£138£111£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£59£30£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 98%
Liabilities/Income: 218%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 0.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -13 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 11 years

www.stanleyarts.org

info@stanleyarts.org

0208 251 0184

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • LGBTQ+ support
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth,
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
DCMS£298,353
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£250,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£235,710
Greater London Authority£61,500
National Lottery Community Fund£9,990
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - The Summit – Thriving through Culture
£41,500 10/11/2023
As part of Baring Foundation’s funded Thriving through Culture programme to co-design and deliver a two day young Londoners mental health and culture summit as part of London Borough of Culture, Croydon.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Stanley Arts and Croydon Borough of Culture
£250,000 06/03/2023
Stanley Arts is a radically inclusive arts and performance venue seeking to foreground under-represented voices, providing artists of colour and LGBTQ+ creatives with a platform to reach out to audiences across South London and beyond. Stanley Arts ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - South Norwood Green Coronation Get-together
£9,990 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to facilitate a large-scale Coronation celebration for the community. This project aims to bring the community together to build new relationships learn new skills and reduce loneliness and isolation.
Greater London Authority - Greening Stanley Arts
£20,000 02/12/2022
This project will create a micro green space in the public forecourt of the grade II-listed Stanley Arts building in South Norwood. The project will train eight volunteers from communities that are often underrepresented in the horticulture sector ....more
DCMS - Capital Investment Programme
£200,000 04/03/2022
The Capital Investment Programme is an open access programme to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Stanley Arts
£235,710 09/12/2021
Inclusive Heritage at Stanley Halls in Croydon
DCMS - South Norwood High Streets Cultural Programme - Main Grant
£54,863 01/04/2021
Programme of Cultural activities and projects to engage with the local community and link with the High Street Heritage Action Zone capital programme.
DCMS - Stanley Halls
£10,268 29/01/2021
This project comprises a roof survey & internal condition survey and a structural engineers survey & report.
DCMS - Stanley Halls
£3,422 29/01/2021
This project comprises a roof survey & internal condition survey and a structural engineers survey & report.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£29,800 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
  • ABDULLA ZAMAN Appointed: 2024
  • ANTONIA BLOCKER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Curator
  • CLAIRE EVANS Appointed: 2021
  • DR ALMIRO DE ANDRADE SANTOS (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • EM WILLIAMS Appointed: 2021
  • GARETH MAIN Appointed: 2023
  • HOLLY VICKERS Appointed: 2024
  • KELSEY WILLIAMS Appointed: 2024
  • ROBERT DEAN JOSEPH BERKELEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Policy Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/02/2014, number: 1155680
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
9 returns made; AR15: 4 days late,
Main office

STANLEY ARTS
12 SOUTH NORWOOD HILL
LONDON
SE25 6AB

Objectives

The objects of the CIO are:1.1 For the public benefit, to preserve the buildings known as Stanley Halls; and 1.2 For the public benefit, including particular reference to members of socially and/or economically disadvantaged communities, to advance, promote, encourage, educate and develop appreciation and enjoyment of, access to, and participation in the arts, culture and heritage.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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