Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

YOUNG PEOPLE'S PUPPET THEATRE

The charity runs puppet projects for the benefit of young people, teaching them artistic, technical and performance skills, and causing their self confidence and ability to operate within a team to be strengthened.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23£148£133£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22£140£107£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£64£65£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£51£53£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£70£60£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18*£52£38£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£56£46£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£61£102£-41n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.yppt.org.uk

admin@yppt.org.uk

07914830730

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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
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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£163,500
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£28,084
Postcode Places Trust£25,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
DCMS£10,000
The Funding Network£5,189
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£4,573
The Fore£4,525
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 06/11/2023
24
The puppet project
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Scaling up social impact puppetry projects in schools
£9,500 18/01/2023
Young Peoples Puppet Theatre (YPPT) run large-scale projects for children and young people which use the arts to develop creative and life skills. This grant supports YPPT to grow its capacity in response to an increased demand from schools. Through ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Social impact puppetry project North Herts
£3,084 06/10/2022
11
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
Postcode Places Trust - Social impact puppetry projects
£25,000 27/08/2022
Funding helped 600 children build vital life skills to support their recovery from the social impact of COVID-19 & the cost of living crisis
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Social impact puppetry projects across Herts
£10,000 27/05/2022
11
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Young People's Puppet Theatre
£4,500 16/12/2021
Towards project cost to fully fund providing 180 children with high-quality materials to make a puppet they are incredibly proud of, and memories and skills to last a lifetime.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Intergenerational puppetry projects in St Albans
£4,573 11/11/2021
Using stories of St Albans’ history, 60 children aged 9-10 at Mandeville Primary School in St Albans will design the puppets and sets for two complex marionette shows.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Scaling up social impact puppetry projects in schools
£140,000 19/07/2021
Young Peoples Puppet Theatre (YPPT) run large-scale projects for children and young people which use the arts to develop creative and life skills. This grant supports YPPT to grow its capacity in response to an increased demand from schools. Through ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Social impact puppetry projects for disadvantaged children in Ipswich
£2,000 29/06/2021
To run a creative puppetry project in a primary school in Ipswich in an area of disadvantage.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Social impact puppetry projects helping disadvantaged children build sorely-needed key life skills
£5,000 15/06/2021
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
Suffolk Community Foundation - Social impact puppetry projects for disadvantaged children in Ipswich
£1,029 14/06/2021
To run a creative puppetry project in a primary school in Ipswich.
The Funding Network - Life-changing puppetry projects for young and old
£5,189 03/03/2021
Unite older people and children from the same community in a COVID-safe creative way to create a show that will be performed and livestreamed for hundreds of people.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Rebuilding resilience and engagement with learning after COVID-19
£10,000 27/08/2020
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 17/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£14,000 10/06/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
£4,525 01/05/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Young People's Puppet Theatre, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Learning creative and life skills through puppetmaking and puppetry
£4,700 14/08/2019
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Learning through puppetry
£38,000 07/08/2018
15
Young People’s Puppet Theatre (YPPT) offers year-long creative puppetry workshops to schools. Through this grant, YPPT will work with Year 6 pupils in four primary schools in Watford and Cambridge to enable them to design and make puppets and ....more
The Fore - Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
£19,000 01/08/2018
24
Young People's Puppet Theatre uses puppetry as a means of teaching creative and performance skills to young people, focusing on schools characterised by ethnic divides, low academic performance, or communities which do not traditionally value ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
£3,425 20/07/2018
10
St Albans intergenerational puppet project
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/07/2018
Puppetry projects for young people
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Primary school projects 2018-19
£4,750 24/05/2018
10
Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Young People's Puppet Theatre
£3,030 10/05/2018
10
Breachwood Green community puppetry project
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-63
  • ANDREW COOPER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Magician, Storyteller And Prop Maker
  • BEVERLEY KORANTENG-AITKINS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Solicitor
  • CAROLINE PIGGOTT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Development Coordinator
  • JAMES EDWARD CHARLES MARKS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Teacher
  • NISHA ALLEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Homemaker
  • ROSEMARY MATHEWS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Hr
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/02/2016, number: 1165649
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/04/2015, number: 09544208
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR18: 2 days late,
Main office

Trestle Arts Base
Russet Drive
ST. ALBANS
Hertfordshire
AL4 0JQ

Objectives

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, MATERIALS AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PUPPET-MAKING AND PRODUCTION OF PUPPET SHOWS, PLAYS AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES; AND3.1.2 THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR PUPPETRY, THEATRE, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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