Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

ART & SOUL 

Art & Soul supports the mental health & wellbeing of the public through the Arts. We hold weekly classes, outreach workshops and exhibitions for adults, children and families.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.artandsoul.org.uk

info@artandsoul.org.uk

07941107851

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UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£56£47£9n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£71£57£15n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/21£25£24£2n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£19£22£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£27£21£6n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£16£22£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Upon Thames, Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
DCMS£10,000
The Baring Foundation£8,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Art & Soul - the Bigger Picture
£10,000 27/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver access to arts workshops for adults with mental health issues living in South-West London. The project aims to support people that are struggling with poor mental ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Art & Soul
£30,000 24/02/2022
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£30,000 (£10,000 x 3) of core funding over three years to support the development and delivery of an arts programme for over 1,000 people of all ages with mental health issues in South-West London.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 30/09/2020
"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 ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Art & Soul
£8,000 14/09/2020
Art & Soul is seeking funding to broker new sustainable partnerships and deliver creative workshops for young people with mental health issues.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/06/2017, number: 1173268
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

42 Kew Green
Kew
TW9 3AZ

Objectives

ART & SOUL (CIO) WILL FURTHER THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING NEEDS, THROUGH THE USE OF THE ARTS (ARTS THAT PROMOTE AND PROVIDE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR THEIR BENEFIT, THROUGH PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS OF THEIR WORK AND THAT PROMOTE GREATER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH EXPERIENCES OF MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH/WELLBEING ISSUES AND SOCIAL ISOLATION LIVING IN WEST AND SOUTH WEST LONDON).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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