Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 3
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

ARTS TAUNTON 

Operating in Taunton Deane and surrounding areas, Arts Taunton encourages provision of the arts for public benefit, through influencing, collaborating and facilitating.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently

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
30/11/22£74£73£1n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/11/21£106£83£23n/an/an/an/an/a20
30/11/20*£79£83£-4n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/11/19?£105£100£5n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/18£37£29£9£0£0£0n/a00
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

artstaunton.co.uk

hello@artstaunton.co.uk

07814096596

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Somerset,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Backstage Trust - Programme Costs grant
£10,000 16/11/2022
Tyca Performing Arts Festival in Taunton
Somerset Community Foundation - Empowering disadvantaged young people to create their own production for the Taunton Youth Culture and Arts Festival
£3,000 10/10/2022
Grant to Arts Taunton
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Youth arts and wellbeing hub
£4,000 23/12/2020
5
Youth arts and wellbeing hub

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • DONALD RICE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Writer And Producer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/07/2017, number: 1174014
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/11/2015, number: 09878922
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 6 days late,
Main office

Cooper Associates Accountants Ltd
39-44 St. James Street
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA1 1JR

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN TAUNTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA:(A) THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, RAISING AWARENESS, CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND MAKING GRANTS; AND(B) THE ARTS VOLUNTARY SECTOR BY PROMOTING COLLABORATIVE WORKING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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