Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +2
    Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

    WHITTONSTALL COMMUNITY BAND

    Community band
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
    • 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
    31/12/23£2£2£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/22£3£3£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/21£0£1£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/20*£2£2£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/19£5£5£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/18*£8£5£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 7 years
    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    • Recreation
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Durham, Northumberland,
    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Whittonstall Community Band
    £6,635 03/04/2023
    Bandmaster fees and replacement of music stands
    County Durham Community Foundation - Funding for additional sheet music scores for the community band
    £500 16/02/2023
    To purchase additional sheet music scores for the community band.
    Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Whittonstall Community Band
    £1,005 02/12/2021
    The fees for a band master to continue concerts in Tynedale over the next 12 months

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • ANDREW SPENCER (Chair) Appointed: 2016
    • CATHERINE THEOBALD Appointed: 2020
    • CLAIRE SPENCER Appointed: 2015
    • JO HOLMES Appointed: 2015
    • STEVE PARDUE Appointed: 2020
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/09/2017, number: 1174685
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    Filing Record
    6 returns made; AR20: 4 days late, AR18: 65 days late,
    Main office

    THE OLD VICARAGE
    WHITTONSTALL
    CONSETT
    DH8 9JN

    Objectives

    1) TO PROMOTE PUBLIC APPRECIATION IN THE ART OF MUSIC BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER MUSICAL ACTIVITIES.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS IN THE PLAYING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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