Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

STEPPING OUT THEATRE

Founded in 1997 and based in Bristol, we are the country's leading mental health theatre group. We produce a wide range of plays on mental health themes. We are open to people who have used mental health services and their allies. The group offers mental health service users the opportunity to work alongside people with professional experience of writing, directing and acting,
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
28/02/23£120£161£-42n/a
28/02/22£197£182£15n/a
28/02/21£83£119£-35n/a
29/02/20£196£131£64n/a
28/02/19£100£164£-64n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

http://www.steppingouttheatre.co.uk/index.php

info@steppingouttheatre.co.uk

07790980688

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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£80,000
Tudor Trust£60,000
Quartet Community Foundation£44,990
The Foyle Foundation£40,000
People's Health Trust£22,683
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
DCMS£9,990
Allen Lane Foundation£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 30/04/2024
towards a full production of 'The Pharmacist's Story', by Lyudmila Tymoshenko, a new Ukrainian play, based on Gogol's 'Diary of a Madman'
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£1,500 29/02/2024
3
Toward the running costs of this group that creates live theatre with mental health service users and disabled people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£3,500 11/10/2023
2
Toward workshops, rehearsals and performances for the group's Christmas show for the benefit of people experiencing mental health difficulties.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for mental health theatre
£5,000 18/01/2023
Stepping Out is the UK's leading mental health theatre company. They produce a wide range of work on mental health themes and are open to people who have used mental health services and their allies. This grant underpins Stepping Out’s core ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 29/11/2022
towards the 'Theatre of War' project bringing contemporary Ukrainian theatre writing to the UK
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£5,000 26/10/2022
For workshops and performances producing new theatre writing from Ukraine for people experiencing mental health difficulties.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for mental health theatre
£75,000 19/07/2021
Stepping Out is the UK's leading mental health theatre company. They produce a wide range of work on mental health themes and are open to people who have used mental health services and their allies. This grant underpins Stepping Out’s core ....more
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£6,000 02/07/2021
£6,000 single grant towards the Coming Up for Air project at this mental health arts organisation in Bristol
Tudor Trust - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£60,000 18/06/2021
24
over two years towards core costs at a charity and theatre company supporting people with poor mental health in Bristol
People's Health Trust - The Pump Up the Volume Project
£22,683 01/06/2021
18
This 18-month project is an extension of an existing scheme run by Stepping Out Theatre. It delivers music workshops and a range of other musical activities to long-term mental health service users in Bristol, including small group tuition and the ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 28/04/2021
towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 26/03/2021
Coming Up For Air
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£9,990 08/09/2020
To develop and explore Stepping Out Theatre’s online programme and to extend the range of accessible materials in preparation for our 2021 season of events.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,990 08/09/2020
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
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Stepping Out Theatre
£25,000 20/01/2020
Second year payment of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards the running costs of a project using theatre and performance to support people with mental health problems in Bristol and surrounding area, and London.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Inner Critic - Workshops with Holly Stoppit
£3,000 23/07/2019
7
A contribution toward the cost of delivering a set of drama workshops for the benefit of individuals affected by mental health issues.
People's Health Trust - The Pump Up The Volume Project
£27,453 16/05/2019
This two-year project provided two weekly music workshops and a range of other musical activities including rehearsing, performing and recording music at various locations around inner-city Bristol. The groups support long-term mental health service ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding
£90,000 26/01/2017
36
Towards the core costs of the theatre company's work using performing arts as an instrument for recovery, personal development and social change for mental health service users.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

  • DANANN MCALEER Appointed: 2019
  • DR SUSAN CHAMBERS Appointed: 2020
  • EMMA STADON Appointed: 2019
  • GEOFFREY INNOLES MR Appointed: 2023
  • MARIA FALZETTI Appointed: 2023
  • MICHAEL HINDLE Appointed: 2024
  • RAVI KULLAR Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/07/2018, number: 1179310
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

13 Creedwell Orchard
Milverton
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA4 1JY

Objectives

1) TO RELIEVE THE CONDITIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THEATRE.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH IN ORDER TO RAISE THEIR AWARENESS, BY PRODUCING PLAYS WHICH DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE AND COUNTER NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS AND THEIR ALLIES TO DEVELOP THEIR CREATIVE TALENTS, BUILD SUPPORTIVE NETWORKS AND PRODUCE HIGH QUALITY THEATRE ON MENTAL HEALTH THEMES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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