Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 5
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED

We operate museums, galleries and performing arts venues in Sunderland and deliver city-wide projects, events and performances that engage hundreds of thousands of people each year in visual arts, heritage, performance and learning opportunities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • 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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
31/03/23£2,486£2,923£-438£1,166£200£1000.45440
31/03/22£2,177£2,501£-324£0£638£4492.2435
31/03/21£2,222£1,480£742£0£962£2091.7150
31/03/20£1,669£1,920£-251£1£220£-10-0.11125
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 98%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 39.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 82%
Liabilities/Income: 37%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 50%
Reserves/Spending: 0.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 5 years
(8 years as a company)

http://www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/

accounts@sunderlandculture.org.uk

01915155555

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sunderland,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,970
DCMS£32,800
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£18,050
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Sunderland Culture Limited
£1,500 23/03/2023
The Tyne and Wear High Sheriff district award for a young people's theatre group
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Sunderland Culture Limited
£9,800 10/02/2023
Celebrate different amplified
DCMS - Cultural Compacts
£14,800 08/02/2023
Compacts are partnerships designed to support the local cultural sector and enhance its contribution to development, with a special emphasis on cross-sector engagement beyond the cultural sector itself and the local authority.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Sunderland Culture Limited
£750 12/01/2023
Supporting a young people's theatre group in washington to perform plays and develop other theatrical skills
DCMS - Investment funds
£8,000 19/04/2022
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Sunderland Culture Limited
£2,500 30/09/2021
Establishing a new creative group at Arts Centre Washington for young people aged 13-19
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - the Tyne and Wear High Sheriff District Award (Sunderland)
£1,250 25/03/2021
the Tyne and Wear High Sheriff District Award (Sunderland)
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - delivering a digital storytelling project with young carers from Sunderland to enable them to share what it means to be a young carer
£1,500 11/02/2021
delivering a digital storytelling project with young carers from Sunderland to enable them to share what it means to be a young carer
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£150,970 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - the activities of a group of young people who curate their own cultural events, work with artists and learn new skills
£750 28/01/2021
the activities of a group of young people who curate their own cultural events, work with artists and learn new skills
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 22/09/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-79
  • ANDREW ROBERT MACKAY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
  • BETH JONES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Councillor
  • DAVID ROY SANDBACH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • GILLIAN ELIZABETH CALLAGHAN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Manager In Further Education
  • IAN STEWART KERSHAW Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • JANE MARGARET EARL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Non-Executive Director
  • KUMARESWARADAS RAMANATHASAS Appointed: 2022
  • MARIE MICHELLE DAURAT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Director
  • MARIE NIXON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • MICHAEL YOUNG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Deputy Vice-Chancellor
  • NEIL SMITH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Solicitor
  • PETER JAMES MCINTYRE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director Local Government
  • SHEREE IRENE RYMER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/06/2019, number: 1184073
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/04/2016, number: 10098742
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE
LIBERTY WAY
SUNDERLAND
SR6 0GL

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS OF PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, POETRY READING, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, HANDICRAFTS, LITERATURE, GLASS-MAKING, HISTORY, FILM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ARTS (THE ARTS) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1 ENCOURAGING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS AND BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS, PROVIDED THAT THE PROMOTION OF SUCH FESTIVALS AND EVENTS IS UNDERTAKEN SOLELY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;2 DEVELOPING NEW AND INNOVATIVE WAYS OF DELIVERING THE ARTS;3 PARTICIPATION IN AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF, CULTURAL OPERATIONS, VENUES AND ACTIVITIES PRIMARILY IN THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND TO ENSURE MAXIMUM BENEFIT AND RETURN, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PARTICIPATION AND MANAGEMENT IS UNDERTAKEN SOLELY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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