Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

    BARREL ORGAN

    TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCES FOR HARD TO REACH AUDIENCES
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

    Financial issues to consider:

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

    Financial Data ?

    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit
    Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£99£46£52n/a
    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 3 years

    www.barrelorgantheatre.co.uk

    info@barrelorgantheatre.co.uk

    07894240982

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • 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
    Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£34,639
    DCMS£32,478
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£8,710
    Henry Smith Charity£5,000
    Two Ridings Community Foundation£1,998
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Barrel Organ
    £5,000 13/03/2024
    12
    towards one year's running costs of the ‘Town Squared Dover’ theatre project for younger and older people in Dover, Kent.
    Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Project Funding
    £20,577 31/07/2023
    Funding facilitated a 20-week programme of participatory theatre workshops in partnership with Doncaster Mind & the Trans Pennine Trail
    Two Ridings Community Foundation - Once & Future - York
    £1,998 08/12/2022
    Funding will be used to run a creative workshop for 15 young people focused around leadership and empowerment, using theatre as a way of engagement and development.
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - 50 residents from Leighton Lindslade will have the opportunity to take part in performing arts community workshops leading to a festival finale. 200 audience members are expected to attend a final showcase of the works that have been produced and developed.
    £8,710 11/07/2022
    Town Squared – a community theatre project
    Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Participatory Arts & Mental Well-being Project
    £14,062 27/05/2022
    Funding facilitated a creative storytelling programme to help improve the mental well-being of community members in Doncaster.
    DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
    £32,478 13/10/2021
    This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (4)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    • ELEANOR ROSE Appointed: 2023
    • ETHEL MAQEDA Appointed: 2022
    • JACK PERKINS Appointed: 2022
    • KATE ELIZABETH WASSERBERG Appointed: 2022
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/04/2022, number: 1198668
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    Filing Record
    1 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    44 CLUB GARDEN ROAD
    SHEFFIELD
    S11 8BU

    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCES FOR HARD TO REACH AUDIENCES.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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