Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

ALMEIDA THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED 

Primarily producing and presenting plays and other performances at our theatre
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/03/23£8,650£8,625£25£692£6,070£3,6095690
31/03/22£6,395£6,643£-248£519£6,045£3,4156.2660
31/03/21£3,927£3,526£401£405£6,293£3,37811.51710
31/03/20£6,392£6,404£-12£671£5,892£2,8985.4780
31/03/19£5,787£6,232£-445£674£5,904£3,1706.1760
31/03/18*£6,822£6,519£303£713£6,349£3,4816.4720
31/03/17£6,512£5,833£679£728£6,046£3,0306.2860
31/03/16£5,950£5,786£165£741£5,833£2,9816.2720
31/03/15£5,357£5,361£-3£685£5,669£2,7276.1700
31/03/14£4,950£5,156£-206£626£5,672£2,6406.1590
31/03/13£4,276£4,522£-246£559£5,870£2,7497.3730
31/03/12£4,588£4,483£104£648£6,124£2,9177.8710
31/03/11£4,214£4,139£75£566£6,020£2,7027.8690
31/03/10£4,168£4,156£12£514£5,945£2,5277.3690
31/03/09£4,306£4,009£297£504£5,933£2,4217.2540
27/03/08£4,029£4,246£-216£529£5,636£2,0185.7600
31/03/07£3,919£3,991£-72£528£5,844£1,9125.7560
31/03/06£4,111£3,890£221£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£3,860£3,741£119£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£4,531£4,009£522£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Established: 43 years

www.almeida.co.uk

info@almeida.co.uk

02072884921

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 69 employees

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£1,548,928
Wolfson Foundation£200,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
David & Elaine Potter Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards an education outreach programme: Almeida Participation
£5,000 20/10/2023
Towards an education outreach programme: Almeida Participation
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Almeida Theatre
£5,000 22/06/2022
Towards project costs supporting and nurturing 56 future designers, technicians, and stage managers by delivering two 13 week programmes for young people aged 14-18 and 18-25. The workshops are led ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Almeida Theatre
£1,500 29/04/2022
Towards theatre education workshops
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£10,000 23/11/2021
Core funding
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Almeida Theatre
£120,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£10,000 02/09/2020
12
Core funding
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Almeida Theatre
£565 17/06/2020
Opportunities, education and skills development of creative talent for artists with financing challenges or disability support requirements
DCMS - Almeida Theatre
£687,928 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - Almeida Theatre Recovery Plan
£574,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Almeida Recovery - April to June 2021
£287,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Almeida Theatre
£80,000 05/12/2019
Upgrade technical equipment
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Almeida Theatre Company Ltd
£4,079 09/09/2019
£4,079 to meet the costs of an access audit for the Almeida Theatre building.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 10/07/2019
Almeida Participation
DCMS - Almeida Theatre
£675,499 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£8,000 13/02/2019
12
Core funding
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Dinosaurs & Robots
£263,262 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104901
DCMS - Almeida Theatre
£675,499 01/04/2018
Almeida Theatre
DCMS - Almeida Theatre
£168,875 01/04/2018
To support Almeida Theatre
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£6,000 18/10/2017
12
Core funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Almeida Theatre Company Ltd
£50,000 03/04/2017
11
Towards a year-long programme which records and makes available free online, some of the world's most important speeches, with associated community and youth programmes.
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£6,000 15/03/2016
12
Core funding
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Almeida Theatre and its production: Boy
£15,000 08/02/2016
6
Support to underpin the collaboration between Almeida Projects and Arsenal in the Community’s Positive Future around the main stage production of “Boy”, by Leo Butler - a play that focuses on ....more
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Almeida Greeks
£3,000 29/04/2015
To support the Almeida Greeks programme
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 30/09/2014
Core funding
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Almeida Theatre Company Limited
£25,000 26/02/2014
Almeida Projects Creative Learning Programme
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 20/08/2013
Core funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Almeida Theatre Company Ltd
£104,450 17/06/2013
An investment in the transfer of Chimerica to the West End.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Almeida Theatre Company Ltd
£60,000 09/05/2012
Towards the costs of the Almeida Festival, which offers other theatre companies, particularly emerging companies, the opportunity of performing at the Almeida Theatre.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-71
  • SARISHA KUMAR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Talent And Development Manager
  • JOHN ARMAH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Digital Strategist
  • RACHEL PARR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer
  • LUKE JOHNSON (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Restaurateur
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/06/1981, number: 282167
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/02/1981, number: 01546033
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR05: 60 days late,
Main office

ALMEIDA THEATRE
ALMEIDA STREET
LONDON
N1 1TA

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED

Data Sources

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