Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

INDEPENDENT ARTS 

Therapeutic art projects in the community for people with special needs, the disadvantaged and older people living on the Isle of Wight.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • 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
31/07/23£307£413£-105n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/07/22£304£413£-109n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/07/21£377£300£77n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/07/20£238£238£0n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/07/19£271£255£16n/an/an/an/an/a77
31/07/18£256£229£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/17£287£210£77£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/16£241£181£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15£135£132£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/14£115£126£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/13£97£129£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/12£122£106£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/11£106£79£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/10£83£80£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/09£91£78£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/08£72£69£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/07£96£80£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/06£65£82£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05£74£75£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£92£68£24£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 37 years

www.independentarts.org.uk

info@independentarts.org.uk

01983822437

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Isle Of Wight,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 40 volunteers

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£57,856
Tudor Trust£52,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£27,500
Youth Music£20,079
Co-Op Foundation£16,935
National Lottery Community Fund£9,014
The Fore£5,000
Dunhill Medical Trust£3,850
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tudor Trust - Grant to Independent Arts
£50,000 17/04/2020
24
over two years towards the core costs of an organisation that uses the arts, and runs a social prescribing hub, to engage marginalised people on the Isle of Wight
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Independent Arts
£2,312 22/10/2022
We would like to pay a professional to give local people mental health awareness training.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 28/01/2022
leadership through change
National Lottery Community Fund - Your Move
£9,014 05/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver an intergenerational project using the game of chess to bring young and older people together. The project aims to improve their social and observational skills as ....more
DCMS - ACE Loneliness Fund
£28,928 18/01/2021
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 ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Independent Arts
£2,000 04/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Co-Op Foundation - Independent Arts STC Expand application
£8,935 21/09/2020
To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Independent Arts
£5,000 09/04/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Independent Arts, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
DCMS - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928 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
Youth Music - Small Hope Beach
£20,079 06/03/2020
Small Hope Beach
Dunhill Medical Trust - Strategy support
£3,850 28/11/2019
12
Development of an Income Diversification and Engagement Strategy
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£8,000 03/10/2019
They will hold a series of creative and accessible community consultations with current and future stakeholders to provide a direction for their work on underused spaces.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 17/09/2019
Independent Arts - Core support
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Independent Arts
£117,900 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing social singing groups for older people in the Isle of Wight
National Lottery Community Fund - School Ties
£78,214 28/02/2019
25
The organisation will use funding to deliver 'School Ties', an intergenerational project which seeks to tackle the origins of loneliness in very young children and the isolation and lack of ....more
Comic Relief - Sustainability Fund 2
£27,135 12/02/2019
3
SELFA’s five year vision is a greater voice and more independence for the young people we support.In consultation, they told us they don’t feel their needs are met by the adults who serve their ....more
People's Health Trust - Anxiety Cafe
£22,198 15/01/2019
This two-year project enabled people experiencing depression and anxiety living on the Isle of Wight to meet together on a regular basis and participate in social and creative activities, including ....more
Dunhill Medical Trust - Changing Spaces - care homes as creative places
£37,000 18/06/2018
24
Changing Spaces is a culture-change project designed to improve the lives of older people in residential settings by providing a sustainable programme of creative activities to those in care. It ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 16/05/2018
SingAbout
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£2,500 19/04/2017
Community arts projects for isolated older people.
Comic Relief - Build From Strength
£34,966 30/11/2016
24
Independent Arts runs wellbeing services targeted at older people living in the Isle of Wight; on the Island 26.1% of the population are aged over 65 and rates of dementia are twice the national ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Independent Arts
£10,000 08/09/2016
24
towards two years' salary of the Chief Executive at a project providing support to vulnerable older people in residential care and in the community on the Isle of Wight
The Fore - Grant to Independent Arts
£7,120 31/05/2014
36
Grant funded the development of its InTouch project, which researches and develops the use of iPad technology with dementia sufferers.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Independent Arts
£24,900 29/04/2014
Independent Arts uses arts based activities to improve the health, wellbeing and quality of life of older people and people with learning disabilities both in residential centres and through ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Independent Arts
£8,700 13/06/2013
towards one year's salary of the Chief Executive of a project on the Isle of Wight that addresses the local health and social needs of older people through the creative arts
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Independent Arts
£6,000 14/03/2012
towards one year's salary costs of a charity that provides supporting to people with special needs and older people on the Isle of Wight
Woodward Charitable Trust - SingAbout programme for older people
£1,000 14/02/2012
Towards the SingAbout programme for older people in the Isle of Wight.
Dunhill Medical Trust - Staffing Grant: General Manager
£20,000 09/03/2011
Independent Arts is a small charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for people living on the Isle of Wight, particularly older people, those with special needs and the disadvantaged
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-91
  • JONATHAN BEAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Fundraising Consultant
  • JOSIE POOK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance Director
  • LEAH RICE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Artist
  • GEOFF RUCK Appointed: 2014, Occupation: It Specialist
  • JODIE JONES Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Charity Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/08/1987, number: 297474
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/07/1987, number: 02147908
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

48/49 High Street
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 1SE

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR PERSONS HAVING SPECIAL NEEDS IN THE ARTS GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING (BY WAY OF EXAMPLE ONLY AND NOT OF LIMITATION) THE ARTS OF BALLET, FILM, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, POETRY, LITERATURE, THE GRAPHIC ARTS, SCULPTURE CRAFTS AND DESIGN ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT. (B) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, PARTICULARLY THERAPEUTIC FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED OR AGED OR OTHER PERSONS HAVING SPECIAL NEEDS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Defined Area of Benefit:

ISLE OF WIGHT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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