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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

VANISHING POINT THEATRE COMPANY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

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
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £107,746 £118,053 £201,148 £55,425 £24,843
Donations & Legacies £262,474 £374,655 £261,488 £261,952
Other Income £31,923
Investment Income £198
Total income £370,220 £492,708 £462,636 £317,377 £378,982 £495,312
Charitable activities spending £382,005 £477,165 £510,651 £209,532 £397,816
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £382,005 £477,165 £510,651 £209,532 £465,360 £397,816
Surplus/deficit -£11,785 £15,543 -£48,015 £107,845 -£86,378 £97,496
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Established: 26 years

www.vanishing-point.org

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
Purposes
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Vanishing Point Theatre Company
£15,000 25/11/2022
Travel support for reciprocal UK-Japan flights by performers and artists developing a new international stage adaptation of short stories by Haruki Murakami titled 'The Shinagawa Monkey', a collaboration between Vanishing Point and Kanagawa Arts ....more
Glasgow City Council - VANISHING POINT: ARTISTIC PROGRAMME
£11,000 21/03/2019
Glasgow based, artist-led independent Theatre Company that presents work within the UK and abroad.
Glasgow City Council - VANISHING POINT: ARTISTIC PROGRAMME
£11,000 31/05/2018
Glasgow based, artist-led independent Theatre Company that presents work within the UK and abroad.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Vanishing Point Ltd
£10,000 11/11/2009
12
Towards Project costs Towards the cost of Shared Resources: Space 11, a creative hub and capacity building project supporting emerging solo artists and small theatre companies in Glasgow.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Directors: 26-64
  • KIM, Trent
    Appointed: 2021
    Occupation: Working University Of The West Of Scotland
  • RUSE, Emma
    Appointed: 2022
    Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 08/03/1999, number: SC028765
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/03/1999, number: SC194127
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Vanishing Point , 10th Floor East, 1 Cadogan Square, 51 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, G2 7HF

Objectives

To advance education for the public benefit by the promotion of the arts, in particular but not exclusively the art of drama.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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