Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

WILTONS MUSIC HALL 

To foster musical and art education and to promote publice interest in and appreciation of music and art together with raising funds to protect the Heritage of the historical Music Hall for future generations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
30/09/22£1,624£1,719£-95£316£4,466£1,2608.8430
30/09/21£1,032£921£110£88£4,561£1,02913.4200
30/09/20£1,768£1,667£101£550£4,450£7995.85720
30/09/19£2,484£2,305£179£693£4,349£8354.34920
30/09/18£2,385£2,038£347£597£4,170£5933.52825
30/09/17£1,720£1,819£-99£414£3,823£2211.5250
30/09/16£1,565£1,716£-151£642£3,923£390.3160
30/09/15£1,223£1,384£-161£501£4,074£-24-0.2160
30/09/14£1,464£1,307£157£522£4,235£210.2180
30/09/13£4,388£1,327£3,062£569£4,077£180.2120
30/09/12*£1,826£912£914£292£1,015£731140
30/09/11*£980£821£159£279£102£250.490
30/09/10£523£518£5£203£-57£-57-1.360
30/09/09£526£402£123£219£-62£-62-1.840
30/09/08£406£431£-25£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/07£459£518£-60£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06*£373£427£-53£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/05*£116£179£-63£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/04£190£219£-29£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 31.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 18.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 28%
Reserves/Spending: 8.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 33 years

www.wiltons.org.uk

020 7702 2789

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 43 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£208,638
DCMS£148,342
National Lottery Heritage Fund£50,000
The Foyle Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Wilton’s Music Hall
£0 09/12/2021
Grant of £3,195 towards water heater and emergency lighting. Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870)
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£133,638 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Wilton's Music Hall
£5,000 18/09/2020
Cost related to the re-opening of Wilton's Music Hall in January 2021
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wilton's Music Hall
£50,000 13/07/2020
COVID19: Wilton's Music Hall
DCMS - Wilton's Re-open and Re-energise
£102,044 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Wilton's - Securing Our Future
£46,298 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 07/02/2020
The Beautiful Word
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£50,000 04/02/2020
towards a programme of operational improvements to Wilton's Music Hall
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/07/2018
Core Costs - Technical & Facilities Costs
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Wilton's Music Hall
£45,000 12/03/2015
Arts Learning and Participation programme for local schools and the Wapping/Tower Hamlets community
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Wilton's Music Hall Trust
£100,000 19/06/2014
£100,000 towards the costs of disabled access works in Phase 2 of the capital project.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Wilton's Music Hall Trust
£120,000 19/12/2012
Towards a new staffing structure to be implemented during and after the restoration and refurbishment of the building in Aldgate.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-80
  • ANDREW MAKIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Corporate Finance
  • MARK TIERNEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Head Of Marketing, Bbc
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/05/1991, number: 1003041
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/10/1990, number: 02553922
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR12: 57 days late, AR11: 10 days late, AR06: 140 days late, AR05: 150 days late,
Main office

1 GRACES ALLEY
LONDON
E1 8JB

Objectives

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ART OF MUSIC, DRAMA AND THE OTHER PERFORMING ARTS INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA, BALLET AND ALL ART FORMS AND PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL OPERA COURSES;3.2 THE PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF GREATER LONDON AND OF THE NATION, THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND GREATER LONDON IN BUILDINGS (INCLUDING ANY BUILDING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 336 OF THE TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST AND INCLUDING THE PREMISES KNOWN AS WILTON’S GRAND MUSIC HALL;3.3 THE PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION INCLUDING IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VICTORIAN MUSIC HALL AND BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING AND DANCE; AND3.4 TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMPANY MAY DECIDE;AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH OBJECTS, CHARITABLE PURPOSES SHALL BE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 97(1) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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