Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

EX CATHEDRA LTD 

Ex Cathedra is a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble. It exists to enrich lives by means of historically-informed and contemporary performance excellence, research, education and training.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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?£553£570£-17£39£119£1132.41147
31/07/22*£959£966£-7£45£136£1311.61443
31/07/21£723£694£29£41£144£1392.41334
31/07/20£759£770£-11£45£115£1101.7615
31/07/19£876£886£-10£44£126£1211.61255
31/07/18£783£829£-47£44£136£1291.9110
31/07/17£730£704£26£30£182£1652.8100
31/07/16£1,000£987£13£13£156£1521.990
31/07/15£880£889£-9£15£143£1181.650
31/07/14£680£669£11£15£152£1292.350
31/07/13£889£880£8£12£141£1351.850
31/07/12£526£539£-12£4£133£110.350
31/07/11£696£702£-6£12£145£1212.160
31/07/10£593£694£-101£12£151£1412.450
31/07/09£629£690£-61£21£246£1622.840
31/07/08£801£666£135£16£306£2464.440
31/07/07£445£459£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/06£502£472£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05£426£428£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£364£345£20£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 65%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 33 years
(34 years as a company)

www.excathedra.co.uk

info@excathedra.co.uk

01216163410

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 47 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£286,708
Esmee Fairbairn£90,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Youth Music£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to Ex Cathedra
£90,000 08/04/2024
TASK fund donation towards general charitable costs
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£56,944 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 28/05/2021
Ex Cathedra [a leading UK choir] delivers SINGING MEDICINE – a programme which aims to improve the well-being of patients at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and beyond, through positive and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ex Cathedra Singing Postcards for our Health Communities
£9,900 27/11/2020
6
The funding will be used to create digital singing postcards for people living with long-term health conditions. The project aims to improve the mental wellbeing of people experiencing isolation ....more
Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
£10,000 30/04/2020
Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Organisational sustainability
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£58,742 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 - Ex Cathedra
£114,078 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Ex Cathedra - CRF2 (Apr-Jun 2021)
£56,944 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£57,681 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Ex Cathedra
£4,000 14/02/2019
Ex Cathedra Choral Scholarships aim to support talented music graduates make the transition from student to professional choral singer.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£45,000 23/05/2018
Fund the Singing Medicine project, bringing the benefits of singing play to children aged 0-16 years in Birmingham Children's Hospital
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£57,681 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£14,420 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
Youth Music - Singing Medicine: Singing Medicine brings the special benefits of singing to children of all ages (0-18) in Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
£66,291 27/04/2016
Singing Medicine: Singing Medicine brings the special benefits of singing to children of all ages (0-18) in Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Birmingham City Council - Ex Cathedra
£35,000 01/04/2016
EX CATHEDRA; Arts and culture;
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs towards salary of fundraising manager
£69,441 28/01/2016
24
Towards core costs, specifically the salary of a Fundraising Manager to support expansion.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ex Cathedra
£42,000 13/03/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of a project in the West Midlands that uses singing in health care settings to support the rehabilitation of stroke survivors
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ex Cathedra
£50,000 26/03/2008
24
Towards Project costs Towards the cost of running the organisation?s 40th anniversary programme to affirm Birmingham as a city of choral excellence.
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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: 43-75
  • ALOK NAYAK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Arts Manager
  • PAUL KEENE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Arts Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/09/1991, number: 1004086
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/1989, number: 02396173
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
  • 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; AR22: 7 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from MIDLAND FESTIVAL CHORUS on 14/06/2022
Main office

C B S O
BERKLEY STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B1 2LF

Objectives

TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST MIDLANDS AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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