Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 14

NOVEMBER CLUB

Vision: From our Northumberland home, November Club dreams of a world where everyone can contribute to and experience extraordinary and imaginative performances that touch the heart and challenge thinking.Mission: November Club is an arts charity, engaging local communities to create original performances that tell unexpected stories about people and places.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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

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

Established: 31 years

www.novemberclub.org.uk

info@novemberclub.org.uk

01670 457808

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£194	£183	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17
31/03/22	£235	£235	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/21	£178	£169	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20	£170	£194	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19	£192	£200	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18	£213	£248	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£226	£150	£76	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£196	£190	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£156	£134	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£174	£177	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£147	£166	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£57	£24	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£86	£86	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£48	£48	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£34	£33	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£58	£56	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
17 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	£147,530
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	01/05/2020	November Club Core
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£102,530	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - November Club
£45,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	02/07/2019	towards 'A Lit & Phil Carol: A Christmas Adventure for all the Family'
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A new fairytale for Shilbottle
£2,600	04/04/2018	A new fairytale for Shilbottle
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to November Club
£37,462	23/01/2017 12	Towards new site specific work created with members of eight rural communities across Northumberland.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards The Great Performing Rope - Speculative Fiction Project
£6,200	04/09/2015	Towards The Great Performing Rope - Speculative Fiction Project

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-59

CATHERINE SARAH HINDLE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Head Of Operations & Tourism - Manager, Other trusteeship: KIELDER OBSERVATORY ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,

CHRISTOPHER RICHARD FOXON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Theatre Producer

FIONA CLARE WHITEHURST Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Lecturer In Higher Education

HELEN CLARE FUSSELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Self Employed

JILL ELIZABETH READ Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Communications Professional

JOHANNA LOUISE DARBY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Managing Director

JOHN ANTHONY BEATTIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Deputy Director

LAUREN REGAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Founder/Managing Director

MARK QUIGLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/01/1993, number: 1016172
Registered at Companies House on 20/05/1991, number: 02612362

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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

54a Newgate Street
Morpeth
NE61 1BE

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THE DRAMATIC ARTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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