Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -9
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • 2 Trustees: -2
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -6 ?

SNIBSTON AND DESFORD COLLIERY BANDS COMPRISING THE SNIBSTON AND DESFORD COLLIERY BAND, THE DESFORD COLLIERY BAND AND THE DESFORD ACADEMY 

We are a Brass Band organisation and have a Championship Brass Band who perform worldwide, a B Band who perform locally and our Academy where we provide brass and percussion tuition and instruments to children in the locality who wish to learn music.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 2 trustees
  • The Board is completely male

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 ?
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
31/12/22£112£113£-2n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/21£88£94£-5n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/20£104£97£8n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/19£135£131£4n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/18£113£112£0£0£0£0n/a010
31/12/17£80£83£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£89£89£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£91£88£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£82£82£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£77£79£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£61£62£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£93£99£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£139£117£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£83£84£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£83£84£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£76£75£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£38£36£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05*£36£36£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04*£18£16£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 31 years
Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Leicestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Health Safety and Refurbishment
£9,180 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to update and refurbish a community space by upgrading the toilet facilities window entrance door parking facilities and installing surveillance cameras. The project aims to ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,500 08/07/2021
to cover the cost of two cornets

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (2)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/08/1993, number: 1025068
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR05: 128 days late, AR04: 21 days late,
Main office

DESFORD BRASS BAND CLUB
WHITWICK ROAD
COALVILLE
LE67 3FA

Objectives

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE MUSICAL ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF BRASS BAND PLAYING, AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF APPRECIATION IN THE SAID ART BY THE PREENTATION OF CONCERTS AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE, NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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