Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

No PartB

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

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 19

THE PLAY HOUSE (B'HAM) LTD

The Play House provides exciting particpatory theatre and drama to stimulate the learning of children and young people, igniting the imagination to make sense of the world. Its projects bring the curriculum to life for primary schools, explore social, emotional & health issues and extend these ideas beyond the classroom.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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 £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23		£234	£124	£110	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/22		£197	£229	£-33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/21?	*	£128	£77	£51	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£146	£149	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£175	£158	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	*	£209	£202	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£204	£200	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£179	£178	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£171	£159	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£146	£143	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£154	£145	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£234	£256	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£394	£396	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10	*	£360	£357	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09	*	£342	£343	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08		£384	£381	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/07	*	£361	£393	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06	*	£414	£472	£-58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05	*	£398	£383	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£374	£415	£-41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years

www.theplayhouse.org.uk

info@theplayhouse.org.uk

01212654425

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£173,000
DCMS	£41,177
Postcode Local Trust	£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Postcode Local Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£20,000	03/04/2023	Funding supported the charity to increase well-being, learning and development of some of Birmingham's most vulnerable children.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Does Birmingham belong to me?
£153,000	06/03/2023	The Play House’s Theatre in Education company will work in partnership with Dr Reza Gholami from Birmingham University and four primary schools to develop a drama-based approach to addressing complex issues of identity, belonging, inclusion and ....more The Play House’s Theatre in Education company will work in partnership with Dr Reza Gholami from Birmingham University and four primary schools to develop a drama-based approach to addressing complex issues of identity, belonging, inclusion and citizenship. They aim to support children, teachers and schools to develop their own 'Brummie' identity and set of 'British Values' which can be shared through drama and storytelling with the wider school community and an early years setting.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	23/09/2022	Support for core costs
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000	01/04/2021	The Play House uses participatory theatre and drama to support the language and learning of children and young people. They aim to ignite children’s imagination and creativity through meaningful participation based on pedagogy and practice that ....more The Play House uses participatory theatre and drama to support the language and learning of children and young people. They aim to ignite children’s imagination and creativity through meaningful participation based on pedagogy and practice that has been developed over 30 years in partnership with Birmingham and Midlands schools. They deliver high quality, engaging programmes supported by comprehensive and practical resources for teachers. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.
Woodward Charitable Trust - A month's Artistic Director's salary
£1,500	19/10/2020	Core costs
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund
£41,177	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 2019-20
£27,698	01/04/2019	The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to voluntary and community sector groups and the ....more The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to voluntary and community sector groups and the Home Office made up to £800,000 available in 2017 to 2018.A second round of the fund was announced in the Serious Violence Strategy, launched by the Home Secretary on 9 April 2018.In 2018/19 were are increasing this fund to £1.56 million pound for 68 projects.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	18/07/2017	Mental health and wellbeing theatre project for primary schools
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Play House
£12,284	28/06/2011	Towards 'Ganging Up' an ambitious participatory touring performance that explores the issue of gangs with young people between the ages of 9 and 13.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-66

ADAYA MONIQUE HENRY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Artist

KESHENA ELISE BOWIE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Buisness Development & Marketing Officer

KESHENA ELISE BOWIE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Buisness Development & Marketing Officer

LIAM ALEXANDRU Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Film Maker

PAUL EDWARDS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Theatre Practitioner And Lecturer

TESSA TAYLOR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Finance Officer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/03/1994, number: 1034809
Registered at Companies House on 18/06/1993, number: 02828276

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds 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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR21: 49 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR10: 247 days late, AR09: 110 days late, AR07: 21 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 4 days late,

Main office

C/O Action for Children
2-4 Guild Close
Birmingham
B16 8EL

Objectives

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF DRAMA AND THEATRE (2) TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF ARTS EDUCATION AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES THROUGH TRAINING PROGRAMMES, COURSES, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, CLASSES AND CONFERENCES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND

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