Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 8

No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 12

FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION

Forward Arts Foundation promotes the enjoyment, discovery and sharing of poetry, celebrating excellence in poetry and widening its audience. Our annual programmes include National Poetry Day, the Forward Prizes for Poetry and the Forward Books of Poetry.

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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

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: 30 years

www.forwardartsfoundation.org

info@forwardartsfoundation.org

02081879861

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£243	£223	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£302	£323	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£276	£286	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20	*	£293	£298	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19		£287	£285	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£305	£267	£38	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£274	£274	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£292	£268	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£171	£180	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£162	£151	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£360	£353	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£425	£456	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£220	£199	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£132	£113	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£126	£114	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£143	£131	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£64	£64	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£36	£51	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£50	£51	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£53	£54	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£143,648
John Ellerman Foundation	£75,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000
Esmee Fairbairn	£12,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs: Directors' and Operation Manager's salaries, prize funding, communications, poets' fees and contribution to overheads.
£75,000	29/09/2022	Core costs: Directors' and Operation Manager's salaries, prize funding, communications, poets' fees and contribution to overheads.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000	04/06/2021	Forward at 30 - Core Costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forward Arts Foundation
£12,500	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - Forward Arts Foundation
£48,796	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 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 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. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
DCMS - Transitioning to a Sustainable National Poetry Day and Forward Prizes
£94,852	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forward Arts Foundation
£100,000	18/12/2017 36	Towards the costs of developing National Poetry Day into a poetry hub enabling year-round participation in poetry across the UK, particularly in areas of low cultural engagement.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding
£90,000	28/09/2017 36	Towards core costs, specifically extending National Poetry Day into a year-round programme
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forward Arts Foundation
£75,000	01/04/2015 36	Towards core costs to sustain the organisation's work celebrating excellence in poetry and widening its audience.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forward Arts Foundation
£20,000	04/09/2012	Towards the salary of the executive director.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 23-72

AMELIA KATE RICHARDS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

AOIFE O'CONNOR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

JAMES ANDREWS (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Culture & Learning, British Library

KIM EVANS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Arts Consultant, Other trusteeships: ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED, THE ARVON FOUNDATION, The Hardman Trust,

LATINKA PILIPOVIC Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Treasurer

MARY AMANUEL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

MAYA EVADNE OPHELIA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

WILLIAM MATTHEW SIEGHART Appointed: 1993, Occupation: Publisher

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/05/1994, number: 1037939
Registered at Companies House on 28/02/1994, number: 02902864

Gift Aid

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
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
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; AR20: 334 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR06: 9 days late, AR05: 16 days late, AR04: 2 days late,

Main office

Somerset House Exchange
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION OF LITERARY WORKS ESPECIALLY CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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