Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

Good reserves management: +3
Spending declining: -1
Volatile income: -3
Fundraising costs low: +3

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

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 16

WYSING ARTS CHARITY

Wysing Arts Centre is a visual arts organisation that develops new ways to support artists, enabling art and ideas to reach a wide range of people in unexpected ways. We develop educational programmes for artistic experimentation, enquiry and production, supporting innovative art to be created and experienced by new audiences, including specialist programmes for young people and schools.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Spending is declining
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 30 years

www.wysingartscentre.org

info@wysingartscentre.org

01954718881

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	£634	£693	£-59	£44	£966	£344	6	10	1
31/03/22	£762	£760	£3	£21	£1,025	£361	5.7	11	1
31/03/21	£626	£633	£-7	£23	£1,022	£334	6.3	8	1
31/03/20	£917	£964	£-46	£81	£1,029	£274	3.4	9	14
31/03/19	£946	£992	£-45	£48	£1,075	£273	3.3	10	7
31/03/18	£776	£814	£-37	£55	£1,120	£273	4	10	0
31/03/17	£668	£691	£-24	£66	£1,158	£255	4.4	10	0
31/03/16	£653	£708	£-54	£9	£1,181	£251	4.2	10	0
31/03/15	£538	£681	£-142	£60	£1,235	£237	4.2	10	0
31/03/14	£663	£676	£-14	£79	£1,381	£257	4.6	8	0
31/03/13	£579	£680	£-101	£71	£1,394	£217	3.8	9	0
31/03/12	£371	£635	£-263	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£545	£570	£-25	£33	£1,759	£239	5	8	0
31/03/10	£659	£529	£130	£29	£1,784	£146	3.3	5	0
31/03/09	£419	£466	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£1,095	£381	£714	£41	£1,700	£34	1.1	6	0
31/03/07	£1,098	£423	£675	£53	£987	£21	0.6	5	0
31/03/06	£537	£425	£112	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£396	£445	£-49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£314	£355	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 36%
Reserves/Spending: 6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

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

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

10 employees
1 volunteer

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	£517,805
Esmee Fairbairn	£83,250
Fenton Arts Trust	£5,000
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation	£2,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Wysing Youth Festival
£2,600	05/10/2023	to enable Wysing’s Creative Youth Council to co-programme and co-run a free Youth Festival for their peers, largely marginalised young people living in rural Cambridgeshire
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Wysing Arts Centre
£2,000	20/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Wysing Arts Centre
£5,000	01/07/2021	Funding is requested to support two residencies specifically targeting talented early career artists at Wysing Arts Centre.
DCMS - Investment Funds
£15,064	21/06/2021	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 ....more 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 to help deliver this vision.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Wysing Arts Centre
£60,000	20/10/2020 24	Towards Project costs for creating a pathway of sustained involvement and development in creative arts for young people in rural communities in Cambridgeshire.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Wysing Arts Centre
£21,250	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - ational portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£465,173	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 - Wysing Arts Centre: transitioning to a viable and sutsainable operating model during April-June 2021
£37,568	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Wysing Arts Centre
£120,000	30/08/2017 36	Towards costs for extending a peer-led arts programme for children and young people into South Cambridgeshire and Fenland.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-74

CELIA WILLOUGHBY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Environmental Innovation Analyst

HAROLD OFFEH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Artist

LAURA WRIGHT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive, Postal Museum, Other trusteeship: THE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ENTERPRISES,

RUMMANA NAQVI LADAK Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Development Manager

TERENCE BROOKS Appointed: 1994, Occupation: Proposed Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/07/1994, number: 1039555
Registered at Companies House on 23/06/1994, number: 02942151

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

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
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; all on time

Main office

WYSING ARTS CENTRE
FOX ROAD
BOURN
CAMBRIDGE
CB23 2TX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ASSIST AND IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED -IN PRACTICE,CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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