Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 5

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 10

THE THEATRE COMPANY BLAH BLAH BLAH

We make theatre based on stories and ideas that interest us, then find ways to engage an appropriate audience, mainly children and young people. We work on ideas and stories over a two/three year period experimenting with different formats with different audiences, taking time to find the best way to tell a story, and the reason we are telling it.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests 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
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

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
31/03/23		£61	£51	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£27	£39	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£61	£55	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£56	£56	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£74	£112	£-38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	*	£218	£210	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£172	£203	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£190	£187	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£158	£143	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£170	£163	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£168	£160	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£181	£149	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£199	£186	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£230	£207	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£174	£175	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08		£199	£202	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/07		£188	£184	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06		£185	£167	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05	*	£170	£149	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£120	£120	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Balance Sheet History

Established: 30 years

www.blahs.co.uk

admin@blahs.co.uk

01134261394

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£14,900
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£4,285

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Growing Day in Lidget Green
£4,285	29/04/2022	The funding will be used to deliver a Community Growing Day (CGD) with young families and intergenerational groups. The day involves a performance workshops and free refreshments. The project aims to ....more The funding will be used to deliver a Community Growing Day (CGD) with young families and intergenerational groups. The day involves a performance workshops and free refreshments. The project aims to build connections and find practical ways to maintain them.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	04/02/2020	towards 'Stirring up the past' - an audio walk to take place in autumn 2021
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah
£14,900	29/01/2020	Stirring up the Past
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Vulture's Song
£50,000	15/12/2017 12	The Blahs will explore and test an integrated model involving participatory theatre and digital learning to support social, moral, spiritual and cultural learning in six Leeds primary schools. A ....more The Blahs will explore and test an integrated model involving participatory theatre and digital learning to support social, moral, spiritual and cultural learning in six Leeds primary schools. A performance of The Vultures’ Song about the Partition of India, will enable pupils to engage with concepts of homeland, belonging, cultural/faith identity and citizenship.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah
£2,840	04/08/2017	Our interactive storytelling project will fire the imagination of children, increase literacy, develop confidence and offer life skills.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-61

GILLIAN CAROLINE MORLEY Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Teacher

INDERJEET BELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Pastoral Support Officer

JOB KABAMBA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Delivery And Development Officer

LAUREN RACHAEL HUXLEY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Union Affairs Officer

LINZI TATE (Chair) Appointed: 2021

MADELEINE GENEVRA BEATRICE THORNE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Community Partnerships

NEIL ALEXANDER MEASON MCCALLUM Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Commercial Propositions

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/08/1994, number: 1039935
Registered at Companies House on 17/03/1994, number: 02909605

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR18: 16 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE
QUEEN STREET
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 2SP

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THEATRE, DRAMA AND THE PERFORMING ARTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED