Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 10

CHOL INTERNATIONAL ARTS

Chol Theatre is a community arts company that works to advance education and cohesion in society, through the advancement of the arts, in particular the art of drama. We work in education and community settings and produce arts and education projects that have a social commitment.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

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: 29 years

www.wearechol.co.uk

info@wearechol.co.uk

07922882378

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		£263	£274	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£258	£236	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/21		£177	£172	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20		£155	£162	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	24
31/03/19		£156	£157	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/18		£103	£134	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£198	£183	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£182	£180	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£126	£137	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£121	£115	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£186	£181	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£177	£165	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£165	£159	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£236	£239	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£149	£153	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£218	£199	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£149	£146	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£116	£113	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£116	£125	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£168	£177	£-9	£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
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Imaginary Communities: Creative and Caring Schools
£13,000	18/01/2023	Chol Theatre is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people through high quality arts experiences, cultural education and community theatre projects. This grant supports ....more Chol Theatre is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people through high quality arts experiences, cultural education and community theatre projects. This grant supports Chol Theatre to further develop Imaginary Communities, a dramatic and inclusive story-making practice in which every child and teacher is involved in generating ideas, building a shared imaginary world, inhabiting it with characters and launching their own story and learning adventure.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Imaginary Communities: Creative and Caring Schools
£260,000	19/07/2021	Chol Theatre is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people through high quality arts experiences, cultural education and community theatre projects. This grant supports ....more Chol Theatre is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people through high quality arts experiences, cultural education and community theatre projects. This grant supports Chol Theatre to further develop Imaginary Communities, a dramatic and inclusive story-making practice in which every child and teacher is involved in generating ideas, building a shared imaginary world, inhabiting it with characters and launching their own story and learning adventure.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£30,000	03/06/2020 3	Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
National Lottery Community Fund - THE INTERNET GENIE COMMUNITY TOUR
£9,775	09/10/2019 12	THE INTERNET GENIE COMMUNITY TOUR
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A World Full of Imaginary Communities
£180,000	20/12/2017 36	Chol Theatre will extend the reach of its ‘Imaginary Communities’ drama-based approach to learning to schools across the North of England. It aims to improve children’s well-being, enjoyment ....more Chol Theatre will extend the reach of its ‘Imaginary Communities’ drama-based approach to learning to schools across the North of England. It aims to improve children’s well-being, enjoyment and engagement with learning. Chol also plans to develop its CPDL model, enabling teachers and artists to become practitioner/researchers.

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: 28-71

ALISON WAYMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Teacher

DEBORAH JANE DICKINSON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Theatre Producer, Other trusteeship: IMAGINE IF THEATRE COMPANY,

DANIELLE BATTERSBY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Festival, Sales And Marketing Manager

FAYE KAMSIKA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Assistant Head Teacher

LORNA PAULINE MCGINTY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Project Manager

MAHNOOR ANEES KHAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Teacher

MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNELL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Lecturer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/02/1995, number: 1044256
Registered at Companies House on 20/01/1995, number: 03012433

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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

5 Slant Gate
Linthwaite
HUDDERSFIELD
HD7 5RQ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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