Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 2

THEATRE SANS FRONTIERES LIMITED

National and international touring theatre company

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

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		£62	£84	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/22		£131	£101	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£51	£47	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£49	£49	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£102	£116	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£96	£92	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£98	£120	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£80	£145	£-65	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£355	£351	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£265	£282	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£275	£264	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£333	£270	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£315	£276	£39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£305	£277	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£308	£314	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£296	£320	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£427	£430	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£249	£273	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£355	£318	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£271	£300	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years
(33 years as a company)

www.tsf.org.uk

admin@tsf.org.uk

01434603114

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

Where it operates

Spain, Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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	£25,045
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£12,765
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£5,462

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Theatre Sans Frontieres
£8,090	17/03/2022	Project costs to perform a play in French to pupils aged 6 to 11 in Northumberland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Theatre Sans Frontieres
£4,675	21/10/2021	Core costs, including actors’ and director's fees, set and costume, travel and rehearsal space hire
DCMS - TSF: Building Sustainability
£25,045	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Touring 'The Animal Olympics Tokyo 2020' production to primary and middle schools
£5,462	07/02/2020	Touring 'The Animal Olympics Tokyo 2020' production to primary and middle schools
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	10/05/2017	Core costs 2017-18
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Theatre Sans Frontieres
£35,000	15/06/2011	Towards the costs of developing a web based platform and incorporating online material to support foreign language learning for children.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Theatre Sans Frontieres
£5,000	30/04/2008 12	Towards Project costs Towards costs related to the London run of "Like Water for Chocolate".

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-71

BARBARA ISABEL DOUGLAS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Project Manager (Voluntary Sector)

CHRIS BLACK Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

RHIANNON GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Solicitor

CAROLINE THEOBALD CBE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/05/1995, number: 1046461
Registered at Companies House on 30/01/1991, number: 02578163

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR05: 15 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

2a
Tanners Yard
HEXHAM
NE46 3NL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN,IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING, PRACTICE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY PROMOTING ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

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