Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

CINDERFORD ARTSPACE 

A community arts centre with outreach programmes offering both educational & leisure opportunities in participatory & community arts to people of all ages & abilities.
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • 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

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£448£354£95n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£287£321£-34n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£253£250£3n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£249£275£-26n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£282£302£-21n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£316£297£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£247£256£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£245£258£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£217£220£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£200£182£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£183£195£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£174£170£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£158£176£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£171£175£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£153£181£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£217£208£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£206£189£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£174£154£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£165£155£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£345£128£217£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 28 years
(33 years as a company)

www.artspacecinderford.org

hannah@artspacecinderford.org

07980618404

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£4,000 02/03/2021
Social circus project
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£19,976 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
DCMS - Cinderford Artspace NPO 18-22
£48,830 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
DCMS - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928 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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cinderford Artspace
£9,500 14/03/2012
towards one year's running costs of an arts project in Gloucestershire for children under 5 and their families
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Cinderford Artspace
£19,400 25/08/2011
the costs of the Exhibition Project including the salary of the exhibition worker, frames, materials, publicity & marketing

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-80
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/03/1996, number: 1053492
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/1991, number: 02580953
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Artspace
The New Mercury
3 Woodside Street
Cinderford

Objectives

TO HELP AND EDUCATE PEOPLE THROUGH LEISURE-TIME AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE ADN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THESE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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