Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +3
    Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

    YORUBA CONTEMPORARY ARTS TRUST 

    Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust is a charitable trust, committed to fostering the development of African arts and culture through a wide range of educational and arts activities and promoting an awareness of the impact of African people on the wider African Diaspora.
    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

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • Over half the Board have joined recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
    • Income has been volatile recently

    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*£55£52£2n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/22£23£41£-18n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/21*£83£67£17n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/20£52£56£-5n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/19£75£78£-3n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/18£45£47£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£24£5£19£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£6£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15*£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14*£9£15£-5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13*£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12*£22£14£8£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11*£19£26£-7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10*£26£30£-5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£42£48£-6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08*£24£15£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07*£8£6£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06*£14£18£-4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05*£33£31£2£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 28 years

    https://www.facebook.com/IfaYorubaContemporar

    ifayorubacontemporaryarts@gmail.com

    07529780879

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
    GiG Classification
    • Grant-making foundations
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Makes Grants to Individuals
    • Makes Grants to Organisations
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cuba, Germany, Haiti, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Throughout England, Trinidad And Tobago, United States,
    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 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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to IFA Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
    £10,000 20/01/2023
    Tales of Orisa
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
    £10,000 08/02/2021
    NL20:Ark at that!
    Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
    £9,550 30/04/2020
    Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Adapting and staying inclusive
    National Lottery Community Fund - Creation Project
    £10,000 25/01/2019
    12
    This funding will be used to run creative arts projects for families and young people living with disabilities. The project aims to bring people together from different cultural backgrounds and ....more
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ifa - Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust
    £10,000 10/07/2018
    Birchfield Heritage Trail
    Youth Music - The Birchfield Youth Ensemble
    £30,000 09/03/2018
    The Birchfield Youth Ensemble
    National Lottery Community Fund - Connection Through Cultures
    £10,000 04/01/2017
    12
    This project will stage arts and music sessions for local people. This will enable the organisation to engage local people in activities which encourage bringing the community together.
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the project "Osun's Story"
    £2,000 30/07/2008
    Towards the project "Osun's Story" to help with integration of local young people with those from the Yoruba tradition.
    Show more rows

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/05/1996, number: 1055632
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • 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
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • 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
    19 returns made; AR23: 111 days late, AR21: 57 days late, AR15: 115 days late, AR14: 217 days late, AR13: 320 days late, AR12: 57 days late, AR11: 45 days late, AR10: 0 days late, AR08: 48 days late, AR07: 250 days late, AR06: 646 days late, AR05: 145 days late,
    Main office

    31
    Poplar
    Smethwick
    Smethwick
    West Midlands
    B20 3JL

    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN YORUBA ART AND CULTURE BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE CENTRED IN LONDON

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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