Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

OPEN EYE LIMITED 

Open Eye Gallery champions photography as an art form and a creative practice that is relevant to everyone. We support and promote the practice, enjoyment and understanding of photography. Our cultural programmes create opportunities to experience, and appreciate, distinctive and innovative photography. Open Eye is recognised as a leading UK photography gallery with a strong international profile.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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
Established: 28 years
(49 years as a company)

www.openeye.org.uk

info@openeye.org.uk

01512366768

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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£650£714£-65£11£401£1953.31418
31/03/22£548£550£-2£0£555£4419.61315
31/03/21£504£381£123£0£557£43513.71028
31/03/20£495£529£-34n/an/an/an/an/a47
31/03/19£606£408£198£0£468£41712.31048
31/03/18£440£405£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£350£328£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£283£259£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£267£284£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£282£298£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£281£292£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£343£387£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£818£213£605£6£893£89350.440
31/03/10*£278£168£109£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£276£229£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£222£200£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£193£204£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£236£223£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£199£198£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£204£184£20£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 54%
Liabilities/Income: 73%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 49%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 15.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 14 employees
  • 18 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City,

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
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Open Eye Ltd
£70,822 15/12/2021
Tree Story: A History of Liverpool Through Its Trees
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£246,759 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Culture Co-Authored
£210,000 17/12/2018
36
Open Eye Gallery will further develop its programme of community-based participation and embed this in its core offer, building its understanding of co-authored and socially engaged photography ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Open Eye Gallery
£31,700 27/04/2017
Our North

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-73
  • GARY BRATCHFORD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Senior Lecturer In Photography
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/1996, number: 1056743
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/1975, number: 01204519
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR11: 2 days late, AR10: 11 days late, AR08: 2 days late, AR07: 8 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 16 days late,
Main office

19 Mann Island
LIVERPOOL
L3 1BP

Objectives

ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS IN THE ART OF LENS MEDIA AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPRECIATION. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE APPRECIATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE ART OF THE LENS MEDIA AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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