Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 13
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

CAMDEN PEOPLE'S THEATRE 

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 28 years

www.cptheatre.co.uk

admin@cptheatre.co.uk

02074194841

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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£502£586£-84£0£585£671.4330
31/03/22£777£500£277£0£670£962.3220
31/03/21*£679£343£336£12£393£561.9180
31/03/20£462£479£-18n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£452£461£-9n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£349£365£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£315£297£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£324£297£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£196£193£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£190£174£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£182£170£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£106£102£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£118£123£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£110£110£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£114£123£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£151£96£55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£111£124£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£93£93£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£73£63£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£62£70£-8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 23%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 12%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 33 employees

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£393,949
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£348,400
The Foyle Foundation£80,000
Camden Giving£58,655
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 28/11/2023
towards the 30th anniversary programme in 2024
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for Camden People’s Theatre
£17,400 18/01/2023
Camden People’s Theatre (CPT) is dedicated to supporting emerging artists, especially those making work about social issues that matter right now. This grant supports CPT to deliver their ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 29/07/2022
Camden People's Theatre 22-23 Core Support
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£25,648 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support for Camden People’s Theatre
£261,000 04/10/2021
36
Camden People’s Theatre (CPT) is dedicated to supporting emerging artists, especially those making work about social issues that matter right now. This grant supports CPT to deliver their ....more
Camden Giving - Camden People's Theatre
£18,771 24/05/2021
Webheath TRA
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£70,000 29/07/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - COVID19 Rapid Response Fund Grant to Camden People's Theatre
£2,000 26/04/2020
To enable the organisation to continue to deliver its youth theatre programme remotely to young people from the more disadvantaged areas of Camden.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£71,288 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 - Camden People's Theatre Recovery Strategy
£52,342 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Cultural Capital Kickstart Fund
£211,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Camden People's Theatre Recovery Strategy
£33,671 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Camden Giving - Transforming accessible performances at Camden People's Theatre
£19,942 28/11/2019
10
This project supports CPT’s ambitions to transform its offer of accessible performances for D/deaf / disabled Camden residents.
Camden Giving - Transforming accessible performances at Camden People's Theatre
£19,942 28/11/2019
8
This project supports CPT’s ambitions to transform its offer of accessible performances for D/deaf / disabled Camden residents.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 28/11/2019
towards the redevelopment of the ground and basement floors
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Camden People's Theatre
£29,672 12/10/2018
12
Camden Youth Theatre – an expansion of a proven high quality extra-curricular arts provision for young people living in Camden, particularly in the Somerstown / Regents Park wards.
Camden Giving - Engaging Camden
£54,384 26/07/2018
22
The project enables a year-round community engagement programme that involves, inspires and improves the wellbeing of local Camden and West Euston residents. ‘No Direction Home’ festival about ....more
Camden Giving - Engaging Camden
£54,384 30/06/2018
15
The project enables a year-round community engagement programme that involves, inspires and improves the wellbeing of local Camden and West Euston residents. ‘No Direction Home’ festival about ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - An artist-led approach to increasing the ethnic diversity of audiences
£41,500 30/01/2017
24
CPT will test whether an artist-led approach to audience diversity can motivate audiences from BAME backgrounds currently underrepresented to attend. Further, they aim to gain better understanding of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-54
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/1996, number: 1058723
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/09/1996, number: 03256616
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 42 days late, AR13: 34 days late, AR07: 24 days late, AR05: 404 days late, AR04: 41 days late,
Main office

CAMDEN PEOPLES THEATRE
58-60 HAMPSTEAD ROAD
LONDON
NW1 2PY

Objectives

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

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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