Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

SCARABEUS THEATRE 

ORGANISING AND DELIVERING WORK SHOPS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES FROM DEPRIVED BACKGROUNDS, WHO WOULD NORMALLY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SUCH ACTIVITIES.PRODUCING AND TOURING PUBLIC SITE SPECIFIC AERIAL PERFORMANCES MOSTLY PERFORMED FREE OF CHARGE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD NOT NORMALLY ATTEND ARTS ACTIVITIES.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 27 years

www.scarabeus.co.uk

soren@scarabeus.co.uk

02036202325

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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£291£262£29n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£253£222£30n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£183£165£18n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£209£205£4n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19£216£207£8n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£209£176£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£222£208£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£188£187£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£103£96£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£160£186£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£173£140£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£155£169£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£176£178£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£193£187£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£143£144£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£148£126£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£157£156£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£143£153£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£111£105£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£64£70£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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
National Lottery Community Fund£219,994
City Bridge Trust£113,167
John Lyon's Charity£96,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£84,000
Greater London Authority£72,910
DCMS£38,084
The Foyle Foundation£15,000
Cloudesley£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£2,776 21/10/2023
We would like to provide tutors and equipment for our Take Flight project for 13- to 21-year-olds. We teach aerial theatre skills, enabling young people to be creative and improve their wellbeing.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£60,000 02/05/2023
£60,000 over three years (3 x £20,000) towards Scarabeus Aerial Theatre’s programme of aerial theatre with disadvantaged young women.
Cloudesley - Grant to Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£10,000 17/03/2023
Take Flight
National Lottery Community Fund - Take Flight
£10,000 03/02/2023
The funding will be used for circus and aerial theatre workshops for children and young adults living in the community with additional needs and mental health issues. This project aims to improve ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Scarabeus Theatre
£6,000 11/01/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Shifting Point
£64,000 28/11/2022
Scarabeus Theatre uses aerial theatre and circus to engage with vulnerable children, young people and families nationwide. This grant will support Scarabeus to deliver Shifting Point, a partnership ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 21/04/2022
towards the creation and four-venue tour of a new show, Emerging, which will use aerial dance, circus and text to provide a portrayal of the gender transitioning process (awarded grant in response to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Families
£209,994 27/08/2021
The group is using funding for the Flying Families programme which facilitates relationship-building and collaborative problem-solving between children aged 5-10 and their parents/carers. The project ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 30/07/2021
Flying into Physics
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Scarabeus Theatre
£90,000 10/03/2021
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Flying into Physics
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Take Flight with Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£5,612 24/10/2020
We run an exciting programme of weekly classes for young people, teaching aerial and acrobatic skills, cocoons, hoops, and Chinese pole.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£36,092 11/09/2020
towards the expansion of the Take Flight programme and a programme for LGBTQ+ young people and their families, as outlined in your application.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£17,075 14/06/2020
£17,075 towards costs as outlined in your application, excluding fundraising support.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 22/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund
£38,084 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Greater London Authority - Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
£72,910 01/09/2019
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Families
£87,300 23/11/2018
24
A project for parents/carers and pre-school and primary aged children. The group will run a series of sessions where people will learn aerial movement techniques, physical theatre and yoga, take part ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Flying into Physics
£169,000 31/10/2018
24
Flying into Physics is an innovative and engaging approach to teaching KS2 physics, using aerial arts to enable children to experience science in action, seeing and feeling the physics principles ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Families
£9,950 14/05/2018
12
The group will offer parents and children a variety of physical activities which will support families to improve relationships, build self-confidence and improve physical and mental well-being.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Flying into Physics
£46,000 30/01/2017
18
Scarabeus wants to work with teachers and scientists to explore teaching physics through aerial dance. They will work with 120 Year 5 children in four primary schools: one in London and three in ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Scarabeus Theatre
£49,800 03/11/2016
Of Such Stuff our Great Grandmothers Were Made!
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Scarabeus Theatre
£46,800 07/01/2015
The Dark Side of The Moon
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Scarabeus Theatre
£20,000 12/02/2013
Towards the artistic development of puppetry and aerial children's work.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-69
  • JULIA FITZELLE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Learning And Participation
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/07/1997, number: 1063689
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/1997, number: 03319939
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR11: 3 days late, AR09: 17 days late, AR07: 44 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 45 days late,
Main office

Scarabeus Theatre
Caxton House
129 St John's Way
London
N19 3RQ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA, DANCE, AND MIME.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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