Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

NEWHAMPTON ARTS CENTRE

To provide opportunities for engagement and participation in the creative arts by providing - affordable, multi-cultural, arts-based events- comfortable and congenial facilities for the arts at an affordable rent- good quality spaces and opportunities for local people in creative arts, media and related activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£569£692£-123£4£316£2534.4163
31/03/22£601£629£-27£11£439£3206.1130
31/03/21£563£371£192£10£467£37712.2120
31/03/20£591£520£72£9£275£2586120
31/03/19£513£441£73£1£203£2035.580
31/03/18£347£354£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£318£314£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£298£274£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£233£216£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£193£183£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£207£227£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£231£229£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£216£205£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£201£218£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£197£175£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£195£187£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£177£175£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£184£187£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£157£148£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£129£133£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 80%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 5.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 27 years

www.newhamptonarts.co.uk

office@newhamptonarts.co.uk

01902572282

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Art or music based therapy
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wolverhampton,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£311,334
Esmee Fairbairn£75,047
Postcode Local Trust£25,000
The Foyle Foundation£20,200
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£15,620
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Co-Op Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,200 28/11/2023
to cover new sound equipment for the theatre space
Postcode Local Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 03/04/2023
Funding enabled NAC to provide a safe space, open to all to support, connect, celebrate and develop new skills.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 17/06/2022
Newhampton Arts Centre Core Costs 2022-23
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Newhampton Arts Centre
£28,757 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£15,620 17/03/2021
6
Newhampton Arts Centre (NAC) is a creative venue in the heart of Wolverhampton that nurtures new talent and new ideas. They offer a wide range of facilities and opportunities to enjoy and engage in the arts and support thirty resident organisations ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Newhampton Arts Centre STC Expand application
£10,000 18/01/2021
Development of outdoor space for post covid activity.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Newhampton Arts Centre
£46,290 20/08/2020
12
Towards Project costs Towards a community mapping project, working across artforms with the residents of Whitmore Reans, from which a new role for the arts centre will be defined, exploring how it can aid community recovery.
DCMS - NPO 2018-2022
£183,312 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 the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....more
DCMS - Newhampton Arts Centre
£95,151 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Newhampton Arts Centre Culture Recovery Fund 2
£32,871 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Newhampton Arts Centre
£18,750 19/11/2019
24
This project is a creative activity programme working with children living in a deprived area. The project aims to improve problem solving skills, provide access to safe spaces and encourage pride in personal acheivements
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£7,518 03/10/2019
Will explore how their café can be a more inclusive, effective and social space through drop-in events, activities, and skills sharing sessions.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-74
  • CURTIS MILES SHELTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Youth Worker
  • FREDERICK PHILIP RICHINGS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Council Worker
  • JOANNA BLUNT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Local Authority Officer
  • KEITH ANTHONY FRASER Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Community Support Worker
  • LYNN COURT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Management Accountant
  • MARTIN CARTWRIGHT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: University Academic
  • OLIVIA KERR MS Appointed: 2022
  • RYAN TAYLOR Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • RICHARD JAMES ASHWELL Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Further Education Manager
  • SUNITA PALLAN-JHALI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • TOM RODEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Public Relations Consultant
  • WENDY STEPHENS (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/12/1997, number: 1066687
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/1997, number: 03340600
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 36 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

NEWHAMPTON ARTS CENTRE
DUNKLEY STREET
WOLVERHAMPTON
WV1 4AN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND SPECIFICALLY TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE FOR THE SAID COMMUNITY

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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