Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

DANCE EAST 

To advance the education of the general public and in particular young people throughout the county of Suffolk, with a secondary role within the Eastern region, by the maintenance, development and encouragement of the arts and dance and mime.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £4,479,729 available, equivalent to 29 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 26 years

www.danceeast.co.uk

info@danceeast.co.uk

01473295230

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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£1,855£1,886£-31£133£4,601£4,48028.57541
31/03/22£1,897£1,836£61£191£4,877£4,74531278
31/03/21*£1,888£1,851£37£238£5,074£4,95632.1248
31/03/20*£1,865£2,090£-226£193£5,036£3021.73047
31/03/19£1,801£2,028£-227£166£5,262£5,16730.62630
31/03/18£1,723£1,959£-235£203£5,490£5,38933460
31/03/17£2,261£2,089£172£168£5,581£5,49131.5230
31/03/16£1,940£2,087£-147£225£5,409£5,13329.5240
31/03/15£1,960£1,859£101£214£5,557£5,31834.3230
31/03/14£1,771£1,743£28£130£5,685£5,51238230
31/03/13£2,445£2,308£137£331£5,888£5,70329.7230
31/03/12£1,615£1,931£-316£200£6,002£5,82436.2210
31/03/11£1,740£2,096£-356£356£6,318£6,14035.2190
31/03/10£5,897£1,922£3,974£364£6,674£6,49640.6200
31/03/09£1,629£995£634£124£2,699£1481.8160
31/03/08£1,756£803£954£236£2,065£1402.1190
31/03/07£1,076£749£327£209£1,112£881.4160
31/03/06£784£778£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£851£710£140£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£803£822£-19£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 23%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 28.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 75 employees
  • 41 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,

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£932,590
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£352,713
The Foyle Foundation£45,000
Sport England£2,570
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£45,000 28/11/2023
towards Future Dance Audiences to grow and diversify paying audiences for DanceEast in Ipswich, focusing on groups underrepresented amongst current attenders
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A new territory for dance in schools: a digital pedagogy
£18,713 18/01/2023
DanceEast enables everyone to experience dance. They aim to raise aspirations and transform lives by championing excellence, engaging the public, and inspiring artists. This grant supports DanceEast ....more
Sport England - Springboard Adults Dance Classes
£2,570 15/07/2021
17
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Springboard Adults Dance Classes. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A new territory for dance in schools: a digital pedagogy
£334,000 08/03/2021
Through 'A new territory for dance in schools: a digital pedagogy', DanceEast is creating an accessible, scalable and innovative teaching pedagogy, supporting learning in dance and across the ....more
DCMS - NPO 18-22 2
£825,060 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 - Culture Recovery Fund
£73,080 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund 2
£34,450 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Raising the Barre
£60,000 17/10/2016
21
DanceEast wants to explore whether it can maintain quality (via specialist dance artist input) in blended learning models (those that combine digital and face-to-face delivery) for primary schools. ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Dance East
£50,000 29/04/2009
12
Towards Project costs Towards the artistic and programming costs of the Spiegel Tent tour of East Anglia.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/12/1997, number: 1066825
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/11/1997, number: 03463592
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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; AR21: 16 days late, AR20: 8 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

JERWOOD DANCEHOUSE
FOUNDRY LANE
IPSWICH
IP4 1DW

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, WITH A SECONDARY ROLE WITHIN THE EASTERN REGION, BY THE MAINTENANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS OF DANCE AND MIME.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SUFFOLK

Data Sources

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