Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

BERMONDSEY ARTISTS' GROUP 

To provide exhibitions and events at Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery in Southwark Park. To develop community learning projects at both venues involving all people to benefit from experiencing the arts as practitioners and audiences.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 25 years

www.southwarparkgalleries.org

finance@southwarkparkgalleries.org

02072371230

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£296£419£-124n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£382£423£-42n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£250£256£-6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£288£289£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£256£361£-105n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£311£328£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£272£301£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£216£270£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£258£281£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£341£302£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£251£284£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£190£204£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£262£217£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£988£209£779£8£1,329£623.610
31/03/09*£220£216£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£216£212£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£209£243£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£170£199£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£169£184£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£349£212£137£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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£219,431
London Borough of Southwark£41,573
National Lottery Community Fund£7,195
Co-Operative Group£4,240
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Southwark Park Galleries / Bermondsey Artists' Group
£4,240 21/10/2023
We would like to buy a weatherproof sail to ensure that our free gardening sessions for local families living on the adjacent social housing estates can take place irrespective of the weather.
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists Group
£4,759 31/03/2023
Neighbourhoods Fund North East grant from the Environment, Neighbourhoods & Growth department for Allotment Club for Low-Income Families in North-East Southwark
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists Group
£3,000 31/03/2022
Neighbourhoods Fund - North East grant from the Environment & Leisure department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists Group
£3,000 31/03/2022
Neighbourhoods Fund - North East grant from the Environment & Leisure department
National Lottery Community Fund - Seniors Art School
£7,195 18/12/2020
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The funding will be used to deliver a series of art workshops for older people to reduce isolation and loneliness and improve mental well-being during the pandemic.
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists' Group
£21,500 01/04/2020
Culture Grants grant from the Environment & Leisure department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Southwark Park Galleries
£9,314 01/04/2020
Southwark Mayflower 400 grants fund grant from the Environment & Leisure department
DCMS - Bermondsey Artists Group NPO Application
£136,472 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 - Creative Re-emergence Strategy
£82,959 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists Group
£21,500 01/04/2019
Culture Grants grant from the Environment & Leisure department
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Towards its pilot of short courses in the Arts to provide skills-based lear
£24,857 26/11/2018
Towards Testbed Short Courses in the Arts to provide skills-based learning to disadvantaged 13 – 19-year olds in Southwark.
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists' Group
£21,500 01/04/2018
Culture Grants grant from the Environment & Leisure department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists' Group
£21,500 01/04/2017
Arts & Culture grant from the Environment & Social Regeneration department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Bermondsey Artists Group
£28,683 01/04/2016
Arts & Culture grant from the Environment & Leisure department
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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: 32-45
  • MARY WANG Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Finance
  • MOLLY GRAD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Artist & Creative Director
  • ROWENA CHIU Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Gallery Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/02/1999, number: 1073851
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/04/1997, number: 03353857
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 13 days late, AR07: 183 days late, AR05: 15 days late,
Main office

1 Park Approach
Southwark Park
London

Objectives

THE OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL FORMS OF ART, ESPECIALLY IN, BUT NOT NECESSARILY LIMITED TO THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, BUT IN PRACTICE THE ONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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