Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART LIMITED 

Liverpool Biennial is an ongoing platform for research, commissioning and presenting international art, education and debate. Liverpool Biennial Festival brings an international focus to our work. It is the moment when the world comes to Liverpool to engage with our thinking, and when we present art to the world.
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 25 years

www.biennial.com

info@biennial.com

+44 0151 433 9156

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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£1,600£1,095£505£118£1,487£1,17012.8160
31/03/22£1,023£1,596£-573£77£982£8996.8190
31/03/21£1,839£1,202£637£61£1,555£9259.2170
31/03/20£1,353£1,011£342£52£918£6307.5160
31/03/19£1,838£2,251£-412£99£576£5032.7240
31/03/18*£1,701£1,253£448£13£988£8037.7170
31/03/17*£1,617£2,182£-564£31£540£4092.2240
31/03/16*£1,462£937£525£85£1,105£84710.8150
31/03/15£1,484£2,008£-524£33£580£4572.7260
31/03/14*£1,317£907£410£33£1,104£1,02413.6290
31/03/13*£1,366£1,913£-547£25£694£6754.2240
31/03/12*£1,288£844£444£110£1,242£1,12916130
31/03/11*£2,600£2,413£187£104£797£7873.9230
31/03/10£1,714£1,649£65£101£610£5814.2200
31/03/09£3,346£3,449£-103£139£545£4911.7210
31/03/08*£1,882£1,818£63£135£649£890.6170
31/03/07£3,148£2,729£419£93£585£3001.3200
31/03/06*£719£612£107£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£2,832£1,717£1,115£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£533£522£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 12.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 16 months
Quick Ratio: 12.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,

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£1,088,321
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£229,500
The Foyle Foundation£35,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Support for Disabled artists
£229,500 06/03/2023
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art is the largest contemporary visual arts event in the UK. This grant will support Liverpool Biennial to establish a programme with and for disabled practitioners ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£35,000 11/07/2022
towards the of Liverpool Biennial (June – September 2023)
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£802,861 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 - Liverpool Biennial
£285,460 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Communities
£10,000 03/03/2020
5
The funding will be used to run cooking and healthy living workshops for people who experience food poverty. The project aims to connect people with grassroots growing initiatives and how to use ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Time Moves Quickly
£50,000 25/06/2018
12
Through this project, Liverpool Biennial will work with local schoolchildren to produce artworks for an exhibition at Bluecoat, five bench-like sculptures at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, a ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd
£80,000 22/02/2012
Towards 2Up 2Down, an intensive training programme for 'at risk' youth, which will use art and architecture to achieve social change and actively shape the regeneration of Anfield's local community.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd
£40,000 07/10/2009
24
Towards Project costs Towards project delivery costs for 'On the Street' to engage hard to reach youth in redesigning redundant buildings and/or land.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-65
  • DAVID HERON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Civil Engineer
  • SCOTT SMITH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Digital
  • YING TAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Programmes Manager, Collections
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/1999, number: 1073956
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/10/1998, number: 03659361
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 13 days late, AR17: 11 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 5 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR06: 18 days late,
Main office

LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL
55 JORDAN STREET
LIVERPOOL
L1 0BW

Objectives

TO PROVIDE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY CULTIVATING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC TASTE IN THE VISUAL ARTS; INCLUDING CLASSICAL, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND SCULPTURE, AND UNDERTAKING ALL SUCH THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL THERETO. FOR FULL OBJECTS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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