Overall GiG Score: 26 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

THE THAMES FESTIVAL TRUST 

Thames Festival Trust's focus is on engaging a wide public in art, heritage, education, environmental and well-being programmes that reveal our rivers' rich natural environment, share their unique history, protect their sustainability, and celebrate the diverse connections they make for us with the wider world.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 25 years

www.thamesfestivaltrust.org

adrian@thamesfestival.org

02079288998

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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
31/12/22£728£561£168£51£520£4108.8624
31/12/21£471£504£-32n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/12/20£555£467£87£54£385£2205.750
31/12/19£940£792£148£52£297£2473.7545
31/12/18£793£722£71£52£149£1111.8439
31/12/17£626£652£-25£40£78£140.350
31/12/16£876£818£58£54£103£250.460
31/12/15*£643£700£-56£61£46£460.840
31/12/14£957£941£16£8£102£1021.370
31/12/13£550£719£-169£6£86£861.470
31/12/12£1,250£1,192£57£8£255£2552.680
30/12/11?*£1,714£1,719£-5£7£198£1981.4100
30/09/10£1,572£1,526£46£6£203£2031.670
30/09/09£1,461£1,418£42£6£156£1561.370
30/09/08£1,504£1,520£-17£7£114£1140.960
30/09/07*£1,297£1,223£74£71£131£1311.360
30/09/06*£880£827£53£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/05£863£948£-85£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/04*£745£736£9£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 8.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 4.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 6 employees
  • 24 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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 Heritage Fund£376,114
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£225,000
DCMS£212,322
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Greater London Authority£50,000
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Rothschild Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 28/11/2023
towards core costs in 2024
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£500 03/08/2023
To engage local residents with art, performance, recycled making and water issues. To bring people already concerned with these issues to Hundslow.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£99,602 07/06/2023
Places of Change: Lodging houses & other spaces in London's Royal Docks, 1855 - 1948
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - River of Hope
£225,000 06/03/2023
River of Hope explores river and water topics, using creative media, visual arts, music and poetry to challenge and provoke classroom discussion, in particular relating to environmental ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£9,951 11/05/2022
A Voyage Through Time: Harland & Wolff in the Royal Docks
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£25,000 14/04/2022
Funding will enable an event called ‘Reflections’, a night-time illuminated flotilla of 150 vessels, which will sail through Central London celebrating the Platinum Jubilee and encouraging ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£96,261 14/02/2022
The Community and Industrial Heritage of Trinity Buoy Wharf and its Environs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 04/02/2022
River of Hope
DCMS - Thames Festival Trust NPO 18-22
£152,760 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 ....more
DCMS - Thames Festival Trust
£59,562 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£98,700 05/03/2020
The Islanders: the industrial and community heritage of Silvertown and North Woolwich
Greater London Authority - Thames Festival Trust
£50,000 28/06/2019
Totally Thames Festival
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£71,600 02/05/2019
Foragers of the Foreshore, a history of mudlarking on the River Thames
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Story of Water
£209,000 13/03/2019
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To develop an arts-based learning project across primary schools in six regions based on local and international water and river themes that addresses Key Stage 2 art and geography curriculum ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£86,700 06/12/2018
The Barking Stink - the industrial heritage of the River Roding
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£83,800 07/03/2018
The Waterman's Race and The Right to Row
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£9,900 10/05/2017
Back to the River
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£80,400 11/01/2017
London's Boatyards
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£76,900 14/01/2016
Life Afloat
Greater London Authority - Grant to Thames Festival Trust
£50,000 10/08/2015
To deliver Totally Thames Festival, 1-30 September 2015
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 48-74
  • ALISTAIR GALE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Corporate Affairs Director
  • AMAR QURESHI Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Major Projects Director
  • KATE SANDARS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Coach & Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/03/1999, number: 1074794
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/06/1998, number: 03577462
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR15: 53 days late, AR11: 30 days late, AR07: 12 days late, AR06: 41 days late, AR04: 89 days late,
Main office

Thames Festival Trust
7 Bell Yard
LONDON
WC2A 2JR

Objectives

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MUSIC AND ARTS(B) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE RIVER THAMES ITS TRIBUTARIES AND ADJOINING AREAS

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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