Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

OUTSIDE EDGE THEATRE COMPANY 

Provision of professional theatre presentations, drama interventions, preventions, life skill training, and workshops with and for people affected by addiction (chemical or otherwise)
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 24 years

www.edgetc.org

admin@edgetc.org

02073718020

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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£257£227£30n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/22£266£238£28n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/21£248£193£55n/an/an/an/an/a42
31/03/20£167£125£41n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£124£109£16n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18£103£122£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£110£101£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£71£125£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£109£94£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£110£105£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£84£75£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£82£51£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£74£69£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£59£47£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£42£39£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£31£33£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£39£37£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£85£79£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£69£75£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£84£82£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 28 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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£131,767
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£22,479
The London Community Foundation£18,300
The Baring Foundation£12,000
Greater London Authority£10,000
City Bridge Trust£6,450
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 18/03/2022
Outside Edge Theatre Company - Core Costs 2022/23-2024/25
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Outside Edge Theatre Company - 02/11/21
£1,250 08/12/2021
Core Funding
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£33,166 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company
£18,300 30/09/2020
To support the mental health/reduce isolation of recovering addicts and prevent relapse through high-quality peer-led drama sessions.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£18,300 30/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company
£12,000 14/09/2020
Funding will help us to close our shortfall and enter 2021/22 in a healthy position to continue developing & delivering innovative participatory work.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 14/08/2020
Core Costs for Outside Edge Theatre Company's Drama Activities for People Affected By Addiction
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company
£6,450 05/08/2020
towards the cost of mobile internet and devices for 25 digitally excluded participants, excluding the cost of existing salaries
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,920 29/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to The Outside Edge
£7,479 23/07/2020
Grant to The Outside Edge meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
CAF - Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company
£5,000 28/05/2020
3
Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - Outside Edge Theatre Company CRF Application
£49,381 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Greater London Authority - Outside Edge Theatre Company
£10,000 02/12/2019
Small Grants Programme 2019/20
London Catalyst - Outside Edge Theatre Company - 2
£2,500 26/09/2019
Expansion of Five Ways to Wellbeing Drama Taster Sessions in treatment facilities to include creative writing and longer-term in-depth learning.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Outside Edge
£15,000 20/09/2019
12
The Outside Edge Theatre Company would like to hire a fundraiser to develop a fundraising strategy, diversify and increase its income and build its sustainability allowing it to increase its work and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 07/03/2019
Outside Edge Theatre Company - Core Staffing Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Re-write
£9,856 09/08/2017
12
This project will deliver writing workshops for families and individuals who have been affected by or are recovering from substance use, in order to improve their wellbeing.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Outside Edge Theatre Company
£90,000 08/09/2016
36
towards three years' salaries of the General Manager and Assistant Administrator at a project providing drama-based rehabilitation services to young people affected by drug or alcohol addiction in ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Outside Edge
£31,200 24/11/2011
the salary of the Administrator and Sessional Worker fees
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-64
  • MARY BALLARD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Internal Audit Professional
  • MICHAEL ANGUS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director, Barons Court Project
  • POPPY REINDORP Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Corporate Partnerships And Events Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/05/2000, number: 1080948
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/11/1999, number: 03871591
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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; AR16: 16 days late, AR06: 60 days late, AR05: 29 days late, AR04: 67 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE CARNE TRUST on 04/05/2023
Main office

Brady Arts & Community Centre
192-196 Hanbury Street
London
E1 5HU

Objectives

1. TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND REHABILITATION FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE DEPENDENT OR OTHERWISE AFFECTED BY DRUG OR ALCOHOL ADDICTION THROUGH PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEATRE CRAFTS. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH A VIEW TO PREVENTING PERSONS BECOMING DEPENDENT OR OTHERWISE AFFECTED BY DRUG OR ALCOHOL ADDICTION THROUGH PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEATRE CRAFTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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