Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 8

Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 20

STAGETEXT

STAGETEXT provides and promotes the use of captioning systems in arts and entertainment venues to enable deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people to access live performance.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Established: 23 years

www.stagetext.org

finance@stagetext.org

02073770540

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£878	£916	£-38	£42	£252	£246	3.2	7	20
31/03/22	£979	£957	£22	£16	£290	£290	3.6	8	10
31/03/21	£819	£735	£84	£10	£268	£267	4.4	8	19
31/03/20	£751	£760	£-9	£25	£184	£184	2.9	12	18
31/03/19	£742	£732	£10	£27	£192	£192	3.1	8	18
31/03/18	£662	£778	£-117	£33	£183	£162	2.5	9	0
31/03/17	£757	£724	£33	£29	£299	£194	3.2	8	0
31/03/16	£796	£726	£71	£14	£267	£175	2.9	8	0
31/03/15	£735	£732	£3	£21	£196	£146	2.4	8	0
31/03/14	£489	£522	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£544	£552	£-9	£28	£226	£168	3.6	6	0
31/03/12	£477	£488	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£402	£388	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£465	£523	£-58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£774	£726	£48	£4	£290	£147	2.4	7	0
31/03/08	£522	£589	£-67	£4	£242	£159	3.2	8	0
31/03/07	£543	£423	£120	£4	£309	£141	4	7	0
31/03/06	£377	£371	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05?	£223	£161	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/04	£172	£188	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

7 employees
20 volunteers

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	£406,882
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	£31,312
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
The Foyle Foundation	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Expanding and Upskilling our Deaf User Engagement Panel
£10,000	22/07/2022	Funding will be used to carry out a user and ambassador engagement project for the organisation’s user panel. Project aims to increase membership of the panel and upskill members to raise awareness ....more Funding will be used to carry out a user and ambassador engagement project for the organisation’s user panel. Project aims to increase membership of the panel and upskill members to raise awareness of barriers to access of arts and culture for deaf people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	03/06/2022	Stagetext Core Funding
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Open Caption Standards Approach for Accessible Distributed and Immersive Theatre
£31,312	01/01/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10022813
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,836	14/08/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000	24/06/2020	towards core funding support for yearend March 2021 to support the organisation which provides captioning for d/Deaf audiences (including digital content during Covid 19 restrictions)
National Lottery Community Fund - Stagetext - Engaging d/Deaf Older People with Local Theatres
£10,000	22/04/2020 11	The organisation will use the funding to train more stagetext ambassadors to provide captioned matinees and theatre performances for people who are hard of hearing and deaf communities. This will ....more The organisation will use the funding to train more stagetext ambassadors to provide captioned matinees and theatre performances for people who are hard of hearing and deaf communities. This will allow more people to attend the theatre and make it accessible.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022 (SSO)
£273,718	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 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 the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Stagetext - Culture Recovery Fund
£90,828	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Stagetext - CRF2
£32,500	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	07/03/2019	Accessing Arts and Culture
National Lottery Community Fund - Stagetext Outreach Programme
£10,000	02/07/2018 12	The funding will be used to deliver a programme of arts activities that are designed to support people with hearing impairments. The project aims to address isolation and encourage people to become ....more The funding will be used to deliver a programme of arts activities that are designed to support people with hearing impairments. The project aims to address isolation and encourage people to become active in their community.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stagetext
£156,000	24/06/2014	Towards the continuation of the museums and galleries programme and extending the work to include literature events.
Nesta - ACE0311
£124,940	07/04/2014	Digital R&D Fund programme grant to Stagetext Grant Ref ACE0311

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-66

BENJAMIN GUY GLOVER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Freelance

CHRISTOPHER JAMES HENDERSON REID Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Operations

JESSICA NJERI RYAN-NDEGWA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Designer

NINA THOMAS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Freelance Artist

ROBIN SAPHRA Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Lawyer, Other trusteeship: THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE LIMITED,

SARAH ANNA YARWOOD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant

SARAH ELIZABETH BRADLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/01/2001, number: 1084300
Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2000, number: 03995686

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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; all on time

Main office

Mercury Theatre
Balkerne Gate
COLCHESTER
CO1 1PT

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY PROMOTING ACCESS TO ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF OR SUFFER FROM HEARING LOSS BY THE PROVISION OF TEXT-GENERATION SYSTEMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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