Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

Poor Liquidity: -1
Reasonable growth: +1

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

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 19

PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS

Activities: Practice-based research to advance the practice and understanding of art for social justice. Charitable objects: the advancement of education & the relief of poverty anywhere in the world, in particular by the use of the medium of theatre to promote social welfare & to facilitate development projects for the benefit of the public whether directly or in partnership.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/07/23		£1,026	£1,060	£-34	£110	£232	£103	1.2	14	0
31/07/22		£1,106	£1,012	£94	£98	£266	£85	1	16	0
31/07/21		£1,168	£1,099	£69	£92	£173	£67	0.7	6	0
31/07/20	*	£841	£840	£1	£59	£103	£66	0.9	6	0
31/07/19		£762	£738	£25	£84	£103	£69	1.1	5	5
31/07/18		£669	£703	£-34	£0	£78	£66	1.1	4	0
31/07/17		£763	£725	£38	£0	£112	£74	1.2	4	0
31/07/16		£816	£785	£31	£0	£73	£63	1	4	0
31/07/15		£514	£506	£8	£19	£42	£40	0.9	4	0
31/07/14		£411	£403	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/13		£490	£771	£-282	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/12		£1,082	£873	£209	£26	£307	£80	1.1	5	0
31/07/11		£428	£463	£-35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/10		£386	£294	£92	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/09		£229	£223	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/08		£215	£199	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/07	*	£194	£170	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/06	*	£189	£201	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/05	*	£171	£174	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/04	*	£196	£186	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 44%
Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 24 years
(25 years as a company)

www.peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk

rosie.hunter@peoplespalace.org.uk

02078828912

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Italy, Pakistan, Peru, Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£134,576
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£69,400
Esmee Fairbairn	£60,500
The Foyle Foundation	£26,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£16,500	18/09/2023	towards Ageless, a stand alone dance element of a larger project entitled A Very British Rhythm: Ageless
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People's Palace Projects
£5,500	13/02/2023	Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People's Palace Projects
£55,000	23/02/2022 12	Towards core costs for an executive producer post to take forward Museum of Colour’s partnership work exploring and representing the contributions to British arts and culture made by people of colour.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	03/12/2021	towards My Words Response Exhibition with commissions from 20 Global Majority poets & spoken word artists to explore & reinterpret collections at Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to People's Palace Projects
£69,400	13/04/2021	NL20: OM-20-04577
DCMS - People's Palace Projects
£134,576	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 the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....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.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to People's Palace Projects
£74,100	27/11/2018	People of Letters
National Lottery Community Fund - No Feedback UnLTD
£9,965	18/10/2017 12	This project will use a series of workshops to educate participants and the wider community about discrimination and exclusion issues, enabling them to educate schools and community groups in order to identify solutions at the earliest opportunity.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-67

ALISON MARY SUTTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Child Protection Specialist

CATRIN JOHN Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Marketing Director

CHRISTIANE FONTES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Journalist/Executive Director Wri Brazil

KARIM MIJAL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Campaigns, Advocacy & System Innovation

PROFESSOR PENNY GREEN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Professor Of Law And Globalisation

PROFESSOR SCOTT MCCRACKEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Professor

ROWENA LESLEY DEAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Development, Birmingham Museums Trust

SHANE BOYLE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Lecturer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/03/2001, number: 1085607
Registered at Companies House on 27/01/1999, number: 03705562

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR20: 7 days late, AR07: 104 days late, AR06: 186 days late, AR05: 98 days late, AR04: 117 days late,

Main office

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
327 MILE END ROAD
LONDON
E1 4NS

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN PARTICULAR BY THE USE OF THE MEDIUM OF THEATRE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL WELFARE AND TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WHETHER DIRECTLY OR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNMENTAL OR NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND OTHERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

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