Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

NORTHERN ROOTS 

Northern Roots promotes in excess of 100 concerts a year in reggae, soul, blues, in Newcastle and Gateshead.The organisation has since the late 198O's worked hard to attract a culturally diverse audience to our concerts. We have developed mentoring projects with refugees as well as work with young people in culturally diverse schools. .
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 16 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 22 years
(26 years as a company)

www.northern-roots.org.uk

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07974078424

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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£154£200£-47n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£228£160£68n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£118£78£40n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/20£135£139£-4n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£124£128£-4n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/18£194£225£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£176£157£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£134£126£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£145£127£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£108£113£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£123£138£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£164£153£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£129£120£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£135£136£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£221£221£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£268£269£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£301£304£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£264£264£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£180£174£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£99£99£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Who works here?
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City,

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
Youth Music£105,000
DCMS£80,281
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£33,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£16,950
The Shears Foundation£10,000
Allen Lane Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Northern Roots
£5,000 01/11/2022
Empowering diverse individuals to create great art and deliver community work.
National Lottery Community Fund - Commonwealth Heritage
£10,000 08/04/2022
The funding will be used to provide training and support to a group of young creatives of Commonwealth heritage. The project aims to support the group to reach their potential in developing ....more
Youth Music - Recharge Fund
£45,000 28/03/2022
Recharge Fund
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Northern Roots
£2,000 24/03/2022
The Tyne and Wear High Sheriff Second Place Award
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Northern Roots
£10,000 17/03/2022
Supporting young people across Newcastle to develop skills in the arts
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Northern Roots
£750 20/01/2022
Supporting black and ethnic minority young people from Gateshead at risk of offending
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Northern Roots
£7,500 05/11/2021
£7,500 single grant towards the salary costs to expand an existing offenders project in Gateshead.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£37,593 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Young BAME offenders
£10,000 08/10/2021
The funding will provide creative writing and music creation support for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds who are at risk of offending or are within the criminal justice system. This ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Northern Roots
£1,950 23/09/2021
Running costs to develop a new mentoring project which engages unemployed Gateshead residents
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Northern Roots
£1,500 20/05/2021
Running costs to work with a group of 20 young people to develop their skills in creative writing and music creation across Tyneside
Youth Music - BAME Management Programme
£30,000 26/04/2021
BAME Management Programme
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - musical mentoring for young people in the West End of Newcastle
£5,000 18/03/2021
musical mentoring for young people in the West End of Newcastle
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - creative workshops to engage young people in Newcastle who are at risk of offending
£750 28/01/2021
creative workshops to engage young people in Newcastle who are at risk of offending
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - running costs for a BAME mentoring project
£5,000 08/10/2020
running costs for a BAME mentoring project
Youth Music - BAME led young offenders initiative
£30,000 01/07/2020
BAME led young offenders initiative
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting two BAME community leaders to work intensively with 30 young vulnerable BAME people in their own community during the Covid-19 pandemic
£5,000 05/06/2020
Supporting two BAME community leaders to work intensively with 30 young vulnerable BAME people in their own community during the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting two BAME community leaders to work intensively with 30 young vulnerable BAME people in their own community during the Covid-19 pandemic
£5,000 04/06/2020
supporting two BAME community leaders to work intensively with 30 young vulnerable BAME people in their own community during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Shears Foundation - Northern Roots
£5,000 15/04/2020
Empowering diverse individuals to create great art and deliver community work.
DCMS - CRF Northern Roots
£42,688 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Providing training for staff and board members and purchasing computer equipment
£10,000 06/03/2020
Providing training for staff and board members and purchasing computer equipment
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Running costs for a project to train and mentor BAME people including refugees to help make a positive impact on their community through arts
£3,000 28/02/2020
Running costs for a project to train and mentor BAME people including refugees to help make a positive impact on their community through arts
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Inspiring a new generation
£2,500 16/08/2018
Inspiring a new generation
National Lottery Community Fund - Voices of Freedom
£9,850 26/04/2017
12
The project will create performance opportunities for a local choir whose members are primarily African migrants. They will provide mentoring and learning support and workshops for the choir, build ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Decadance; part of Freedom City 2017
£5,000 01/04/2017
Decadance; part of Freedom City 2017
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Decadance; part of Freedom City 2017 Yr 1
£10,000 01/04/2016
Towards Decadance; part of Freedom City 2017 Yr 1
National Lottery Community Fund - North East Refugee Employment Initiative
£10,000 10/10/2013
12
This charity in Gateshead will use the funding to provide a mentoring service for refugees, teaching them employment skills and supporting them to be able to integrate into their new communities. ....more
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Northern Roots (Tyne & Wear)
£2,500 21/03/2013
36
To employ a consultant to assist with a fundraising strategy over the next three years.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (16)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
  • KIM DUBOIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Team Leader African American Centre
  • LILA JOY NARUSE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Dance Artist & Massage Therapist
  • REBECCA MATHER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Musician, Theatre Maker, Researcher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2001, number: 1088823
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/04/1998, number: 03539586
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR10: 26 days late, AR09: 54 days late, AR08: 132 days late, AR07: 44 days late, AR06: 53 days late, AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 82 days late,
Main office

Office 44
Northern Roots
63
High Bridge
Newcastl

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE ARTS IN SOCIETY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BUT IN PARTICULAR THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND BY DEVELOPING PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND BY IMPROVING PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE ARTS AND THE QUALITY OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY:- (1) FACILITATING AND IMPROVING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BLUES, ROOTS, JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE; (2) IMPROVING STANDARDS OF EXECUTION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BLUES, ROOTS, JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE; (3) ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING IN PROMOTING AND ADVANCING THE PRACTICE, PRESENTATION, ENJOYMENT AND STUDY OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BLUES, ROOTS, JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE; AND (4) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BLUES, ROOTS, JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS, FESTIVALS AND OTHER PARTICIPATORY MUSICAL AND DANCE ACTIVITIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM BUT IN PARTICULAR THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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