Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 0

TROPICAL ISLES

Tropical Isles is a professional award-winning carnival arts organisation with creativity at its heart. At our East London home, we design and make costumes and create performances working with children and young people, professional designers and choreographers. We believe that through carnival arts we can inspire and drive creativity, that finally contributes to the development of young people.

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A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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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		£90	£110	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22		£203	£190	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21		£117	£113	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/20		£114	£111	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19		£62	£126	£-64	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18	*	£98	£111	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£117	£64	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£64	£76	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£91	£82	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£70	£63	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£52	£48	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£65	£60	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£50	£52	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£55	£59	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£69	£74	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08?	*	£72	£69	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
21/03/06	*	£37	£37	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 22 years

http://www.tropicalislescarnival.org

info@tropicalislescarnival.org

07985154932

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Tropical Isles Young Creative leaders Programme
£9,912	16/09/2022	The funding will be used to deliver a Carnival Arts creative development programme for 80 young people aged 13-18 years old. The project aims to use creative art to build leadership skills improve ....more The funding will be used to deliver a Carnival Arts creative development programme for 80 young people aged 13-18 years old. The project aims to use creative art to build leadership skills improve well-being and personal resilience.
Hackney Council - Grant to Tropical Isles
£10,000	12/05/2022	Tropical Isles Young Creative Leaders programme will celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Carnival Arts movement whilst building the leadership skills, well-being and personal resilience of ....more Tropical Isles Young Creative Leaders programme will celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Carnival Arts movement whilst building the leadership skills, well-being and personal resilience of young people adversely impacted by the pandemic.
Hackney Council - Grant to Tropical Isles
£49,495	28/10/2019 24	Tropical Isles wishes to run a two year programme for 100 disadvantaged and BAME CYP aged 9-25 years to collaborate with professional artists, receive tailored advice and guidance from a case-worker ....more Tropical Isles wishes to run a two year programme for 100 disadvantaged and BAME CYP aged 9-25 years to collaborate with professional artists, receive tailored advice and guidance from a case-worker in order to build employability skills, independence an
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Journey
£9,986	18/01/2019 12	The project will provide youth support services . The aim is to reduce inner city isolation whilst providing educational and creative opportunities.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Gender Split

DEIRDRE SCANTLEBURY

JEFFERY STJEAN

PEGGY PATRICIA MCKENZIE Appointed: 2013

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/02/2002, number: 1090798

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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
Investing charity funds 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

17 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR13: 0 days late, AR09: 179 days late, AR08: 165 days late, AR06: 34 days late,

Main office

The Rose Lipman Building
Studio 8 & 11
43 De Beauvoir Road
Hackney
London
N1 5SF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN IN THE ARTS (MEANING THE MUSICAL, VISUAL, LITERARY, DRAMATIC OR ANY OTHER ARTS PROVIDED IN EACH CASE THEY ARE OF RECOGNISED CULTURAL, AESTHETIC OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE), CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL VALUES OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY.B. TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND INCREASE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ACTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN TO THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HERITAGE OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND SUBJECT OF ARTISTIC MERIT SO THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS MIGHT BE PROMOTED AND THE CONTRIBUTION WHICH A MULTI-RACIAL COMMUNITY HAS TO MAKE TO SOCIETY MIGHT BE ENHANCED, SPECIFICALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HACKNEY - STOKENEWINGTON

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