Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

STREETWISE OPERA 

We use music to help people who have experienced homelessness make positive changes in their lives, to advance the education of the public in the arts in particular but not exclusively in the art of opera. We deliver the following activity in 5 regions of the UK: 1 Opera Productions2 Workshop Programme3 Work Placement Scheme and Progression routes4. Establishing an international network
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 the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 22 years

www.streetwiseopera.org

info@streetwiseopera.org

07951059281

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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£696£652£44£193£259£2594.8130
31/03/22£663£651£11£227£215£2154120
31/03/21£621£598£24£176£204£1833.7164
31/03/20£779£745£34£162£180£1802.91221
31/03/19£854£894£-40£116£146£14622755
31/03/18£836£814£22£88£202£2023210
31/03/17£804£830£-27£83£179£1792.6190
31/03/16*£905£841£65£64£206£2062.9120
31/03/15£582£560£22£91£145£1453.190
31/03/14£559£558£1£100£123£1232.670
31/03/13£675£673£2£93£122£1222.260
31/03/12£482£472£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£664£642£22£81£110£1102.170
31/03/10£392£376£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£386£378£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£316£310£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£271£272£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£213£205£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05?£179£153£26£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/04£91£93£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 27.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 29.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster, Gateshead, Lambeth, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Nottingham City, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 13 employees

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£235,768
Esmee Fairbairn£164,500
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
The Linbury Trust£130,000
Dulverton Trust£105,000
City Bridge Trust£94,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£75,000
The Foyle Foundation£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Evaluation - Streetwise Opera
£130,000 05/10/2023
A grant over three years towards core work supporting homeless people, as well as costs for developing evaluation.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£12,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£75,000 13/10/2022
Re:sound Festival
National Lottery Community Fund - Re:Sound Manchester Community Micro Opera
£9,975 16/09/2022
The funding will be used to develop a new community short opera with homeless people. The project will give homeless people the opportunity to co create this short opera with a professional composer ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£5,500 17/08/2022
purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting people who are homesless in london
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£120,000 22/06/2022
Towards unrestricted core costs to enable Streetwise Opera to lead the way in exploring, redefining and embedding the arts into homeless services
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£94,000 03/05/2022
24
£94,000 over two further and final years (£46,000; £48,000) towards the delivery of services and activities offered to people experiencing homelessness (performers) across London, including ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£54,042 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
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 16/09/2021
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£150,000 06/05/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing creative workshops, mentoring and cultural trips for homeless people and people at risk of homelessness ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£19,200 17/03/2021
10
Streetwise Opera runs music programmes and makes operas with people who are or have been homeless. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,900 15/07/2020
"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
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£3,813 30/06/2020
Cultural Partnership Agreements. The purpose of this funding is to support cultural organisations in Manchester which are delivering the City's priorities and meeting the themes of the Cultural ....more
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£3,813 01/06/2020
Funding is to support cultural organisations in Manchester City which are delivering against the City's priorities and meeting the themes of the Cultural Ambition
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£23,717 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£32,500 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - NPO application
£102,431 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
DCMS - Moving forward
£71,395 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£3,813 17/03/2020
CPA Grant
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£3,813 17/03/2020
CPA Grant
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£4,593 17/03/2020
CPA Grant
National Lottery Community Fund - After Winter - rehearsing and performing a Teesside community opera
£9,875 19/02/2020
1
The funding will be used to support people affected by homelessness in Middlesbrough, to deliver performances of a new opera centred around the story of companionship and community. The aim is to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 15/10/2019
Streetwise Opera - supporting people affected by homelessness through high-quality, high-impact creative activities in 2019/20 and 2020/21
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 20/09/2019
towards development costs of new opera, After Winter (in 2019/20) and remainder towards general donation (in 2020/21)
Dulverton Trust - 2019-22: investing in regional development
£105,000 12/06/2019
2019-22: investing in regional development
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£132,000 21/03/2019
36
£132,000 over three years (£43,000; £44,000; £45,000) towards the delivery of its services and activities offered to people experiencing homelessness across London.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Streetwise Opera: regional development
£290,000 13/03/2019
36
Streetwise Opera is a performing arts charity that supports people with experience of homelessness. This grant will help Streetwise Opera to reach more people, build organisational capacity and ....more
Dulverton Trust - Opera Hours 2019 - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018
£7,500 13/06/2018
Opera Hours 2019 - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018
Manchester City Council - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£3,813 17/03/2018
Cultural partnership Agreements. The purpose of the funding is to support cultural organisations in Manchester City which are delivering against the City's priorities and meeting the themes of the ....more
Dulverton Trust - National Creative Workshop Programme
£30,000 14/02/2018
National Creative Workshop Programme
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£75,000 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing work through the arts for homeless people and people at risk of homelessness in London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Streetwise Opera
£84,000 08/11/2017
Collaborative research, guidance and training on best practice across building-based arts organisations, helping them to adequately welcome homeless people. Cultural venues need support in developing ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£300,000 25/04/2017
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Towards unrestricted core costs in order to support the delivery of arts participation work with homeless and formerly homeless people.
Dulverton Trust - National Creative Workshop Programme
£30,000 15/02/2017
National Creative Workshop Programme
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Streetwise Opera
£240,000 31/05/2016
To initiate a global movement bringing together the arts and homelessness sectors in the first collaborative platform of its kind to connect practitioners worldwide, including Casa da Música in ....more
Dulverton Trust - Streetwise Opera Workshop Programme
£22,000 04/02/2015
Streetwise Opera Workshop Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Streetwise Opera Workshop Programme
£500,000 05/10/2014
36
Not Available
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£180,000 12/12/2013
Towards new staffing and core costs to underpin the delivery of programmes to help homeless people make positive changes in their lives.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Streetwise Opera (North East)
£50,000 11/12/2012
To provide matched funding to encourage support for a programme of music workshops and work placements for people who have experienced homelessness in Tyneside and Teesside.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Opera
£83,821 19/05/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the administrator and project costs.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-70
  • JULIA STRONG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Fundraising Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/2002, number: 1092931
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/2002, number: 04370521
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

35-47 BETHNAL GREEN ROAD
LONDON
E1 6LA

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE ART OF OPERA.(B) THE RELIEF OF NEED OF HOMELESS PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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