Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 1

THE COMEDY TRUST

Runs Community, Education and Mental Health and Wellbeing programmes throughout the year across Merseyside, NW England and the UK including the annual Liverpool Comedy Festival. The main focus is the ground breaking mental health and well-being programmes that aim to improve health and well-being, boost confidence, self-esteem and help to eradicate the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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

Established: 22 years

www.thecomedytrust.com

info@thecomedytrust.com

0151 702 5893

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
30/04/23		£57	£83	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/04/22	*	£65	£75	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/04/21		£73	£58	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/04/20	*	£76	£96	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/04/19		£112	£83	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/04/18		£79	£79	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/17	*	£101	£86	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/16		£59	£78	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/15		£122	£119	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/14		£81	£85	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/13	*	£79	£70	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/12		£68	£52	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/11	*	£72	£102	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/10		£114	£130	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/09	*	£128	£125	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/08	*	£220	£204	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/07	*	£146	£161	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/06	*	£165	£177	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/05	*	£135	£119	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/04	*	£39	£19	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides services

Where it operates

Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Knowsley, Lancashire, Liverpool City, Scotland, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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 Heritage Fund - Grant to The Comedy Trust
£98,571	09/11/2022	Laugh it Off: The Historical Role of Humour in Liverpool's Resilience
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeling Funny Youth
£9,830	16/04/2021	The funding will be used to deliver comedy workshops for young people in the community who are experiencing poor mental health culminating in live performances where humour will be an alternative ....more The funding will be used to deliver comedy workshops for young people in the community who are experiencing poor mental health culminating in live performances where humour will be an alternative healing mechanism and participants will be encouraged to work with friends in comedy with the aim of promoting positive mental health amongst young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000	16/04/2019	Feeling Funny Youth
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeling Funny Mums
£8,705	26/07/2017 12	The group will deliver comedy workshops for women with mental health issues, focused on those suffering from postnatal depression or perinatal mental health problems. This will provide fun social ....more The group will deliver comedy workshops for women with mental health issues, focused on those suffering from postnatal depression or perinatal mental health problems. This will provide fun social activities to improve the confidence of women, as well as supporting them to talk about their problems, improve their mental wellbeing and move forward with their lives.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Comedy Trust
£10,000	01/02/2016	War and popular entertainment - The importance of entertainment during World War I

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-62

CARMEL BERNADETTE MORGAN, Occupation: Writer

CHE BENJAMIN BURNLEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None

GILLIAN MILLER (Chair) Appointed: 2002, Occupation: Development Manager

IAIN DUNCAN CHRISTIE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Manager

KEVIN DUNN Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Accountant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2002, number: 1093264
Registered at Companies House on 18/04/2002, number: 04420032

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR22: 1 days late, AR20: 68 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR13: 35 days late, AR11: 14 days late, AR09: 18 days late, AR08: 19 days late, AR07: 26 days late, AR06: 141 days late, AR05: 59 days late, AR04: 9 days late,

Main office

Royal Court Theatre
1 Roe Street
Liverpool
L1 1HL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC OF LIVERPOOL OF WORKSHOPS, CLASSES, DISCUSSION FORUMS AND WRITING COMPETITIONS FOR SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND OTHERWISE IN THE ART OF COMIC WRITING, PERFORMANCE AND MOVEMENT WHETHER BY LIVE PERFORMANCE, RADIO,CINEMA, TELEVISION OR ANY OTHER RELATED MEDIA

Defined Area of Benefit:

LIVERPOOL AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

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