Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 19

THE POETRY ARCHIVE

The Poetry Archive is an online resource, which makes available recordings of significant English-language poets reading their work and surrounds them with a wide range of educational information to help visitors enjoy them.

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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/03/23		£174	£169	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	*	£166	£174	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£158	£138	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£186	£202	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£176	£171	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£230	£203	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17		£193	£276	£-84	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16		£673	£776	£-104	£7	£148	£114	1.8	6
31/03/15?		£939	£1,210	£-272	£28	£252	£159	1.6	5
31/12/13		£771	£956	£-185	£55	£524	£319	4	3
31/12/12		£884	£728	£157	£31	£709	£399	6.6	1
31/12/11		£314	£280	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/10		£466	£358	£108	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/09		£357	£325	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/08		£275	£251	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/07		£367	£252	£115	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/06		£209	£317	£-108	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/05	*	£336	£275	£61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/04		£274	£144	£130	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 22 years

www.poetryarchive.org

admin@poetryarchive.org

07540723523

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£168,065
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£94,300
The Foyle Foundation	£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Poetry Archive
£85,900	05/07/2023	#DYC Access to Poets of India
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	28/04/2023	towards the core costs of producing, cataloguing, archiving and publishing to the website of British Sign Language poetry
DCMS - Transition Fund
£59,489	24/03/2023	In recognition of the challenges facing organisations leaving the National Portfolio and as a way of improving the support we provide to them, we will provide a transition period for those who were ....more In recognition of the challenges facing organisations leaving the National Portfolio and as a way of improving the support we provide to them, we will provide a transition period for those who were National Portfolio Organisations, or funded through Business Plan funding, during the year ended 31 March 2023 and that were not asked to join the 2023-26 Investment Programme.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000	04/04/2022	Poetry Archive Solid Foundation
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Poetry Archive
£8,400	17/07/2020	Covid19:The Poetry Archive
DCMS - NPO 2018
£108,576	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 ....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 The Poetry Archive
£21,800	10/10/2018	Poetry Archive's asset access project
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000	03/05/2017	Poetry Archive New Voices

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-74

BEN MURRAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Content

IMTIAZ DHARKER Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Writer, Other trusteeship: THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION,

STEPHEN CLEARY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Curator

AMY SUSANNA WALKER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Arts Consultant

LAVINIA CAROLINE OSBORNE SINGER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Editor / Publisher

ROBERT WILLLIAM SEATTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Media Producer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/09/2002, number: 1093858
Registered at Companies House on 07/12/2001, number: 04336052

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
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

19 returns made; AR22: 6 days late, AR05: 129 days late,

Main office

Exeter Phoenix
Bradninch Place
Gandy Street
Exeter
EX4 3LS

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT ARE TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN POETRY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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