Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Fundraising costs low: +3

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

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 10

TOBACCO FACTORY ARTS TRUST

The company's objective is the advancement of the education of the public in the appreciation and understanding of performing and visual arts in all their forms, through the operation and management of the Tobacco Factory Theatre.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 21 years

www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com

theatre@tobaccofactorytheatres.com

01179020345

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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		£1,251	£1,362	£-111	£40	£1,277	£1,229	10.8	35	5
31/03/22		£1,532	£986	£546	£81	£1,387	£1,271	15.5	29	0
31/03/21		£1,066	£812	£254	£60	£841	£788	11.6	33	0
31/03/20		£1,752	£1,900	£-148	£186	£587	£587	3.7	42	5
31/03/19		£2,098	£1,999	£99	£207	£735	£735	4.4	36	12
31/03/18		£2,554	£2,128	£426	£179	£636	£544	3.1	37	0
31/03/17		£2,212	£2,276	£-65	£187	£211	£96	0.5	17	0
31/03/16		£2,116	£2,156	£-40	£192	£275	£29	0.2	17	0
31/03/15		£2,278	£2,220	£58	£187	£315	£205	1.1	17	0
31/03/14	*	£2,112	£1,947	£165	£176	£257	£19	0.1	17	0
31/03/13		£1,726	£1,727	£0	£121	£92	£53	0.4	16	0
31/03/12	*	£1,553	£1,536	£17	£251	£109	£109	0.8	16	0
31/03/11		£1,471	£1,385	£87	£93	£92	£87	0.8	15	0
31/03/10		£1,218	£1,203	£15	£83	£6	£6	0.1	14	0
31/03/09?		£1,068	£1,025	£43	£154	£-10	£-10	-0.1	16	0
30/04/08		£871	£947	£-76	£136	£-53	£-53	-0.7	9	0
30/04/07		£738	£560	£177	£132	£23	£23	0.5	15	0
30/04/06	*	£496	£584	£-89	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/05	*	£529	£594	£-65	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/04		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 33%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 10.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Bristol City,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

35 employees
5 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£428,034
The Foyle Foundation	£50,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£12,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Tobacco Factory Arts Trust
£2,000	13/12/2022	Toward the Get Involved programmes that provide performing arts opportunities for children and young people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Tobacco Factory Arts Trust
£2,000	20/12/2021	Toward the Get Involved programmes that provide performing arts opportunities for children and young people.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£50,000	16/09/2021	to install essential new air conditioning system, needed to increase audience capacity and confidence (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Tobacco Factory Theatres
£61,458	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.
DCMS - Tobacco Factory Theatres - Culture Recovery Fund Application
£246,440	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Tobacco Factory Theatres recovery fund application
£120,136	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Quartet Community Foundation - The Dan Hickey Access Fund
£3,500	05/03/2020 12	Toward an access fund to be held within the Tobacco Factory to be used for any activity that improves access to Tobacco Factory activities and services for disadvantaged young people aged up to 25 ....more Toward an access fund to be held within the Tobacco Factory to be used for any activity that improves access to Tobacco Factory activities and services for disadvantaged young people aged up to 25 years.
Quartet Community Foundation - Young Theatre Makers
£5,000	18/09/2019 9	Toward the cost of running weekly Young Theatre Makers sessions for the benefit children and young people aged 7-19 years, including a set of sessions based at Filwood Community Centre.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Dan Hickey Access Fund
£3,500	18/02/2019 12	Toward an access fund to be held within the Tobacco Factory to be used for any activity that improves access to Tobacco Factory activities and services for disadvantaged young people aged up to 25 ....more Toward an access fund to be held within the Tobacco Factory to be used for any activity that improves access to Tobacco Factory activities and services for disadvantaged young people aged up to 25 years.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Tobacco Factory Arts Trust
£4,000	18/06/2018	As requested by the donor towards the work of the theatre.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Dan Hickey Access Fund
£2,500	27/02/2018 12	Toward a fund to be held within the Tobacco Factory to be used to improve access to Tobacco Factory activities and services for disadvantaged young people aged up to 25 years.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000	28/11/2017	The Capital Redevelopment Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tobacco Factory Arts Trust
£120,000	10/06/2015 36	Towards core costs during a transitional period to a new theatre producing model.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-69

ALISON ELIZABETH EYNON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Teacher

BERTEL KARLL MARTIN (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Finance And Operations Manager

EWEN MACGREGOR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor

JOSEPH BELL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Digital Producer

LAURA MORA KNIGHT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Theatre Producer

MIKE FORREST Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeships: ACTIVE TRAINING AND EDUCATION, BRISTOL BRIDGE CLUB,

RICKY DAVID STONE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Insurance Engineer

SAMUEL ADAM GEORGE CHARLESTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Sound Engineer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/05/2003, number: 1097542
Registered at Companies House on 16/09/2002, number: 04536120

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

20 returns made; AR14: 1 days late, AR12: 27 days late, AR06: 69 days late, AR05: 97 days late,

Main office

Tobacco Factory Arts Trust
The Tobacco Factory
Raleigh Road
BRISTOL
BS3 1TF

Objectives

THE COMPANY'S OBJECT IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS IN ALL OF THEIR FORMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE THE CITY OF BRISTOL.

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