Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 14

ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION

Improve the quality of life and promote equality through social inclusion & integration of beneficiaries in need by reason of their age, health or disabilities, in particular but not exclusively by providing or assisting with the provision of creative arts and heritage-led educational and recreational activities, helping to reduce isolation & improve physical & mental health & well-being.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 21 years

www.escapearts.org.uk

info@escapearts.org.uk

01789 532110

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/05/23		£409	£385	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	55
31/05/22		£303	£334	£-31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/05/21		£248	£218	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/05/20		£212	£211	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	130
31/05/19		£195	£217	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	143
31/05/18		£199	£246	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/17		£201	£284	£-84	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/16		£304	£301	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/15		£434	£212	£222	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/14		£198	£143	£55	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/13		£167	£155	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/12		£142	£147	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/11		£150	£157	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/10		£135	£121	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/09		£106	£98	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/08	*	£80	£80	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/07?	*	£54	£89	£-36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/06?	*	£90	£71	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/05?	*	£93	£74	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/04		£59	£54	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Warwickshire,

Who it helps

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

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
55 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£96,370
DCMS	£85,336
CAF	£7,277

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Stratford Community Garden - The Colony
£9,917	10/02/2023	The funding will be used to create a new community garden to be developed by youth members and aims to enable these vulnerable young people to practise creativity and give them a sense of ownership.
National Lottery Community Fund - Create Space - Escape on the Go!
£76,453	26/01/2023	This funding will be used to continue and expand the delivery of arts-based support sessions and activities for the benefit of various groups across Warwickshire. It will work with a range of people ....more This funding will be used to continue and expand the delivery of arts-based support sessions and activities for the benefit of various groups across Warwickshire. It will work with a range of people and groups and will focus on supporting those who are facing isolation mental distress complex multiple needs deprivation along with support for asylum seekers and bereaved young people in crisis and domestic violence victims.
National Lottery Community Fund - PLASTIC PLANET - TIME FOR CHANGE
£10,000	09/04/2021	The group will use the funding to raise awareness of environmental issues through arts activities. This will bring people together and help protect the local environment.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£85,336	30/06/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to Escape Community Art in Action Ltd
£7,277	01/05/2020 3	Grant to Escape Community Art in Action Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating Community Wellbeing
£49,945	19/02/2019 36	This funding will help to scale up the group's creative health work and liaise directly with Public Health to provide an evidence base for commissioned cultural health interventions in Warwickshire. ....more This funding will help to scale up the group's creative health work and liaise directly with Public Health to provide an evidence base for commissioned cultural health interventions in Warwickshire. This will create opportunities for people of all ages to engage in creative activities, connect with like-minded people, make new friends and share experiences, encouraging people to keep active, motivated and involved in community life.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Cowshed
£9,492	15/10/2018 12	This funding will be used to modify the facilities at the centre, increasing the capacity of the organisation to serve its community.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Community Heritage Recruits
£3,867	22/09/2017 12	Grant to Escape - Community Art in Action
National Lottery Community Fund - Escape Odyssey - Spaces to Discover, Create and Achieve
£396,422	28/07/2014 61	Not Available

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-75

HARRIET LAURA THROSSELL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Unemployed/Volunteer

KATE DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director

LOUISE SUZANNE SCHMITZ Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Manager

PAUL TAYLOR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Collections Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Other trusteeship: THE DUGDALE SOCIETY,

SAMANTHA WARNER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Barrister

SHARON MARIE WALPOLE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive

STEWART WILLIAM BELL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/05/2003, number: 1097718
Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2002, number: 04441388

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
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

20 returns made; AR08: 61 days late, AR07: 118 days late, AR06: 358 days late, AR05: 179 days late,

Main office

The Old Slaughterhouse
Sheep Street
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
CV37 6EE

Objectives

1. To improve quality of life and promote equality through the social inclusion and integration of beneficiaries who are in need by reason of their age, health inequalities, mental health conditions, physical or learning disabilities, in particular but not exclusively by providing or assisting with the provision of creative arts and heritage-led educational and recreational activities, helping to reduce isolation and improve physical and mental health and wellbeing.2. To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the county of Warwickshire and surrounding area (hereinafter called ‘the area of benefit’)

Defined Area of Benefit:

STRATFORD UPON AVON AND SURROUNDING AREA

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