Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE GARAGE TRUST LIMITED 

The Garage is a performing arts venue in Norwich, supporting artists, audiences and young people across Norfolk and beyond. We programme professional performance, support artists to make work and deliver dance, drama and music participation activities for all ages. We place an emphasis on talent progression and engaging disadvantaged or vulnerable young people with least access to the arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 21 years

www.thegarage.org.uk

info@thegarage.org.uk

01603283370

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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£1,053£1,141£-88£0£269£1061.123143
31/03/22£1,100£1,053£47£0£357£1001.1110
31/03/21£857£826£32£0£310£1001.4240
31/03/20£1,037£997£40£0£279£991.22217
31/03/19£869£903£-34£0£239£831.11915
31/03/18£855£846£8£0£272£861.2160
31/03/17£753£684£68£0£264£771.4230
31/03/16£691£727£-36£0£196£761.3120
31/03/15£796£798£-2£6£232£891.3130
31/03/14£716£826£-111£5£234£881.3130
31/03/13£762£629£134£7£344£781.590
31/03/12£657£591£66£2£211£731.5110
31/03/11£637£697£-60£2£144£701.2110
31/03/10£531£540£-8£3£204£1463.3100
31/03/09£685£628£57£5£212£490.9110
31/03/08£802£703£99£4£155£180.3100
31/03/07*£328£284£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06?*£95£84£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/05*£19£66£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£252£230£23£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 39%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 39%
Reserves/Spending: 1.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 143 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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£352,200
National Lottery Community Fund£319,657
DCMS£169,974
Youth Music£159,690
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
BBC Children in Need£107,040
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Co-Op Foundation£49,755
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Garage Youth Inclusion Programme
£7,200 18/01/2023
The Garage is a hub and charity for performing arts in Norwich. This grant provides core support for the Youth Inclusion Programme in Norwich and King’s Lynn, including a new approach to community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Co-Design Projects
£269,657 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to provide an art based community intervention scheme for people with mental health challenges people living with disabilities or homeless people. The project aims to create ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Garage Trust
£0 07/12/2022
Grant of £20,000 towards solar array. Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870).
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Garage Trust
£150,000 06/12/2022
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towards three years' costs of providing arts-based intervention programme which supports young people from disadvantaged communities in Norwich and King's Lynn, Norfolk.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 29/11/2022
towards installing solar panels and an efficient new boiler so reducing overheads and improving sustainability
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 07/10/2022
The Workshop, The Garage in King's Lynn
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee Legacy for Jenny Lind
£50,000 03/03/2022
The organisation will use the funding to put on a series of small concerts and a larger celebration event as well as set up a new choir in a local school family singing sessions and performance arts ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Garage Trust Ltd
£80,454 10/08/2021
This project will run creative programmes for disadvantaged children and young people in Norfolk aged 5-18, including dance, drama and music. The project will increase opportunities for positive ....more
Youth Music - Musical Journeys - the next stage
£149,690 28/05/2021
Musical Journeys - the next stage
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Garage Youth Inclusion Programme
£345,000 08/03/2021
The Garage is a hub and charity for performing arts in Norwich. This grant provides core support for the Youth Inclusion Programme in Norwich and King’s Lynn including a new approach to community ....more
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to The Garage Trust
£14,937 19/11/2020
The Old Post Office
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,000 09/09/2020
"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
Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
£10,000 14/05/2020
Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Organisational sustainability
DCMS - The Garage, recovery grant application
£75,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - The Garage recovery fund plus capital
£54,974 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 27/12/2019
Youth Arts Intervention Programmes
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 28/11/2019
towards establishing a new participation programme in Kings Lyn during 2020
Co-Op Foundation - STC Enhance
£49,755 30/09/2019
Support weekly art classes in a community building dedicated to improving people’s lives through art.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Garage Trust Ltd
£26,586 21/05/2019
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This project is an arts based summer play scheme working with children living in a deprived area and experiencing multiple disadvantage including mental health issues. The project aims to build ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£96,474 01/04/2019
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DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£96,474 01/04/2019
.
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to The Garage Trust
£50,000 24/10/2018
12
The Garage Trust provides classes in dance, drama and music, stages high quality productions and runs its own education programme in a purpose built venue in the centre of the town for young people ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Garage Trust Ltd
£119,935 23/10/2018
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This project will run creative programmes for disadvantaged children and young people in Norfolk aged 5-18, including dance, drama and music. The project will increase opportunities for positive ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Performing Arts for disabled individuals
£9,980 23/08/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to run drama, dance and music classes for people with physical and or learning disabilities to bring people together and improve wellbeing.
Youth Music - Musical Journeys
£149,973 11/05/2018
Musical Journeys
National Lottery Community Fund - The Garage develops Diss
£10,000 12/07/2017
12
The funding will be used to run skills-based activity sessions for young and older people to learn new things. The project aims to bring people together, particularly younger people who are not ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£96,474 01/05/2017
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DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£96,474 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£96,474 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£72,356 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£72,356 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Garage Trust Ltd
£37,500 27/01/2012
the salary of the Creative Intervention Manager and project costs including accreditation and evaluation
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 23-74
  • AYLA FULSTOW Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Hotel Receptionist
  • JEREMY GILKS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Certified Chartered Accountant
  • JOANNE WARR Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Head Of Development
  • NADINE ZUBAIR Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Digital Humanities Manager At Uea
  • TIMOTHY BRAIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Hub Development Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/08/2003, number: 1098975
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/08/2002, number: 04510240
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 159 days late, AR06: 4 days late, AR05: 213 days late,
Main office

THE GARAGE
14 CHAPEL FIELD NORTH
NORWICH
NR2 1NY

Objectives

THE CHARITIES OBJECTS ARE: 3.1.1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, PRINCIPALLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, TRAINING, PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF ALL TYPES OF PERFORMING ARTS; AND3.1.2 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ACTIVITIES CONCERNED WITH CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE UPKEEP, MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE CHARITY’S PREMISES; AND3.1.3 TO AID THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND TO AID THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF THE SAID CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ANY CASE, WHETHER OR NOT IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER PARTIES FROM TIME TO TIME AND MAINLY WITHIN THE EASTERN REGION (“THE OBJECTS)

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK

Data Sources

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