Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

HORSEBRIDGE ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE 

Our mission is to provide an artistic, cultural and learning resource of excellent quality that is accessible to all.
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 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.thehorsebridge.org.uk

info@thehorsebridge.org.uk

01227281174

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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£193£224£-31n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£177£224£-47n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£309£184£125n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/20£265£261£4n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£228£255£-28n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/18£211£191£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£181£198£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£248£223£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£221£213£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£212£202£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£212£226£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£185£196£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£162£173£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£178£175£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£193£196£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£166£187£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£172£190£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£147£166£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£187£155£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£5£2£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 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£109,609
National Lottery Community Fund£29,564
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
Henry Smith Charity£17,800
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£8,050
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£9,800 05/12/2023
towards one year‘s running costs of the ‘Perfectly Imperfect‘ project, a digital photography group for stroke survivors to support recovery and wellbeing in Whitstable, Kent.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£8,050 04/09/2023
Our War, Their Story
National Lottery Community Fund - Restorative volunteering
£9,920 09/06/2023
The funding will be used to continue to grow this community organisation which delivers accessible arts activities for the local area. The project aims to help combat isolation and improve mental ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 21/04/2022
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Creative
£9,808 10/12/2021
The group will use the funding to provide creative activities for people who may be socially isolated. This will help vulnerable people to make new friends and bring the community together.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 25/09/2020
Adapting and Growing our Services
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,304 23/07/2020
"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
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund application
£75,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund Second Round Application
£25,305 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£8,000 19/03/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of the Young Digital Makers prject for disadvantaged young people in and around Whitstable and Herne bay, East Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Silver Screenings
£9,836 24/07/2019
12
The project will use funding towards staffing costs and new equipment enabling them to continue to run monthly Silver Screening Matinees targeting older and disabled people. The project aims to ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 25/04/2019
towards The Voyage, a summer project for young people
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£49,900 19/02/2019
Pudding Pan Rock - A rediscovery of the heritage by local young people
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£9,200 12/06/2018
Think of Me: A memorial to soldiers of WW1 from Whitstable
National Lottery Community Fund - Historical Waste Map
£8,650 27/03/2018
12
The organisation will deliver a series of summer events including beach cleaning, workshops and the creation of a 3D map made from beach clean waste. The idea of this is to bring the community ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£6,000 14/03/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of digital creative activities created by and for disadvantaged young people in Kent
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 04/12/2017
New Ambitions
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Digital Makers
£56,477 01/11/2017
24
This project will deliver a programme of activity created by and for disadvantaged young people. It will offer training and development with the aim of improving skills and ultimately building a ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre
£9,900 16/05/2017
Time and Tide
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-76
  • MANDY HARE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Cultural Manager
  • ZOE CLOKE (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: It Professional
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/2003, number: 1099570
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/2003, number: 04727071
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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, AR11: 2 days late, AR08: 14 days late, AR04: 60 days late,
Main office

HORSEBRIDGE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTRE
11 HORSEBRIDGE ROAD
WHITSTABLE
CT5 1AF

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ACT FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH A MANNER AS MAY BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:-1. THE PROVISION OF AN ARTS AND COMMUNITY BUILDING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY RESIDING IN WHITSTABLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA;2. THE PROMOTION OF ALL FORMS OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EXHIBITIONS OF ALL FORMS OF ART PERFORMANCES IN THE AREAS OF DRAMA VISUAL ARTS DANCE AND LITERATURE AND THE PROVISION OF OF TEACHING AND TRAINING IN SUCH AREAS;3. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES INFORMATION AND TEACHING FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SPECIALLY BUT NOT LIMITED OT THOSE NOT CURRENTLY PARTICIPATING IN EDUCATION AND WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ACQUISITION OF NEW LEARNING AND EXPERTISE; AND4. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES EITHER RELATED TO THE ABOVE OR OF ANY OTHER KIND AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

WHITSTABLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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