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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 7
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Very static board: -5
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

ARMONICO CONSORT LIMITED

THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION, THROUGH PUBLIC CONCERTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, IN THE APPRECIATION OF CHORAL, OPERA, BAROQUE AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL AND OTHER LIFE SKILLS FOR THE PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • Why is the Board composition very static?

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates much of its income. Its latest spending amounts to only -274.6% of total funds
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £239,871 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£683£659£25£39£-240£-240-4.410100
31/07/22£738£937£-199£68£-265£-265-3.41155
31/07/21£548£578£-30£61£-66£-66-1.4925
31/07/20*£588£601£-13£75£-35£-35-0.71025
31/07/19£569£550£19£40£-22£-22-0.5820
31/07/18£675£671£4£14£-41£-41-0.790
31/07/17£509£530£-21£14£-46£-46-190
31/07/16£651£624£27£14£-25£-25-0.590
31/07/15£550£520£30£41£-62£-72-1.760
31/07/14£554£526£28£131£-92£-111-2.550
31/07/13£475£439£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/12£472£420£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/11?£601£589£11£53£-209£-226-4.640
31/03/10£499£444£55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£530£670£-140£55£-275£-303-5.440
31/03/08*£415£563£-147n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£384£401£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£173£154£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£132£128£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 420%
Liabilities/Income: 46%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: -4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 21 years

www.armonico.org.uk

LCOUPER@ARMONICO.ORG.UK

01926800109

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£218,846
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,471
Youth Music£23,293
The Foyle Foundation£17,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 22/07/2022
24
Accelerating our work post-pandemic to tackle the crisis in music education
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£17,800 11/07/2022
towards educational workshops and performances for schools and in care homes as part of the A Scarlatti Rediscovered tour
Youth Music - Working with children and staff in SEN settings to improve music education
£23,293 30/10/2021
Working with children and staff in SEN settings to improve music education
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£84,399 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£100,471 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 12/06/2020
"The Coventry Oratorio" - an interactive education, composition and performance project for the city of Coventry
DCMS - Armonico Consort COVID-19 Sustainability Programme
£104,447 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Renewal and Restoration - rebooting music making after lockdown
£30,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 16/05/2018
AC Academy Solihull - providing excellent musical education in areas of deprivation, particularly the North Solihull regeneration area
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • CLAIRE MONKS Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Manager
  • JOHN BOYDEN (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director
  • JONATHAN ROBERT SAMPSON QC Appointed: 2012
  • MALCOLM JOHN CHARLES HARBOUR CBE Appointed: 2015
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/04/2004, number: 1103159
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/07/2003, number: 04851028
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 expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR20: 1 days late, AR09: 25 days late, AR08: 13 days late, AR07: 244 days late, AR06: 8 days late, AR05: 16 days late,
Main office

2 New Street
WARWICK
CV34 4RX

Objectives

3.1 TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, PRIMARILY OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIODS BY PROMOTING OR PARTICIPATING IN PUBLIC CONCERTS:3.2 TO ENCOURAGE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY ORGANISING AND PARTICIPATING INA SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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