Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

PROJECT ART WORKS 

Project Art Works is a unique visual art organization that creates opportunities with and for young people and adults who have complex needs to engage with the world and express themselves through art. Project Art Works is based in Hastings, East Sussex and runs a range of projects, programmes and exhibitions that have a national reach.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 20 years

www.projectartworks.org

info@projectartworks.org

01424423555

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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£1,468£1,154£314£16£1,242£1271.3119
31/03/22£952£922£30£17£928£1702.2114
31/03/21£1,162£709£453£2£898£1021.7113
31/03/20£600£749£-150£0£445£771.21112
31/03/19£931£736£195£2£594£1021.71014
31/03/18£492£568£-76£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£761£451£311£0£475£471.280
31/03/16£416£431£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£457£365£91£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£330£320£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£217£376£-158£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£405£345£61£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£348£279£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£297£244£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£159£193£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£163£152£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£157£174£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£218£96£122£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£138£85£54£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 39%
Liabilities/Income: 55%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 10%
Reserves/Spending: 1.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 20.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Kent, Liverpool City, Milton Keynes, Surrey, Throughout London, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 9 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
Three Guineas Trust£837,925
DCMS£473,350
Esmee Fairbairn£285,000
National Lottery Community Fund£250,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£118,750
Garfield Weston Foundation£95,000
The Rayne Foundation£75,000
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to Project Art Works
£10,000 11/07/2023
Trinity Hall
Three Guineas Trust - Continued funding for support network, new crisis service pilot and core costs
£465,000 15/06/2023
Continued funding for support network, new crisis service pilot, and core costs
Three Guineas Trust - Holiday Playscheme 2023
£12,500 09/05/2023
Holiday Playscheme 2023
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Project Art Works
£15,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strategic core support
£18,750 18/01/2023
Project Art Works are a collective of neurodiverse artists, activists and caregivers. Their programmes evolve through creative practice and contribute to awareness raising in both the cultural and ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£50,000 07/12/2022
Refurbishment of Arche 3 of the premises providing support and training to people with complex support needs
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£50,000 29/11/2022
towards phase of capital works to Arch 3 to support work with adults and children with complex support needs and their families and caregivers
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£3,500 11/11/2022
Funding was provide towards their Art Breaks workshops for children and young people with complex needs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Project Art Works
£150,000 22/06/2022
Towards unrestricted core costs to enable the organisation to develop their model of holistic support for neurodiverse artists and to catalyse wider cultural and social change through national ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£95,000 20/05/2022
The arches capital development (arch 3)
Three Guineas Trust - Holiday Play Scheme 2022
£12,500 19/05/2022
Holiday Play Scheme 2022
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Project Art Works
£25,000 17/02/2022
Recipient of the second edition of the Award for Civic Arts Organisations, given to organisations that have undertaken exceptional civic work during the pandemic and have transformed their ....more
Three Guineas Trust - Holiday Play Scheme 2021
£12,500 23/06/2021
Holiday Play Scheme 2021
National Lottery Community Fund - Art Freedom Care
£250,000 11/02/2021
24
The funding will provide an enhanced a day care programme that provide arts studio-based day care support for individuals with multiple complex needs who are unable to benefit from mainstream ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Project Art Works
£120,000 26/08/2020
24
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards unrestricted core costs to enable the organisation to develop their model of holistic support for neurodivergent artists and to catalyse wider cultural and ....more
Three Guineas Trust - Running costs and development of peer-led support network
£257,425 03/08/2020
Running costs of arts-based provision for autistic children and adults and development of peer-led support network
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£100,000 15/07/2020
12
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme 2020
£10,000 24/06/2020
Summer play scheme 2020
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£3,620 15/06/2020
Project Art Works works with people who have complex needs, their families, carers and services that support them. 'Complex needs' embraces severe learning disability, autism, communication ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Project Art Works to sustain their work to support work addressing Learning Disabilities Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
DCMS - NPO APPLICATION 2018 - 2022
£152,430 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
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund
£137,420 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund
£183,500 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£75,000 09/03/2020
36
Towards core support to underpin a programme of personalised, holistic support to caregivers in order to improve resilience and ensure long term improvements in their lives and wellbeing.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£5,000 18/11/2019
6
Funding was provided towards core costs, supporting the delivery of the in-house programme for young people, adults and the Peer Support Networks for families, carers and support workers.
Three Guineas Trust - Towards the running costs of Parachute Club.
£60,000 12/09/2019
Towards the running costs of Parachute Club, an arts-based programme for adults with autism.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme 2019
£8,000 10/06/2019
Summer play scheme 2019.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£8,000 07/06/2018
Summer play scheme - complex needs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£60,000 13/04/2018
Project Art Works
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthen and Sustain
£175,000 26/02/2018
36
Based in Hastings, Project Art Works is an artist-led organisation that explores and promotes new practical and philosophical approaches to the meaningful involvement of people who have complex ....more
Three Guineas Trust - 2017 Summer play scheme
£8,000 09/06/2017
2017 Summer play scheme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Propel: Creative Solutions for Individuals with Complex Needs and thei
£442,972 31/05/2017
36
This group will develop their project and engage with people with a range of complex learning disabilities, using visual arts activities as a tool to expand communication, build relationships and ....more
Three Guineas Trust - 2016 Summer play scheme
£7,500 21/04/2016
2016 Summer play scheme.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£5,000 28/05/2015
Summer play scheme.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£5,000 20/05/2014
Summer play scheme.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Art of Possibility: Inclusive Studios Project
£135,000 20/11/2013
36
This project aims to support adults with profound learning and multiple disabilities, who also experience chronic social isolation. The service provides one-to-one visual art activities for clients ....more
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£5,000 04/06/2013
Towards general running costs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Art Works
£32,000 26/04/2013
the salary of the Finance and Office Manager
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£5,000 02/07/2012
Summer play scheme general running costs.
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£5,000 07/06/2011
Summer play scheme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Tuesday Studios
£69,285 07/09/2010
36
This project in Hastings works with people with severe neurological and physical impairments, to improve quality of life and interaction with others. Participants will come from different care ....more
Three Guineas Trust - Summer play scheme
£4,500 01/07/2010
Summer play scheme.
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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: 31-65
  • GEMMA PUGH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Independent Marketing Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/06/2004, number: 1104301
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/04/2004, number: 05115045
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
19 returns made; AR06: 2 days late,
Main office

PROJECT ART WORKS
3 ARCH
BRAYBROOKE TERRACE
HASTINGS
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Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERSONS, AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PRACTICE AND STUDY OF ART AS A FORM OF THERAPY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EAST SUSSEX, GREATER LONDON, KENT, SURREY & WEST SUSSEX

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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