Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

Working locally, nationally and internationally we advocate for, develop and connect carnival artists at every stage of their development across all carnival art forms. We commission and deliver carnival arts of the highest standards of excellence enabling the UK public to experience the spectacle and magic of Carnival 365 days a year via our programming, digital channels and partner networks.
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£469£551£-81n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22*£380£464£-83n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21*£327£382£-55n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£495£818£-323n/an/an/an/an/a650
31/03/19*£711£901£-190£216£4,877£871.214600
31/03/18*£400£721£-321£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£535£865£-330£17£5,388£1281.8140
31/03/16*£686£929£-243£67£5,718£2673.570
31/03/15£1,007£1,251£-244£334£5,961£3333.2110
31/03/14£976£1,108£-132£167£6,205£3293.6120
31/03/13£1,284£1,654£-370£187£6,336£2732180
31/03/12£1,233£2,015£-782£234£6,706£4852.9160
31/03/11*£1,741£1,709£32£223£7,488£6,94248.7140
31/03/10£2,184£1,587£598£121£7,456£4543.4140
31/03/09*£3,807£964£2,844£54£6,859£3133.9110
31/03/08*£2,679£556£2,123£127£3,984£2244.8110
31/03/07£1,301£387£914£87£1,861£862.770
31/03/06*£1,207£327£880£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£650£650£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years
(26 years as a company)

www.carnivalarts.org.uk

info@carnivalarts.org.uk

01582437100

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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
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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£287,760
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£114,800
National Lottery Heritage Fund£23,200
The Foyle Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 28/04/2023
to deliver in-house carnival costume making programme working in partnership with resident artistic company, Rampage (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Costume design and creation with members of the Eastern European communities.
£4,000 08/02/2023
Eastern European Mas Camp
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Carnival Arts Learning and Participation Programme Supervision
£36,200 05/01/2023
Carnival Arts Learning and Participation Programme Supervision
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Colours of Eid
£3,500 20/01/2022
working with community groups and schools in the proposed ward area, to produce a programme of workshops to deliver next year.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Luton Carnival Access for All Project
£3,500 20/01/2022
UKCCA will work with children, young people and adults with learning and multiple disabilities to engage with Luton Carnival and National Carnival Week. Encourage participate in carnival activities ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Luton Carnival Arts Development Trust
£40,000 25/03/2021
23
Carnival Reaching Out
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Luton Carnival Arts Development Trust Ltd
£23,200 28/08/2020
COVID19: Luton Carnival Arts Development Trust
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£152,760 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - UKCCA - Strategic planning and implementation
£40,000 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - Luton Carnival Recovery
£95,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Luton Carnival Arts Development Trust
£27,600 30/01/2020
12
Carnival Arts Learning and Participation Programme
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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: 43-69
  • ROBERT DJIMA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Investment / Commercial Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/01/2005, number: 1107790
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/03/1998, number: 03525877
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 5 days late, AR21: 1 days late, AR19: 3 days late, AR18: 42 days late, AR17: 406 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR09: 87 days late, AR08: 173 days late, AR06: 21 days late,
Main office

UKCCA
3 ST MARY'S ROAD
LUTON
BEDS
LU1 3JA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND DEVELOP PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION OF AND PARTICIPATION IN CARNIVAL ARTS AND THE CRAFTS AND TRADITIONS WHICH SERVE CARNIVAL ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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