Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

EXTANT 

Extant is Britain's leading professional arts company of visually impaired people. Extant's mission is to promote the arts and culture of the visually impaired community through the performing arts. Extant presents an annual programme of Productions and Touring, Research and Development, Education and Youth, and Training.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers 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:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 19 years

www.extant.org.uk

info@extant.org.uk

02078203737

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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£302£333£-31n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£216£199£17n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£186£148£38n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£212£182£30n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£326£390£-64n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£197£202£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£234£209£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£283£247£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£252£282£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£212£169£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£125£132£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£171£177£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£144£148£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£113£96£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09?£113£72£41£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£31£22£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£25£27£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06?£115£123£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05*£104£83£21£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Flintshire, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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£207,000
DCMS£158,870
Esmee Fairbairn£66,000
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£8,200
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Vision Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Extant Enhance
£207,000 09/05/2023
Extant is a professional performing arts company that explores visual impairment to create unique and innovative artistic experiences, placing visually impaired people at the centre of all they do. ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Extant
£6,000 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 20/09/2022
to create an accessible pantomime experience for visually impaired and sighted children and families to tour across the UK
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Extant
£60,000 18/05/2021
Towards project costs to support expansion of Extant’s professional development network, improving career pathways for visually impaired artists.
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Extant
£5,000 24/04/2020
Engaging with marginalised audiences, e.g. disabled, BAME, people living below the minimum poverty threshold for the appreciation of arts, performances or exhibitions; Opportunities, education and ....more
DCMS - NPO 2018-2022
£158,870 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
Vision Foundation - No Dramas workshops
£5,000 04/03/2020
No Dramas: regular, free monthly drama club in London for visually impaired adults
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Extant
£8,200 25/07/2019
purchase of accessability equipment for a charity which works with visually impaired people nationally
National Lottery Community Fund - Home, the way I see it!
£10,000 28/09/2018
12
This funding is for a series of workshops for visually impaired people, aiming to build confidence and teach life skills culminating in a presentation.
National Lottery Community Fund - HOME. The way I see it
£10,000 06/09/2018
1
Project Summary :_x000D_ Extant will carry out theatre and drama workshops with visually impaired people across North Wales._x000D_ What Money is for :_x000D_ This grant for £10,000 will fund ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Extant
£20,000 13/10/2017
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Visually Impaired Theatre Company (VITC)
£10,000 21/09/2016
12
The project will use the funding to deliver an intergenerational drama project that will support the needs of culturally diverse people who have visual impairments. This will improve levels of ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Extant
£60,000 16/11/2015
36
Towards a partnership programme enabling venues in three UK regions to become hubs of expertise in championing visually impaired theatre artists and audiences.
National Lottery Community Fund - Visually Impaired Youth Theatre (VIYT)
£10,000 25/03/2015
12
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Extant
£78,900 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' salary of the Participation Manager at a project providing performing arts workshops for blind and partially sighted people in the Midlands
Nesta - ACE0302
£125,000 30/01/2014
Digital R&D Fund programme grant to Extant Grant Ref ACE0302
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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: 30-59
  • CIARA GOLDING Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Individual Giving Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/2005, number: 1108728
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/08/2004, number: 05195961
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR10: 18 days late, AR05: 30 days late,
Main office

2.06 Carlton Mansions
Brixton House
385 Coldharbour Lane
London
SW9 8GL

Objectives

(A) TO FURTHER THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF THE ARTS AND THE PERFORMING ARTS, THAT ARE EITHER INSPIRED, INSTIGATED, ORGANISED OR FACILITATED WHERE POSSIBLE BY VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.(B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING DISEASE SICKNESS OR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY) AND WHETHER ARISING FROM ANY PUBLIC CALAMITY OR OTHERWISE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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