Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

TOUCHDOWN DANCE 

Touchdown Dance is a professional dance company of visually impaired and sighted dancers. Our aim to provide the opportunity for visually impaired people to participate in dance with sighted or other disabled people. We run workshops in schools, health and art settings and tour in the UK and abroad. We welcome commissions and collaborations. We provide information in Braille and large print.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

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

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*£99£100£-1n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£82£94£-12n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£66£59£7n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£116£119£-3n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19£106£90£16n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£124£114£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£95£95£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£92£85£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£42£33£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£28£27£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£27£31£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£24£21£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£22£23£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£19£26£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£43£32£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£26£27£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£37£34£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£59£54£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years

www.touchdowndance.co.uk

info@touchdowndance.co.uk

07932038730

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Equine Art Therapy Sessions
£4,946 22/04/2022
Equine assisted art therapy sessions for vulnerable young people or adults
National Lottery Community Fund - Touchdown Dance Community project
£86,828 04/03/2022
Funding for the group will enable them to continue to deliver creative arts health and wellbeing sessions in Trafford for adults who are neurodiverse have learning difficulties are deaf and visually ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative arts & wellbeing at Waterside
£10,000 27/08/2021
The funding will be used to run 120 creative sessions for adults with sensory and/or other disabilities. This project aims to support these adults with regaining confidence creating networks with ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Healthy and happy horizons
£2,520 09/07/2021
provide 2 movement and meditation session per week for 12 weeks. These sessions will be open to people within the Trafford community and will be inclusive of those with learning disabilities. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Dance classes for Participants with Sensory and other Disabilities
£10,000 24/01/2020
11
The project will run sessions on memory loss, movement and fitness and sign and singing for adults with sensory and other disabilities. This will enable them to have access to activities in a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Life Story, Sign Song and Dance
£9,982 23/11/2018
12
The project aims to provide opportunities for participants to interact socially and make friends to improve their confidence and develop new skills. The organisation will deliver dance and 'sign ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Alive & Kicking
£9,980 16/03/2017
Alive and Kicking supports personal and community development; supporting individuals to make choices and develop skills beneficial to the local area; charitable fundraising, exercise and gardening. ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Health and Happiness
£9,900 09/11/2015
To support a healthy body and mind project in Stretford. We want to make Stretford “Healthy” through Help, Exercise, Advocacy, Learning, Tasting, Happiness and Yoga. We want to give the most ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - "Sustain Sale's Gem"
£8,713 05/12/2014
To sustain the community dance and cross art form projects delivered in Sale. “Gem” describes each individual, each moment of creativity, each opportunity for experiential learning, the ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to Touchdown Dance
£3,970 12/07/2014
We will deliver training for up to 15 learning disabled, disabled and sensory impaired, adults who can't access further formal training or find employment. This training will support different levels ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative wellbeing for social inclusion
£10,000 25/04/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Manchester. The organisation will use the funding to deliver dance, performance and creative arts sessions in accessible settings for people who cannot ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-61
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/2005, number: 1108741
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/02/2005, number: 05371268
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR23: 43 days late,
Main office

Touchdown Dance
Waterside Arts Centre
Sale
M33 7ZF

Objectives

THE CHARITY SHALL HOLD THE FUNDS AND INCOME THEREOF (INCLUDING ANY INCOME ACCRUING OR ACCRUED AT THE DATE OF SETTLEMENT BUT NOT RECEIVED BY THE PERSON SETTLING THE SAME) UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAID INCOME AND (IF SO OFTEN AS THE CHARITY THINKS FIT) THE WHOLE OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF THE FUNDS AS THEY SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR THE PROMOTION OF ALL FORMS OF ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH BLINDNESS, DEFICIENCY OF SIGHT OR VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL, LEARNING AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, (TOGETHER KNOWN AS THE BENEFICIARIES) AND THE PROVISION OF THE UNDER-MENTIONED SERVICES WITH POWER TO ESTABLISH A CENTRE OR CENTRES FOR SUCH PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM?

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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