Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

CHAIN REACTION THEATRE COMPANY 

Chain Reaction's objectives are to advance the education of young people and adults in particular by:-(i) Devising, Performing and producing original theatre work promoting awareness of health, and social issues.(ii) working with young people as performers and writers.(iii) Working with young people and adults through performance, workshops and media.
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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: 18 years

www.chainreactiontheatre.co.uk

admin@chainreactiontheatre.co.uk

02089819527

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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£151£145£6n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/22£134£142£-8n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/21£186£130£57n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£172£133£38n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£84£116£-32n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/18£154£148£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£182£164£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£155£158£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£170£154£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£153£158£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£140£137£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£156£163£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£140£164£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£166£152£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£124£145£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£207£190£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£139£130£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 7 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,513
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Crowdfunder£3,191
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£3,191 05/09/2022
Covid response
National Lottery Community Fund - Action4Gascoigne
£9,626 15/07/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a youth led social action project for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project aims support confidence new skills and relationships.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Chain Reaction Theatre Company
£2,000 01/02/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Action 4 Gascoigne
£9,987 12/03/2021
10
The funding will be used to deliver a social action project through drama and arts workshops for young people who are living with disadvantage. The project aims to help develop communication self ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 27/05/2020
towards core funding for yearend March 2021 including support of certain activity and measures during the lockdown period providing support and stability critical for vulnerable users (awarded grant ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£1,000 26/03/2020
Towards core costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£30,000 20/03/2020
Chain Reaction - Core funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Action 4 Gascoigne
£9,900 19/09/2019
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Action 4 Gascoigne
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Youth strand
£31,610 01/04/2019
Action4Gasgoigne will support young people to plan and deliver youth social action events for their peers to overcome problems theyve identified on their local estate.
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£8,712 21/01/2019
Girls Support Girls works in line with the Tampon Tax objectives of Improving Health and Well-being and Building Skills and Confidence. Well begin GSG sessions with a variety of drama games where ....more
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Youth strand
£31,610 01/01/2019
Action4Gasgoigne will support young people to plan and deliver youth social action events for their peers to overcome problems theyve identified on their local estate.
Co-Op Foundation - Chain Reaction Theatre Company - Building Connections Youth Strand Project
£63,219 06/12/2018
"Action4Gasgoigne" will support young people to plan and deliver youth social action events for their peers to overcome problems they've identified on their local estate.
National Lottery Community Fund - Action 4 Gascoigne
£9,724 28/02/2018
12
This project will deliver a young people-led action group for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The young people will work together to develop and deliver community events. They will also ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs of the issue-based interactive theatre and media workshops
£1,000 22/03/2017
For core costs of the issue-based interactive theatre and media workshop for young people.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of “Totally Together
£3,500 05/08/2015
Towards the costs of “Totally Together”, a community cohesion project which will be taken schools during the November 2015 Anti-Bullying Week.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Chain Reaction Theatre Company
£30,000 05/12/2012
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towards three years' running costs of a theatre company providing issue based education programmes for disadvantaged young people in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and surrounding areas
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards Totally Together (Celebrating & Understanding Diversity)
£1,500 13/07/2011
Towards Totally Together (Celebrating & Understanding Diversity) – project promoting community cohesion, celebrating difference and tackling racism in East London and Essex.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Chain Reaction Theatre Company
£33,000 29/06/2011
the costs of the delivery staff including management, training, refreshments, venue, travel, marketing, admin, project management and full cost recovery
Woodward Charitable Trust - 'Know Your Mind' awareness project
£4,950 22/02/2010
Towards the "Know Your Mind" drugs and alcohol awareness project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-77
  • MIKE DYER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • NIKKI LEACH (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • SIMON EVES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Creative Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/01/2006, number: 1112701
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/07/2005, number: 05516471
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

Millers House
Three Mill Lane
LONDON
E3 3DU

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) DEVISING/PERFORMING AND PRODUCING ORIGINAL THEATRE WORK PROMOTING AWARENESS OF HEALTH, AND SOCIAL ISSUES.(B) WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AS PERFORMERS AND WRITERS.(C) WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS THROUGH PERFORMANCE, WORKSHOPS AND MEDIA.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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