Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

STOPGAP DANCE COMPANY 

StopGAP Dance Company is a integrated dance company (made up of professional dancers with and without disabilities) that delivers dance workshops and creative training and gives professional dance performances across the UK and abroad. Through dance, StopGAP promotes the possibilities of a society where people with disabilities are fully integrated.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 17 years

www.stopgapdance.com

admin@stopgapdance.com

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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£777£830£-53£89£326£3264.71910
31/03/22£634£629£5£112£379£3797.2189
31/03/21£640£551£89£89£374£3748.1163
31/03/20£709£664£45£0£285£2825.11410
31/03/19£780£637£143£47£239£2394.5157
31/03/18£464£500£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£595£614£-19£76£132£751.5190
31/03/16*£613£616£-3£68£151£1512.9180
31/03/15£622£554£68£130£154£952.180
31/03/14£493£527£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£401£339£62£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£347£341£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£358£336£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£306£287£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£223£222£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£239£249£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 15.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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£128,440
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Community Foundation for Surrey£8,000
BBC Children in Need£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Investment Funds
£40,000 21/03/2023
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 the chance to flourish and where ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£25,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Thrive Dance Academy Programme for Vulnerable Young People
£4,000 22/07/2020
4
Thrive Dance Academy Programme for Vulnerable Young People
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,440 08/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Stopgap Dance Company Ltd
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund 3 weekly dance sessions throughout the school holidays for children with disabilities who are shielding due to Covid-19. The project will help them to improve their ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 28/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£4,000 24/04/2020
Funding toward the salary of 4 freelance dance teachers, for an organisation, based in Waverley that brings together children with physical disabilities and helps them to learn to dance, during the ....more
DCMS - Inclusive Recovery
£55,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/09/2019
Access to Dance
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Stopgap Dance Company Ltd
£29,997 15/03/2019
36
This activity will offer dance classes for disabled young people in Surrey. By attending classes children will build their confidence, improve their teamwork skills and be more physically active.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Stopgap Youth Company
£3,000 11/10/2018
11
Youth Dance Company classes which support dancers with disabilities.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Stopgap Youth Company costs
£4,000 06/02/2017
11
Supporting the cost of dance workshops for disabled young people.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Phase1 for IRIS - Stopgap's inclusive dance syllabus
£60,000 14/12/2015
24
This project will pilot an inclusive dance syllabus aimed at disabled children and young people, to run pilot classes and collect evidence with the aim of publishing a tool-kit to advocate its ....more
Spirit of 2012 - Seafarers
£206,995 07/10/2015
A series of inclusive dance classes in Norfolk to embed into local schools and train local dance teachers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards dance workshops for young disabled people
£1,500 31/01/2013
Towards dance workshops for young disabled people.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2006, number: 1116776
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/04/2006, number: 05793989
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
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR08: 77 days late,
Main office

The Farnham Maltings Association Lt
Bridge Square
FARNHAM
GU9 7QR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DANCE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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