Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

MANATON AND EAST DARTMOOR THEATRE 

Community performing arts with a particular emphasis on young people, based in the Dartmoor National Park, but rolling out an education programme covering schools across Devon and beyond.
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
  • 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
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 17 years

www.medtheatre.co.uk

info@medtheatre.co.uk

01647441356

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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£135£144£-9n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£192£155£38n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/21£182£147£35n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/20£131£128£3n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/19£126£114£13n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/18£90£93£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£135£101£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£113£104£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£106£104£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£92£96£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£98£87£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£95£92£3£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/11£87£77£10£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/10£93£90£3£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/09£82£77£5£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/08£55£79£-24£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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£89,802
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£80,325
National Lottery Heritage Fund£31,790
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Manaton and East Dartmoor Theatre
£31,790 02/08/2023
What if...? What would Dartmoor be like if the change to farming had never happened?
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Drama development in rural Devon schools
£3,825 18/01/2023
MED Theatre is a community theatre focusing on rural participation and widening access to high-quality arts. They take inspiration from rural Devon to create original performances with professional ....more
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Everyday Heritage: The Stark Reality of Rural Living Dartmoors Working Class Stories
£8,500 25/08/2022
Everyday Heritage: The Stark Reality of Rural Living Dartmoors Working Class Stories
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Drama development in rural Devon schools
£76,500 14/03/2022
MED Theatre is a community theatre focusing on rural participation and widening access to high-quality arts. They take inspiration from rural Devon to create original performances with professional ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/04/2021
towards core costs for 2021/22
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£51,302 05/10/2020
"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
DCMS - The Future
£30,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 14/02/2020
Core costs
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to MED Theatre
£9,500 08/08/2018
Fundraising and Sustainability
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 25/07/2018
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Moor Connections
£207,000 21/03/2018
36
The funding will be used by a community theatre to support children and young people in rurally isolated communities in Devon. The project aims to bring people together to produce community theatre ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to MED Theatre
£25,500 16/03/2016
The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Last Wolf on Dartmoor
National Lottery Community Fund - Moor Young Voices
£263,118 17/10/2012
60
The Manaton & East Dartmoor Theatre (MED Theatre) will aim to reduce isolation whilst increasing self esteem and confidence amongst young people living in rural areas of Dartmoor and the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to MED Theatre
£75,000 15/12/2010
36
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the core costs of a theatre production company serving dispersed communities on Dartmoor.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to MED Theatre
£68,000 25/06/2008
24
Towards Core costs Towards a community based theatre project delivering Dartmoor Elements, an integrated participatory performing arts and education programme on climate change for communities and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 21-68
  • RAE HOOLE, Occupation: Community Arts Director
  • SAUL JENNER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Intervention Support Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/05/2007, number: 1119302
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/01/2007, number: 06054887
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

11A NEW STREET
MORETONHAMPSTEAD
NR NEWTON ABBOT
TQ13 8PE

Objectives

TO IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF DRAMA BY THE PERFORMANCE OF ORIGINAL PLAYS CREATED BY AND FOR THE LOCALITY AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE ASSOCIATION THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DARTMOOR AREA AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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