Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 15

Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 27

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

Attitude is Everything improves Deaf and disabled people's access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry to implement a Charter of Best Practice across the U.K.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Established: 16 years

www.attitudeiseverything.org.uk

info@attitudeiseverything.org.uk

0203837979

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£766	£655	£112	£63	£481	£481	8.8	11	946
31/03/22	£689	£575	£114	£57	£369	£368	7.7	11	943
31/03/21	£594	£480	£114	£56	£255	£251	6.3	10	851
31/03/20	£557	£522	£35	£66	£141	£104	2.4	10	776
31/03/19	£503	£490	£12	£64	£106	£93	2.3	9	668
31/03/18	£456	£430	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£365	£356	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£339	£361	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£311	£310	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£307	£282	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£255	£262	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£188	£202	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£187	£186	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£223	£226	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£246	£168	£78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 8.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 6.6

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

11 employees
946 volunteers

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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

National Lottery Community Fund	£914,601
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£315,000
DCMS	£254,294
John Ellerman Foundation	£120,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Beyond the Music
£441,904	23/02/2023	The funding will be used to develop accessible and inclusive volunteering and employment opportunities in music and live events for disabled people across England. The project will address ....more The funding will be used to develop accessible and inclusive volunteering and employment opportunities in music and live events for disabled people across England. The project will address under-representation and help disabled people to achieve their potential through growing volunteer/employer networks.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Attitude is Everything: Core funding
£15,000	18/01/2023	Attitude is Everything improves disabled people's access to live music. This grant is part of four-year continuation funding including ongoing support for two key staff roles. This will underpin the ....more Attitude is Everything improves disabled people's access to live music. This grant is part of four-year continuation funding including ongoing support for two key staff roles. This will underpin the organisation's ability to deliver and further develop their key sector support role for the live music industry, ensuring Deaf and disabled experience is at the heart of an accessible reopening for music and other arts events.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core and staff costs to grow Attitude is Everything's campaigning and social justice work
£120,000	28/07/2022	Core and staff costs to grow Attitude is Everything's campaigning and social justice work
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Attitude is Everything: core funding
£300,000	08/03/2021	Attitude is Everything improves disabled people's access to live music This grant is part of four-year continuation funding including ongoing support for two key staff roles. This will underpin the ....more Attitude is Everything improves disabled people's access to live music This grant is part of four-year continuation funding including ongoing support for two key staff roles. This will underpin the organisation's ability to deliver and further develop its key sector support role for the live music industry, ensuring Deaf and disabled experience is at the heart of an accessible reopening for music and other arts events.
DCMS - Attitude is Everything NPO 2018-2022
£254,294	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 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 us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
National Lottery Community Fund - Beyond the Music
£472,697	28/11/2019 47	This project will develop its volunteering programme to address the quality of experience for disabled volunteers as well as the quantity of opportunities. This will address challenges associated ....more This project will develop its volunteering programme to address the quality of experience for disabled volunteers as well as the quantity of opportunities. This will address challenges associated with accessibility through improving the practical, employment and leadership skills of disabled volunteers, and brokering mentoring and work placement opportunities with wider partners.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Breaking the Sound Barriers
£279,000	07/11/2016 48	Attitude is Everything supports the music industry to improve deaf and disabled people's access at music venues and festivals. This grant enables the organisation to develop and expand its ....more Attitude is Everything supports the music industry to improve deaf and disabled people's access at music venues and festivals. This grant enables the organisation to develop and expand its programmes, increasing its evidence base and ability to influence the industry and policy. Attitude is Everything will grow and diversify its team of 'Mystery Shoppers' who rate music events for accessibility, increase relationships with smaller and grassroots venues and increase sign ups to its 'Charter Programme' which recognises good practice around arts access.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-61

ADRIAN CHARLES CALVERT BOSSEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Academic, Other trusteeship: POINT QUAY ASSOCIATION,

BENJAMIN JOHN LUKE PRICE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Music Manager

DANIEL JOHN POUNDER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeships: THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY, UNSEEN (UK),

HANNAH JADE MCKEARNEN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Project Manager

HANNAH PHELAN MCLENNAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Public Affairs

JACQUI ADENIJI-WILLIAMS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Artist

JAMES DRURY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Writer

JANE MARY DYBALL (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Music Industry Executive, Other trusteeship: SUFFOLK ARTLINK,

RACHAEL BURTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Producer

RACHEL POPE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Creative Talent Acquisition,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/12/2007, number: 1121975
Registered at Companies House on 12/10/2007, number: 06397532

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

15 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from ARTSLINE LIMITED on 31/03/2021

Main office

54 CHALTON STREET
LONDON
NW1 1HS

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF IMPROVING DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO MUSIC, WHETHER THEY BE AUDIENCE, STAFF OR ARTISTS.2 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY WORKING WITH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY TO RAISE AWARENESS OF DISABILITY ISSUES AND REMOVE PHYSICAL AND ATTITUDINAL BARRIERS THAT MAY EXIST IN THE SECTOR.3 THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:3.1 THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, GENDER, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION;3.2 ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE ISSUES THAT DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE FACE WITHIN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY;3.3 PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;3.4 CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON DISABILITY EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;3.5 CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF DISABILITY EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.4 IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLEE

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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