Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 13

FERMYNWOODS CONTEMPORARY ART LIMITED

Fermynwoods Contemporary Art is the leading visual arts organisation in rural North Northamptonshire. An established not-for-profit organisation working only with professional artists, delivering a range of high quality arts, education and outreach services in an area where there are few other cultural opportunities. The company is the main professional provider of such activities in the area.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/24		£220	£237	£-17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/23		£197	£161	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£190	£158	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£157	£127	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20?		£176	£173	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£204	£205	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£158	£183	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£169	£153	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£142	£130	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£122	£138	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£137	£120	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12	*	£140	£146	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£110	£105	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£245	£245	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£223	£212	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years
(19 years as a company)

www.fermynwoods.co.uk

rhona.rowland@vshlaw.co.uk

01832 731257

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Northamptonshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£70,000
Northamptonshire Community Foundation	£69,760
Harpur Trust	£1,755

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Harpur Trust - Grant to Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
£1,755	07/06/2023 12	Dancing with digital - dance and video project for children with special needs
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Creative Climate Conversations
£49,215	15/05/2023	An interconnected series of high quality artistic experiences will use the power of art to help the public engage with and understand the climate crisis and imagine new possibilities for the future. The project will centere around four artist-led ....more An interconnected series of high quality artistic experiences will use the power of art to help the public engage with and understand the climate crisis and imagine new possibilities for the future. The project will centere around four artist-led initiatives.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Sculpture performance, workshops and public kickdown event
£4,989	06/05/2022	To commission internationally renowned artist Aeneas Wilder to create a sculptural performance with the people of Corby.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - connect local school children with nature through a special artist led project
£4,975	30/03/2022	connect local school children with nature through a special artist led project
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - artist led workshops
£4,964	14/12/2021	To provide artist led workshops and experiences to improve their wellbeing and educational attainment
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£70,000	01/12/2021	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - The Night Journey
£3,617	06/07/2021	The Night Journey
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Plastiglomerates and Technofossils
£2,000	03/02/2021	Plastiglomerates and Technofossils
Youth Music - Fermynwoodstock
£10,000	28/06/2018	Fermynwoodstock
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	22/09/2017	Living Legacy
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts
£10,000	08/03/2011	Towards the costs of Encounters, a programme that helps people understand the environment through the arts.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-70

BARBARA DOUGAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Artist And Curator

CHRISTINE GOODWIN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director

GRAHAM KEDDIE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director

JOSHUA ALLEN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Analyst

RHONA MARGARET ROWLAND Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Solicitor

RICHARD CLINTON (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive

VALERIA MEDICI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Student

YASMIN CANVIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Curator

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/02/2008, number: 1122678
Registered at Companies House on 25/04/2005, number: 05434735

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR12: 0 days late,

Main office

VINCENT SYKES & HIGHAM LLP
MONTAGUE HOUSE
1 CHANCERY LANE
THRAPSTON
KETTERING
NN14 4LN

Objectives

1) PROMOTE, ASSIST AND IMPROVE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND 2) ENCOURAGE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES RELATING TO THE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENT AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE VISUAL ARTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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