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Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

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Overall GiG Score: -50

ARTISTS FIRST

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
31/12/21	£29	£6	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20	£5	£7	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19	£30	£15	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18	£33	£29	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/17	£4	£21	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/16	£2	£19	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/15	£13	£12	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/14	£45	£21	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/13	£16	£12	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/12	£17	£10	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/11	£8	£14	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/10	£9	£15	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/09	£24	£17	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 15 years

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Bristol City,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Artists First
£59,900	10/09/2014	Artists First celebrating 25 years - past, present and future
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Artists First
£21,000	03/04/2012	Towards core support for this user-led collective of learning-disabled artists to support the development of their practice and partnerships.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Artists First
£10,000	25/02/2009 24	Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards core costs to enable a group of artists with learning difficulties to continue to develop their work by meeting their access and artisitc needs.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/02/2009, number: 1128115

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE VISUAL ARTS, BY THE SUPPORT OF DISABLED ARTISTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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