Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 13
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY THEATRE LIMITED

The main activities of the charity are the running of a learning and community theatre for produced and received work, and also for the use of the theatre space by Univeristy of Derby Theatre Arts students.The charity is engaged with its local community in the provision of facilities to promote and showcase community theatre group work.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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

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
31/07/23£5,075£4,819£256£360£5,876£3,9419.810715
31/07/22£3,364£4,623£-1,259£58£5,388£200.19715
31/07/21£3,375£3,400£-25£0£3,524£3,52412.4370
31/07/20£4,279£4,288£-9£0£2,809£-285-0.8370
31/07/19*£4,231£4,144£87£0£2,799£-311-0.9370
31/07/18*£3,514£3,365£148£0£1,793£-422-1.5400
31/07/17£3,140£2,933£207£0£1,644£-595-2.4370
31/07/16£2,937£2,811£126£0£1,437£-826-3.5370
31/07/15£2,370£2,564£-194£0£1,007£9394.4370
31/07/14£2,291£2,674£-382£0£1,133£1,1335.1210
31/07/13£1,963£2,266£-303£0£1,515£1,5158300
31/07/12£1,212£1,313£-101£0£1,513£-230-2.180
31/07/11£728£712£16£0£1,471£-142-2.420
31/07/10£518£677£-158£229£1,473£-158-2.810

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 34%
Liabilities/Income: 61%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 9.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

https://www.derby.ac.uk/about/about-us-as-a-c

h.blundell@derby.ac.uk

01332591913

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Derby City, Derbyshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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£1,746,904
National Lottery Community Fund£462,942
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£455,800
Esmee Fairbairn£262,433
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£74,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Derby Theatre - Working with our Communities
£462,942 29/06/2023
This funding will enable the project to co-develop a programme of activities with two under-used community venues. The project will work with three targeted lived experience groups; asylum seekers carers of people with dementia and people facing ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Speaking Out
£165,000 06/03/2023
Teachers, support staff and SLT from 6 Derby primary schools will partner with artists from Derby Theatre to learn and embed drama-based and creative approaches to enable students to develop language skills as well as building confidence and ....more
Backstage Trust - Programme Costs grant
£20,000 03/03/2023
Youth Theatre Programme
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to University of Derby
£74,000 02/03/2023
Towards immigration family reunion clinic
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University Of Derby Theatre Limited
£16,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Derby Creative Arts Network
£6,800 18/01/2023
This Derby arts consortium will develop and embed a cross-city approach to making high quality professional performance that works with disengaged communities as active and equal partners, and creates new audiences for locally produced arts.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University Of Derby Theatre Limited
£160,000 21/09/2022
Towards core costs for work with care experienced young people
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University of Derby Theatre Limited
£60,000 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£32,000 07/10/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University of Derby Theatre Limited
£26,433 12/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
£809,628 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: 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 everyone of us has ....more
DCMS - Cultural Recovery Fund
£365,645 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Cultural Recovery Fund 2
£504,631 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Project for Care-experienced CYP
£35,000 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: 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 everyone of us has ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Derby Creative Arts Network
£284,000 16/03/2020
This Derby arts consortium will develop and embed a cross-city approach to making high quality profesional performance that works with disengaged communities as active and equal partners, and creates new audiences for locally produced arts.
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
£795,000 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Low-Cost Precision Optical Micro-Spectrometer for Agricultural and Food Security Applications
£24,979 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133596
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - University of Derby and Techman Engineering Limited
£94,530 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=511319
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - University of Derby and Bloc Graphics Limited
£246,818 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=511413
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - NI MagmaStress: Quantifying the effect of crustal stress states on the style and timing of magmatism in the Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile
£76,275 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S007520/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Research England research Capital England 1819
£295,841 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
£795,000 01/04/2018
National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
£198,750 01/04/2018
To support National Portfolio Organisations 2018-2022
DCMS - Young Person's Performance Fund
£1,000,000 01/04/2018
Young Person's Performance Fund
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University of Derby Theatre Limited
£168,596 24/01/2018
36
Towards the further development of the Plus One arts partnership which works with and for children in care and care leavers in Derbyshire.
Ministry of Defence - Local Grants 2017/18
£18,824 01/04/2017
Community Integration and Local Service Delivery
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University of Derby Theatre Limited
£120,000 27/07/2016
36
Towards core costs to consolidate and further develop the Learning Theatre model.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to University of Derby Theatre Limited
£164,000 18/09/2013
Towards core costs to pilot and develop the Learning Theatre model, in partnership with the University of Derby.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 23-61
  • ELIZABETH GRACE NELSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Student
  • JANE CLAIRE Appointed: 2014
  • JILL ADAMSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director Of Participation
  • KATHRYN MARY MITCHELL Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Vice Chancellor
  • MICHAEL DAVID PINCHBECK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Writer, Theatre-Maker, Lecturer
  • PROFESSOR KEITH ANDREW JOHN MCLAY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Pro Vice Chancellor/Dean
  • SUSAN AMBLER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Interim Finance Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/04/2009, number: 1129005
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/2009, number: 06858792
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 04/23/2024, current status: Small charity
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR19: 246 days late, AR18: 53 days late,
Main office

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
KEDLESTON ROAD
DERBY
DE22 1GB

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC2 TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP ANY ART OR SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT3 TO STUDY AND CONDUCT RESEARCH IN ANY ART OR SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND4 WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, MUSIC AND CINEMA, AND TO RECEIVE, EDUCATE AND TRAIN STUDENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN DRAMA, OPERA, MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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