Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

BARNSLEY CIVIC ENTERPRISE LTD.

The Civic is an artistic, cultural and business hub which provides a contemporary and creative environment offering local visitors and those from further afield a fantastic opportunity to access an extraordinary and diverse selection of visual art, dance, drama, comedy, music and family performances, right in the heart of Barnsley Town Centre.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/03/23£2,457£1,334£1,123£0£5,371£7426.7235
31/03/22*£1,489£1,267£221£0£4,247£4153.92511
31/03/21£1,058£840£218£0£4,026£1872.7254
31/03/20£1,091£1,168£-77£0£3,808£1141.2256
31/03/19£1,015£945£69£0£3,885£911.2225
31/03/18£1,049£1,000£49£18£3,816£1591.9230
31/03/17£968£947£21£0£3,767£1351.7220
31/03/16£890£858£32£0£3,746£1141.6200
31/03/15£952£822£130£62£3,715£1281.9120
31/03/14£818£820£-2£47£3,585£741.1130
31/03/13£866£857£9£73£3,587£430.6100
31/03/12£873£1,016£-142£74£3,578£-7-0.1110
31/03/11£4,487£890£3,598£77£3,720£540.7110
31/03/10£805£683£122£68£122£1021.8110

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 14%
Reserves/Spending: 6.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years
(18 years as a company)

www.barnsleycivic.co.uk

enquiries@barnsleycivic.co.uk

01226327000

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnsley,
Who it helps
  • 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£643,305
Garfield Weston Foundation£105,000
Architectural Heritage Fund£48,120
Esmee Fairbairn£30,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£60,000 07/07/2023
Capital Refurbishment Project
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£45,000 22/04/2022
Future Civic
DCMS - Capital Investment Programme
£422,999 04/03/2022
The Capital Investment Programme is an open access programme to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce ....more
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to Barnsley Civic Enterprise Ltd
£48,120 11/08/2021
The Civic
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Civic, Barnsley
£30,500 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£162,944 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 us is valued and given the chance to flourish and ....more
DCMS - The Civic, Barnsley
£57,362 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 25/04/2019
towards a four week theatre tour of No Horizon in Spring 2020
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£160,000 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Civic, Barnsley
£183,000 23/10/2018
36
Towards the costs of a community engagement programme to develop new audiences.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£160,000 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£40,000 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-67
  • ADAM CLAYDON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • ALISTER KHALIL CHAD ALBERT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Business Process Analyst
  • CAROL COOPER-SMITH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Interim Director
  • CHARLOTTE PEEL (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
  • CLLR ROBERT FROST Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Councillor
  • JACQUELINE WILLSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Academic
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/05/2009, number: 1129765
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/05/2006, number: 05811804
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
14 returns made; AR22: 6 days late,
Main office

Barnsley Civic Enterprise
The Civic
Hanson Street
Barnsley
S70 2HZ

Objectives

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS;(B) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(C) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT;(D) THE RETENTION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF BARNSLEY CIVIC HALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF FURTHERING THE OBJECTS AND THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF OTHER SUCH BUILDINGS OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE; AND(E) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BARNSLEY, AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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