Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 11

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 8

A SPACE : GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

To provide the general public with an ongoing programme of high quality, stimulating artistic experiences and educational activities. The main beneficiaries of the charity's work are the general public and creative communities, primarily in Southampton and surrounding regions.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£357	£679	£-323	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£478	£554	£-76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/21		£540	£389	£151	£6	£1,910	£1,910	58.9	10	5
31/03/20		£1,664	£1,714	£-50	£0	£252	£0	n/a	15	20
31/03/19		£869	£778	£91	£0	£302	£0	n/a	10	3
31/03/18		£337	£302	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£336	£342	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£311	£202	£109	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£214	£216	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£246	£193	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£94	£98	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£93	£95	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£157	£143	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 14 years

www.aspacearts.org.uk

enquiries@aspacearts.org.uk

07824326005

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Hampshire, Southampton City,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 volunteers

Who's supporting 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£103,106
DCMS	£36,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
Esmee Fairbairn	£17,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to A Space: growing creative communities Ltd
£60,106	05/09/2023	Gods House Tower - a sustainable future and a broader range of communities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to A Space: Growing Creative Communities
£9,900	20/10/2022	Gods House Tower - new communities and a sustainable future (consultation)
DCMS - Investment funds
£36,000	01/06/2022	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 ....more 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 access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government to help deliver this vision.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	03/12/2021	Strengthening the organisation to reach more communities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to A Space: Growing Creative Communities
£33,100	10/06/2020	COVID19: A Space:Growing Creative Communities
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to a space arts
£17,600	12/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to A space:growing creative communities
£10,000	14/11/2018 1	God's House Tower - Contemporary Arts & Heritage
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to a space arts
£118,900	18/02/2015 42	Towards a programme manager post and participation programme costs for the redeveloped Gods House Tower.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-70

ANNA SOPHIA MIRCHANDANI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director

DANIEL MATTHEWS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director

ANNIE REILLY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Artist

VICTORIA ORBA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Manager

ZOE GRANT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Artist

MARILYN SCOTT MBE (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Museums Director, Other trusteeship: West Horsley Place Trust,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/06/2010, number: 1136495
Registered at Companies House on 02/09/2009, number: 07007198

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
Investment
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

13 returns made; AR16: 2 days late,

Main office

A Space: Growing Creative Communities Ltd
God's House Tower
Town Quay
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 2NY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, BY DEVELOPING PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF VISUAL ARTS AND BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO, AND THE QUALITY OF, THE VISUAL ARTS, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SOUTHAMPTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTHAMPTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

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