Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE PARK THEATRE 

Proprietor of The Park Theatre,Clifton Terrace,London N4 3JPArtistic Creation
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 14 years

www.parktheatre.co.uk

info@parktheatre.co.uk

02078706876

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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£1,944£2,486£-542£654£2,281£2,2761150131
31/03/22£2,008£1,769£239£487£2,643£2,60517.73974
31/03/21£1,564£1,186£378£279£2,357£2,32923.6413
31/03/20*£2,154£2,052£102£809£1,877£1,85610.94740
31/03/19£1,778£1,896£-119£905£1,877£1,85611.74850
31/03/18£1,788£1,697£90£850£1,996£1,91613.5410
31/03/17£1,279£1,350£-71£683£1,905£1,86916.6390
31/03/16*£1,354£1,429£-75£449£1,976£1,95516.4330
31/03/15£2,108£821£1,287£45£2,051£2,02329.6120
31/03/14£1,033£999£34£45£764£753970
31/03/13?*£555£110£445£48£729£71878.600
30/11/11*£286£7£279£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/10*£5£0£5£0£0£0NAN00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 43.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 26.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 46%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 11 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 50 employees
  • 131 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
DCMS£715,250
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
City Bridge Trust£36,200
Backstage Trust£23,741
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Park Theatre
£0 06/12/2023
Grant of £20,000 towards upgrade of theatre luminaires to LED. Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870).
Backstage Trust - Core grant
£23,741 14/04/2022
Bringing telephone box-office back in-house
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£200,000 07/03/2022
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 ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 04/02/2022
Park Theatre; continuing to be affordable and accessible for all
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£125,000 26/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Reminiscence - music and drama-based therapy for people with dementia
£10,000 15/10/2021
This project will support older people by delivering a Reminiscence project for people living with dementia in care homes and the community. Consisting of music therapy and theatre-based sessions to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Autumn in the Park Project
£1,300 08/09/2021
The funding will be used to create sessions for primary school aged children to connect with each other and nature following a year of being isolated due to the pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Park Theatre
£36,200 17/09/2020
24
£36,200 over two further and final years (2 x £18,100) for the delivery of accessible performances for disabled audiences, deaf awareness training, and Evac Chair training.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 28/08/2020
Park Theatre Creative Learning
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£15,250 25/06/2020
"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 ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£5,000 08/06/2020
12
The funding will be used to continue the online provision of creative activities for older people living with dementia and their carers.
DCMS - Park Theatre - Culture Recovery Fund
£250,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Park Theatre - CRF Round 2
£125,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to Park Theatre
£2,600 31/12/2018
£2,600 to provide an eco-audit.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Park Theatre
£30,750 28/09/2018
22
Reminiscence Project; utilising theatre to help people with dementia
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Park Theatre
£68,650 27/07/2017
36
£68,650 over three years (£29,250; £21,900; £17,500) for the delivery of accessible performances for disabled audiences; access training; the installation of evacuation chairs; website adaptions ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 27-67
  • RUFUS OLINS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2010, number: 1137223
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/11/2009, number: 07091161
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • 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; AR20: 9 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR13: 169 days late, AR11: 27 days late, AR10: 143 days late,
Main office

Park Theatre
11 Clifton Terrace
London
N4 3JP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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