Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD 

Operation of an art gallery and associated facilities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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.hepworthwakefield.org

hello@hepworthwakefield.org

01924247203

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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£3,627£4,073£-446£902£4,167£3,94511.65772
31/03/22£6,253£6,286£-32£944£4,358£4,0847.89159
31/03/21£3,696£2,789£907£401£4,184£3,46014.99496
31/03/20£3,847£3,976£-129£735£3,425£1,5344.610296
31/03/19£4,454£3,487£967£815£3,658£1,9326.657116
31/03/18*£3,715£3,381£333£889£2,698£1,8756.7870
31/03/17*£3,388£3,273£115£766£2,332£1,6976.2780
31/03/16*£3,012£2,926£86£812£2,014£1,4956.1720
31/03/15£2,824£2,939£-115£806£1,921£1,4916.1450
31/03/14£3,488£3,319£169£742£2,117£1,5975.8530
31/03/13£3,664£2,944£720£934£1,932£1,6216.6590
31/03/12£3,665£2,445£1,219£803£1,218£1,1185.5390
31/03/11£744£746£-2£291£-2£-2-0260

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 36.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 22.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 11.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • City Of Wakefield,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 57 employees
  • 72 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£2,637,499
Wolfson Foundation£130,000
John Ellerman Foundation£84,667
Garfield Weston Foundation£75,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
£0 07/12/2022
Grant of £20,000 towards Magdalene Odundo's Asymmetric vessel, 2021. Art Fund contributed £35,000. Grant paid via Art Fund (22052)
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
£0 09/12/2021
Grant of £100,000 towards Ben Nicholson's White relief – Quai d’Auteuil – Paris, 1934-35. Art Fund contributed £500,000. Grant paid via Art Fund (22052)
DCMS - Ben Nicholson Quai D'Auteil
£1,495,000 30/03/2021
The work has been valued at £6m and if THW is not able to raise the hybrid funds to acquire the work for the public, it will be sold to a private buyer. Despite the importance of the work to British ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
£130,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
Leeds Community Foundation - Art Ambassadors
£4,997 05/05/2020
8
Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
DCMS - The Hepworth Wakefield
£922,773 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 ....more
DCMS - THW Recovery Funding Requirement
£146,726 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - THW Recovery Funding Requirement
£73,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 18/06/2019
The Hepworth Wakefield Garden
John Ellerman Foundation - salary of a curator
£84,667 23/05/2019
24
Towards the salaries and professional development of the curatorial team who will contribute to the installation and curation of outdoor sculpture in the new THW Garden
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
£150,000 05/12/2018
Riverside Gallery Garden
Leeds Community Foundation - Art SOS
£4,995 29/10/2018
13
Grant to The Hepworth Wakefield
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing the Integrated Youth Programme
£215,000 25/09/2017
48
This grant will enable the Hepworth Wakefield to develop its youth programme, which targets 11 to 25 year-olds who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training or at risk of becoming so. The ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-81
  • KATIE NUGENT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Global Retail Support
  • SUSAN MAY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Global Artistic Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/09/2010, number: 1138117
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/12/2009, number: 07113861
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk
WAKEFIELD
WF1 5AW

Objectives

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1.TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ART GALLERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;2.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD GALLERY WITHIN WAKEFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS;3.TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE CARE, MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT OF: THE HEPWORTH ESTATE GIFT AND THE WAKEFIELD ART GALLERY FINE ART & SCULPTURE COLLECTIONS (INC. THE GOTT COLLECTION); AND (A) OTHER COLLECTIONS, GROUPINGS, DISPLAYS OR INDIVIDUAL ITEMS FROM ANY OTHER BODY WHICH PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY;4. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE AID, ESTABLISHMENT, FUNDING OR SPONSORSHIP OF BURSARIES, SCHOLARSHIPS OR GRANTS TO ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, INSTITUTION, ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATE BODY FOR THE PURPOSE OF FURTHERING THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY; AND5. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WAKEFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS

Data Sources

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