Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

MARLBOROUGH THEATRE PRODUCTIONS LTD 

Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd champions innovation and excellence. Its principal activity and charitable objects are: To advance the Arts for the public benefit by promotion in particular, but not exclusively, of the art of Drama. It is a hub for creation, artistic exchange and performance, and offers collaborative opportunities for participation for Brighton's communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • 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:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£431£602£-171n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£561£238£324£0£415£381.9512
31/03/21?£242£151£90n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/01/20£1£9£-7n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/01/19£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/01/18£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£25£25£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16£68£67£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15£68£67£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£67£67£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/13£143£142£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years
(19 years as a company)

www.marlboroughproductions.org.uk

info@marlboroughproductions.org.uk

07863 561035

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£255,000
DCMS£133,900
Esmee Fairbairn£132,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,190
Sussex Community Foundation£17,000
LGBT Consortium£11,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Marlborough Productions Ltd
£3,000 14/07/2023
Funding was provided for Radical Rhizomes, Marlborough’s social and support network for QTIBIPoC in Brighton and Hove.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£12,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Building a national strategy for the queer arts sector
£15,000 18/01/2023
Marlborough Productions are a leading producer of queer-led, intersectional performance, alternative heritage and radical community gatherings. They grow projects that bring together queer culture ....more
LGBT Consortium - Radical Rhizomes (Marlborough Productions)
£6,400 06/10/2022
Fund Radical Rhizomes, QTIBIPoC social and support network, to run for 2 months while we try to secure more continued funding.
National Lottery Community Fund - Radical Rhizomes
£9,540 05/08/2022
The group will use the funding to provide a range of social activities and workshops for people from the local BAME and LGBTQ+ communities. This will bring people together and help them to reach ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£120,000 22/06/2022
Towards core costs to accelerate the transition to a national producing organisation for LGBTQ+ culture
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£5,000 11/03/2022
12
Funding was provided towards the core running costs of the Radical Rhizomes QTIBIPOC community project.
DCMS - Investment Funds
£25,000 16/12/2021
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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Building a national strategy for the queer arts sector
£240,000 29/11/2021
36
Marlborough Productions are a leading producer of queer-led, intersectional performance, alternative heritage and radical community gatherings. They grow projects that bring together queer culture ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Radical Rhizomes
£9,650 07/05/2021
The funding will be used to continue delivering the group's social activities signposting and healthy meals to people from ethnic backgrounds and from the Queer Trans and Intersex community as well ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£5,000 19/11/2020
5
Funding was provided towards core and project costs.
LGBT Consortium - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£5,000 29/09/2020
Funding for the Radical Rhizomes project, who run a programme of social gatherings and community development to help people stay connected and supported during the covid pandemic, by and for queer, ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,900 07/07/2020
"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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd
£4,000 11/05/2020
Funding will support their service delivery, online events and maintenance of the online network.
DCMS - MTP Cultural Recovery
£62,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - MTP CRF 2
£38,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
LGBT Consortium - Grant to Marlborough Theatre C.I.C & New Writing South
£9,475 10/03/2019
Funding to run "The Coast is Queer", an LGBTQ writers festival in Brighton over 3 days.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-59
  • RAY YOUNG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Artist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/01/2012, number: 1145506
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/08/2004, number: 05202714
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Concorde House
18 Margaret Street
BRIGHTON
BN2 1TS

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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