Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

CREATE LONDON

The charity's main aim is to help improve the popularity of cultural events within the main east London area and, in particular, within younger age groups who traditionally do not have a track record of attendance at or involvement in such events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£629£944£-316£54£284£1501.9120
31/03/22£1,836£1,816£20£23£600£2741.8130
31/03/21£730£956£-225£34£580£2583.2130
31/03/20£966£804£162£37£805£2393.6130
31/03/19£1,063£756£306£35£643£2213.5130
31/03/18£929£1,058£-129£44£337£2312.6120
31/03/17*£1,021£997£25£40£466£2172.6100
31/03/16*£1,286£1,088£198£0£441£181290
31/03/15£844£1,024£-180£82£243£1391.690
31/03/14£1,289£970£319£74£423£951.270
31/03/13£1,811£1,706£104£46£104£250.250

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 17%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 6.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 13 years

www.createlondon.org

info@createlondon.org

07817178624

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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
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • 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£309,428
National Lottery Heritage Fund£173,526
City Bridge Trust£82,543
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£56,000
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Esmee Fairbairn£18,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Create London
£51,293 22/01/2024
24
£51,293 over 2 years (£25,020; £26,273) towards the salaries, workshops, community events costs of community garden at TWH
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Create London
£173,526 03/05/2023
Breaking Waves: A living archive of Thames Ward through the lens of The Great Flood 1953-2023
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Create London
£3,000 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 20/09/2022
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CREATE London
£31,250 28/05/2020
A grant of £31,250 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£56,000 20/05/2020
12
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Create London
£15,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
£152,760 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 - Create - Culture Recovery Fund
£104,668 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Create - CRF Round 2
£52,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CREATE London
£58,000 25/07/2019
36
£58,000 over 3 further and final years (£19,900; £19,900; £18,200) towards the salaries, management and running costs of the community garden at TWH.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Create London
£43,400 29/03/2019
The Dividing Line: Learning from the Newham monitoring project & youth movement
National Lottery Community Fund - The Front Room Programme
£9,990 30/01/2019
12
The project aims to bring people together through creative activities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Create London
£90,000 23/01/2019
60
Towards 'A House for Artists’ and its pilot public programme, providing year-round arts, education and community activities and a template for sustainable community centres and affordable, long-term housing for artists.
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Create London
£40,000 03/12/2018
36
Towards a pilot public programme as part of 'A House for Artists', a new residential space for artists in Barking Town Centre.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Create London
£448,000 27/11/2018
Living Together: 100 years of British social housing, through the lens of the Becontree Estate
National Lottery Community Fund - The Green Station
£98,944 21/03/2018
12
This project will provide a green space and volunteering opportunities for people resident in North Woolwich by regenerating disused land next to an unoccupied railway station. Once works have taken place, community barbeques, lunches and suppers ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 18/01/2018
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 18/01/2018
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 18/01/2018
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 18/01/2018
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 18/01/2018
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 31/12/2017
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 31/12/2017
The Green Station
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£35,000 31/12/2017
The Green Station
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The White House: An Art Space for Community Development
£168,000 25/09/2017
36
This grant will support Create London to establish the White House, located within the Becontree Estate in Dagenham, as a permanent space for artist-led social practice in collaboration with local communities. More and better funding will expand ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£60,000 18/09/2017
36
We Can Create
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Create London
£84,300 01/12/2016
The History and Legacy of the Walthamstow School of Art
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CREATE London
£42,400 24/11/2016
24
£42,400 over two years (£25,900, £16,500) for the salary of the part-time (14hpw) White House Garden Coordinator, planting initiatives, volunteer expenses and associated project costs for work at the White House.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Panic! 2015 - What Happened to Social Mobility in the Arts?
£5,000 18/01/2016
6
Core support towards a season of music, film, art and debate investigating the state – and the inequalities – of the cultural sector in the UK and discussing its inequalities. This programme reflected on the findings of a new national survey, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The White House Live/Work and Widening Participation Programme
£55,253 17/11/2015
6
Create London is an independent charity, principally funded by ACE and Legacy Trust UK, with a strong track record of bringing art to communities in East London. They will bring the Grade II-listed White House in Becontree back into use to provide ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Create London
£46,000 08/10/2015
Interpreting the Heritage of Hardy Amies
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create London
£7,500 02/09/2015
Increasing group volunteering and supporting skills based volunteering
Greater London Authority - Grant to Create
£15,500 10/06/2015
Chicken Town project to improve diets by introducing alternatives
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-59
  • CAREY KATE ROBINSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Learning And Participation, Fitzwilliam
  • CAROLINE MCGINN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Editor
  • CHRIS KENNEDY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Councillor
  • FRASER JOPP Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Accountant
  • ILONA ANNE HARRIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Commercial, Weald & Downland Living Museum
  • KERRY BISHOP Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • ROHIT DASGUPTA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Councillor
  • ROSALIND DORE Appointed: 2022
  • SAIMA ASHRAF Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Councillor
  • SANNAN PERVAIZ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Section, Nato Hq
  • SARAH LOUISE MANN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Arts Manager, Hs2
  • VIVIAN CHAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ceo, Sparrow
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/2012, number: 1146063
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/03/2011, number: 07586759
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR17: 50 days late, AR16: 45 days late,
Main office

CREATE
BARBICAN CENTRE
SILK STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 8DS

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE ARTS AND PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ARTS, ESPECIALLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) OPERA, PLAYS, DRAMAS, DANCE, MUSIC, LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS AND THE STUDY OF THE ARTS AND, FOR THESE PURPOSES, TO ORGANISE, PROMOTE, MANAGE AND CONDUCT FESTIVALS OF MUSIC, DRAMAS AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS IN EAST LONDON OR ELSEWHERE ANNUALLY OR AT SUCH OTHER INTERVALS AS THE CHARITY MAY DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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