Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

WRITING WEST MIDLANDS LTD 

To advance education in the arts for the public benefit by promotion of creative writing in particular but not exclusively in the West Midlands region of the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 12 years
(16 years as a company)

www.writingwestmidlands.org

jonathan@writingwestmidlands.org

01212462770

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UN SDGs
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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£349£342£6n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£468£458£11n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/03/21£280£239£40n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20£348£317£31n/an/an/an/an/a125
31/03/19£362£347£16n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£341£269£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£263£230£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£284£302£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£315£342£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£314£275£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£295£243£52£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Who works here?
  • 30 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£184,375 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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Writing East Midlands
£10,000 07/12/2017
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing creative writing workshops for refugees and asylum seekers in Leicester.
Birmingham City Council - Culture Offer Birmingham Libraries
£20,000 30/03/2017
CULTURE OFFER BIRMINGHAM LIBRARIES; Arts and culture;
Birmingham City Council - Birmingham Literature Festival
£9,000 01/01/2016
BIRMINGHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL; Arts and culture;

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-71
  • JOHN ROBERTS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired Procurement Manager
  • NIKKI BI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Events Programmer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/06/2012, number: 1147710
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/05/2007, number: 06264124
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

130 Zellig Building
Gibb Street
Birmingham
B9 4AT

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTION OF CREATIVE WRITING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WEST MIDLANDS REGION OF THE UK.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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