Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 4

Spending falling: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 2

BLIND SUMMIT EDUCATION

Blind Summit provides high quality puppetry for audiences of adults and young people through performance, collaborations and education and training opportunities throughout the UK and the world.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there only 4 trustees?
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile recently
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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		£84	£79	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£98	£73	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£126	£110	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£309	£231	£78	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£141	£137	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£127	£137	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£173	£187	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16	*	£241	£255	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£338	£284	£55	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£352	£274	£77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

www.blindsummit.com

info@blindsummit.com

07732167140

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Blind people

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States,

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Blind Summit - Theatre Company
£4,000	24/11/2023	Travel support to Tokyo by five members of Blind Summit taking part in the first Shimokitazawa International Puppet Festival on the invitation of DEKU, providing performances of their production 'The Table' and a workshop on puppet manipulation, 20 ....more Travel support to Tokyo by five members of Blind Summit taking part in the first Shimokitazawa International Puppet Festival on the invitation of DEKU, providing performances of their production 'The Table' and a workshop on puppet manipulation, 20 to 26 February 2024.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£76,823	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 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 where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 54-73

BENEDICT ALLEN HOWARD FIGGIS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Teacher

FIONA JANE LEMPRIERE ARNOLD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Doctor

NICHOLAS DAVID GOODENOUGH-BAYLY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Journalist

SARAH SIMMONS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Voice Work Performer/ Coach

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/01/2013, number: 1150425
Registered at Companies House on 28/10/2011, number: 07827214

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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

10 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,

Main office

62 Fentiman Road
LONDON
SW8 1LF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ARTS OF DRAMA AND PUPPETRY

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