Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

PEER PRODUCTIONS 

Peer Productions is a unique youth arts charity specialising in peer education through theatre. Each year we recruit a team of young people (aged 17 to 23) who we train as actors and educators. We create original educational plays on complex social issues which tour schools, colleges and youth settings across the South East. We also deliver outreach projects with targeted community groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 11 years
(17 years as a company)

www.peerproductions.co.uk

admin@peerproductions.co.uk

01483921473

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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
31/08/22£236£297£-61n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/08/21£270£266£4n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/08/20£220£202£17n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/08/19£212£174£38n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/08/18£228£198£30£0£0£0n/a014
31/08/17£141£153£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£144£125£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£168£165£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£230£227£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • India, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 14 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
Community Foundation for Surrey£90,028
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
The Pilgrim Trust£21,000
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
BBC Children in Need£3,000
DCMS£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Peer Place: feasibility work
£15,000 24/02/2023
Investment in a feasibility study to evaluate the development of a building space to increase capacity and earned income for a youth charity
Community Foundation for Surrey - Crisis Grant
£18,258 02/11/2022
Emergency funding to bridge a cash flow crisis owing to delayed receipt of previously secured funding.
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Actor development programme: over 19s
£1,000 10/10/2022
Grant to Peer Productions
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer's New Sound
£10,000 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to purchase new microphones and sound equipment for the group's theatre performances. The project aims to support activities which encourage the improvement of skills and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 22/07/2022
Touring Plays: As I See It, Losing It, Masking
Community Foundation for Surrey - Generation Guys
£20,000 16/12/2021
Funding towards two years' project costs for a charity supporting young people with learning disabilities and SEN needs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Peer Productions
£20,000 07/12/2021
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'Generation Guys' project, providing support for learning disabled young men in SEN schools in Surrey.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Losing It: a play about coming together and falling apart
£10,000 29/11/2021
9
Funding toward a production by an organisation that goes into Surrey schools to provide an innovative approach to teaching school children about sexual education.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Peer Productions
£21,000 03/03/2021
12
Generation Girls, a creative drama project reducing the vulnerability of young women with learning disabilities through helping them identify warning signs of abuse and exploitation
Community Foundation for Surrey - Mind Games
£7,000 19/10/2020
10
Funding toward a production, by an organisation that goes into Surrey schools to provide a less formal approach to mental health education.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 21/08/2020
Touring work: Alone Together, As I See It, Hidden
Community Foundation for Surrey - HIdden
£10,000 27/07/2020
10
Funding toward a production, by an organisation that goes into Surrey schools to provide a less formal approach to mental health education.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Peer Productions
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund online sessions for girls and young women with learning disabilities who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, and help them improve their emotional wellbeing.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 29/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£4,770 21/04/2020
Funding toward online classes to teach young females with learning disabilities about online safety, by an organisation that puts on meaningful productions in schools across Surrey, during the ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Losing It: A play about coming together and falling apart
£5,000 30/01/2020
6
Funding for performances in secondary schools in West Surrey providing a less formal approach to sex education.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Generation Girls
£10,000 03/04/2019
11
Generation Girls - a 10-week empowering programme for girls with learning disabilities.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 14/02/2019
towards the young peer actor-educator training programme, specifically for places for students aged 19 plus
Community Foundation for Surrey - Hidden
£9,800 08/01/2019
5
Delivery of a play to schools about self-harm.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/12/2018
Touring: Losing It, That Guy, Hidden
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Peer Productions
£30,000 30/07/2018
36
This project will provide a peer education and drama project for girls with learning disabilities. The activity will improve confidence, self-esteem and understanding of healthy relationships.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Generation Girls
£7,000 13/06/2018
10
Generation Girls - a 10-week empowering programme for girls with learning disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Losing It - A play about getting together and falling apart
£9,098 03/05/2018
12
The project will deliver a series of workshops to young people to raise awareness of sexual health and relationships to help prevent young people becoming victims and perpetrators of sexual assault ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Peer Productions
£49,700 17/04/2018
Forgotten Women: A history of modern female activism
Community Foundation for Surrey - Peer at the Park
£3,000 06/02/2017
Speech and communications programme for learning disabled teenagers
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£1,500 01/09/2014
Youth theatre production
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£1,500 12/10/2013
Single mother theatre production
Woodward Charitable Trust - Film making project with young ex-offenders
£14,994 30/07/2008
Towards a film making project with young ex-offenders.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-56
  • ALISON MATHERS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director, Executive Search
  • TIM HARGRAVE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Management Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/03/2013, number: 1151156
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2006, number: 05898510
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Ypod Centre
Chobham Road
WOKING
Surrey
GU21 6JD

Objectives

To promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of the arts by, in particular but not exclusively:the training and education of young actors in the creative arts; running drama, film and creative arts outreach projects for young people who otherwise may not have access to such activities; touring educational plays to schools and community centres; making educational films and media resources for schools and community settings; and providing educational workshops to the public.To further or benefit the residents of the United Kingdom and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents.In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power:To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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