Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

ARTLIFT 

Artlift provides Arts on Prescription services for adults in Gloucestershire living with mental and/or physical health challenges. Programmes and projects are co-produced with key stakeholder NHS Gloucestershire ICB, medical and/or VCSE professionals and Experts by Experience. We also provide Workplace Wellbeing, artist residency & consultancy services across Gloucestershire and beyond.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 11 years

www.artlift.org

office@artlift.org

01452 222 726

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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£186£176£9n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£130£139£-9n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£93£127£-35n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£105£122£-17n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£125£117£8n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£88£100£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£138£122£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£141£130£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£61£45£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£89£57£32£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£27,654
Barnwood Trust£17,898
The Baring Foundation£12,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Create Well - rural connections
£9,985 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to provide safe free warm spaces food creative activities friendship and peer support for people isolated due to their rural location and health vulnerabilities in an area of ....more
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£9,072 20/12/2021
Engaging people with mental health challenges
National Lottery Community Fund - Flourish Magazine
£9,466 17/09/2021
The organisation will use the funding to work with various groups to run art based activities to support people living with (and life after) cancer. They will contribute art to a magazine detailing ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Artlift
£12,000 14/09/2020
For core capacity to enable strategic/programme development whilst capacity poor due to demand increase & shift to remote delivery due to CV-19.
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£4,413 04/06/2020
Sustaining health through art
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£4,413 02/06/2020
Arts-based activities in communities
National Lottery Community Fund - Wiltshire Wellbeing
£8,203 10/01/2020
11
The funding will enable the project to extend its 'arts on prescription' programmes. This involves working with local care centres, public health and clinical commissioning groups, and patients with ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Artlift
£20,000 12/12/2018
24
towards two years' running costs of a charity in Gloucestershire that provides therapeutic art intervention projects for people with mental health issues
National Lottery Community Fund - Finding Focus - Photography for Wellbeing
£9,362 07/02/2018
12
The funding will be used to run digital photography sessions for people who are affected by a range of health issues. This will improve wellbeing, increase self-confidence and reduce social ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Artlift
£50,000 09/07/2015
24
over two years towards the development and expansion of 'arts on prescription' services for people with mental health problems in Gloucestershire
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/04/2013, number: 1151580
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR17: 1 days late,
Main office

Studio 22
First Floor
Jolt Studios
27 St Aldate St
Kings Square
Gloucest

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE THE BENEFIT AND USE OF THE CREATIVE ARTS AS A MEANS OF PROMOTING MENTAL WELL BEING AMONGST THOSE SUFFERING FROM LONG TERM MENTAL HEALTH AND/OR PHYSICAL HEALTHCONDITIONS; OTHER PERSONS CONSIDERED TO BE VULNERABLE AND LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM SUCH SUPPORT AND PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CULTURAL EXPERIENCES DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL STATUS, LOCATION OR PLACE OF RESIDENCE.2 TO PROMOTE AND SECURE THE MENTAL WELL BEING OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL AND OR MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE CONSIDERED TO BE VULNERABLE, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, TRAINING, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE IN ORDER TO ENABLE SUCH PERSONS TO TAKE PART IN THE CREATIVE ARTS.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR A SECTION THEREOF, IN THE USE OF THE CREATIVE ARTS TO SUPPORT TRADITIONAL HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS, MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENTS FOR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS.4 TO ASSIST PERSONS SUFFERING FROM A PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION AND POSSESSING A DEMONSTRABLE INTEREST IN THE CREATIVE ARTS TO FORMALLY PURSUE ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE CREATIVE ARTS BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE TO THE CIO.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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