Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

THE ARTS EMERGENCY SERVICE 

The Charity's objects are to promote the Arts and Higher Education and to encourage, maintain and develop public education and appreciation of the Arts and Higher Education, to remove barriers to young people who wish to study an Arts degree and to promote, improve, develop and maintain the appreciation of the Arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

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
30/06/23£790£732£58£0£453£3996.5181,934
30/06/22£571£621£-51£0£395£3707.1166,400
30/06/21*£524£417£107£0£446£42612.3125,000
30/06/20£444£359£86n/an/an/an/an/a4,000
30/06/19£336£232£104n/an/an/an/an/a500
30/06/18£200£143£57£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£161£119£43£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£89£88£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£60£53£7£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£71£32£39£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 8.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 11 years
(12 years as a company)

www.arts-emergency.org

info@arts-emergency.org

02076831077

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Academic support
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, Manchester City, Oldham, Throughout London, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 1,934 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
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
John Lyon's Charity£80,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to The Arts Emergency Service
£5,000 27/01/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Arts Emergency
£120,000 09/11/2022
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towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing mentoring and training opportunities in the art sector for young people in London, Brighton, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to The Arts Emergency Service
£75,000 18/11/2021
London Mentoring Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 05/06/2020
Arts Emergency: The Future is Another Place

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 23-54
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/06/2013, number: 1152377
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/06/2011, number: 07655709
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR21: 16 days late,
Main office

UNIT W3
8 WOODBERRY DOWN
LONDON
N4 2TG

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND TO ENCOURAGE, MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION, TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WISH TO STUDY THROUGH A NETWORK OF SUPPORT, INTRODUCTION TO MENTORING SCHEMES AND TO ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS WHO WISH TO STUDY AN ARTS DEGREE IN ALL ASPECTS BY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RAISING FUNDS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE PREPARING FOR ENTERING UPON OR ENGAGED IN AN ARTS DEGREE AND TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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