Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

KARST

KARST is established to advance the arts for the public benefit by the promotion and education of contemporary art for the benefit of the public, establishing outreach projects in order to harness engagement with our local communities to promote the arts for the benefit of the public by the establishment and maintenance of an art gallery, artist studios and project space.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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 has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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		£189	£228	£-38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£248	£207	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21	*	£217	£154	£63	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20		£247	£171	£76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19		£204	£235	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18?		£91	£72	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17		£137	£126	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16?		£126	£125	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
01/04/15	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years

http://www.karst.org.uk

info@karst.org.uk

01752222676

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Devon,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 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

DCMS	£184,708
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
The Foyle Foundation	£30,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£142,576	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 ....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.
DCMS - KARST
£42,132	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000	21/02/2020	Unlocking Creative Space (Phase 1)
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000	28/11/2019	towards the installation of heating and accessible facilities

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-74

AZZA GASIM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Creative/Artist

MERRYDITH GWENDOLEN RUSSELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Gallery Assistant & Customer Experience Host

WESLEY LEWIS GILPIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Artist/Video Producer

ALAN RICHARD QUALTROUGH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Journalist

CHRISTY ANN JOHNSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Vice Principal, Plymouth College Of Art

EUR ING NICHOLAS BRIAN BUCKLAND OBE Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chair, University Of Plymouth, Other trusteeship: PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY,

MARK ANTHONY COTTON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/05/2014, number: 1157242
Registered at Companies House on 16/08/2013, number: 08653315

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

9 returns made; AR21: 53 days late, AR15: 27 days late,

Main office

22 GEORGE PLACE
PLYMOUTH
PL1 3NY

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION AND EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF CONTEMPORARY ART, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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