Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 7

UPSTART PROJECTS

Upstart Projects supports young people to find their voice in the arts and gain the skills and experience to grow as arts and media practitioners. We aim to offer arts experiences which enable personal and social change. We work closely with the Arts Award programme, run by Trinity College London, and provide a stepping stone for young people interested in arts leadership or a creative career.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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		£122	£190	£-69	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£280	£209	£71	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£103	£82	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	*	£70	£93	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£121	£100	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£165	£157	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£121	£131	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£134	£130	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£75	£62	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years

www.upstartprojects.uk

hello@upstartprojects.uk

07792665093

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£30,060
Postcode Local Trust	£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£5,410

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Postcode Local Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£15,000	29/09/2023	Funding supported young people to explore the arts in Shropshire and Stoke-on-Trent, building their confidence, creativity and wellbeing.
DCMS - Voice Recovery
£19,695	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£6,910	28/02/2020	Brighton Young Reviewers
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£3,455	28/02/2020	Brighton Young Reviewers. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20
National Lottery Community Fund - Brighton Young Reviewers
£5,410	25/02/2020 3	The project will use funding to support young people to build confidence, communication skills and a sense of being part of the wider community of Brighton by taking part in community cultural events.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

AMY CLEWLOW Appointed: 2023

BETHAN ROWENA TROAKES Appointed: 2020

CHARLIE RAINER Appointed: 2023

FRANCES PERRAUDIN Appointed: 2023

HOLLY HOWE Appointed: 2019

MICHAEL ZDANOWSKI Appointed: 2023

NIKERIA TANNIS Appointed: 2023

PHOEBE MOSHA HILL Appointed: 2014

THOMAS MATTHEW EDWARDS Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/07/2014, number: 1157864

Gift Aid

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
Paying staff
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

9 returns made; AR20: 2 days late,

Main office

59 TRINITY STREET
SHREWSBURY
SY3 7PQ

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO TAKE PART IN AND LEAD ACTIVITIES IN THE ARTS, MEDIA AND CULTURE AND WHICH DEVELOPS THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN AND BENEFIT SOCIETY AS CREATIVE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS

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