Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

CENTREPIECES CIO 

Promoting the recovery of adults in the London Borough of Bexley who experience or have experienced mental health problems by providing resources and support to enable them to participate in the arts. Activities include art workshops, exhibitions, educational visits, public art and other art activities. Centrepieces aims to promote understanding of mental health issues to the wider community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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

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£37£31£6n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£25£38£-13n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/21£56£45£11n/an/an/an/an/a41
31/03/20£33£39£-6n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£29£24£5n/an/an/an/an/a32
31/03/18£24£22£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£23£15£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£12£11£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.centrepieces.org

info@centrepieces.org

01322554589

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bexley,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,790 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Centrepieces Mental Health Arts Project
£12,000 14/09/2020
Transform our art spaces to enable safe post lockdown art workshop programmes._x000D_ Projects with local schools, exhibitions and public art._x000D_ Buy a kiln.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2015, number: 1160300
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
8 returns made; AR17: 28 days late,
Main office

The Lodge
Hall Place
Bourne Road
Bexley
DA5 1PQ

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE THE RECOVERY OF ADULTS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS, WHO EXPERIENCE, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY PROVIDING RESOURCES AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ARTS AND RELATED MENTAL HEALTH ENHANCING ACTIVITIES AND TO DEVELOP ARTISTICALLY.2. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(I) PROVIDING A RANGE OF ART BASED ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY(II) PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACTIVELY VOLUNTEER IN THE COMMUNITY(III) EDUCATING, IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE AND PROMOTING A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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