Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

THE CHILDRENS ART SCHOOL

Promoting and providing high quality arts education for children and young people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • 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

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£166£140£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£90£123£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£136£102£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£39£32£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£77£73£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£21£26£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£27£22£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£13£13£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

thechildrensartschool.co.uk

thechildrensartschool@gmail.com

07806334728

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnsley, Bradford City, City Of Wakefield, Kirklees,
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£49,999
National Lottery Community Fund£27,675
Sir George Martin Trust£3,100
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to The Children's Art School - Makerworld
£3,100 15/03/2023
Capital and core costs for Music/Arts/Culture
National Lottery Community Fund - Marvellous Maker World Summer
£8,275 13/05/2022
The funding will be used to provide creative activities for families through parades fashion shows and exhibitions. The project aims to provide positive activities for families which will help increase social and creative skills.
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£49,999 09/03/2022
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
National Lottery Community Fund - Make/Create to Recovery
£9,800 23/04/2021
The funding will be used to deliver play drop-in sessions for 2-4yr olds and summer holiday projects and workshops to engage with children of all ages and their families. The project will use story-telling imagination creativity and play to build ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Maker World
£9,600 06/03/2020
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The funding will be used to deliver art, craft and creative play workshops for children of all ages, outside of school hours, with the aim of bringing people together and promoting tolerance between people from diverse communities.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

  • JAEL WILLIAMS Appointed: 2014
  • MAIRE TRACEY Appointed: 2023
  • SALLY BROWN Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/04/2015, number: 1161225
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

22 Back Lane
Holmfirth
HD9 1HG

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY IN WEST YORKSHIRE, BY: PROVIDING VISUAL AND OTHER ARTS CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ADVISING AND TRAINING TEACHERS AND ARTS FACILITATORS; AND RAISING AWARENESS OF THE VALUE OF TEACHING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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