Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

WEST HORSLEY PLACE TRUST 

To preserve and maintain the house known as West Horsley Place in Surrey, together with its ancillary buildings and grounds as a place of historic and architectural interest, setting its history in a wider local and national context through a variety of teaching and learning methods. To encourage and promote the performing and visual arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
28/02/23£826£908£-82£186£15,180£6899.113400
28/02/22£869£981£-112£123£15,324£7429.19300
28/02/21£562£722£-160£162£14,432£4086.8730
29/02/20£880£931£-51£128£14,366£2763.66150
28/02/19£398£519£-121n/an/an/an/an/a55
28/02/18£503£771£-268£112£13,262£100.220
28/02/17£186£344£-158£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: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 5%
Reserves/Spending: 9.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 8 years

www.westhorsleyplace.org

info@westhorsleyplace.org

01483282032

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 400 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£133,684
National Lottery Heritage Fund£126,000
Wolfson Foundation£50,700
Community Foundation for Surrey£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to West Horsley Place Trust
£50,700 08/06/2023
Restoration of the Geraldine and Red Drawing Rooms
Community Foundation for Surrey - Breathing Space Outdoor Wellbeing Courses
£2,000 17/06/2022
Funding for an 8 week outdoor mental health and wellbeing course
Community Foundation for Surrey - Our Past, Our Future summer youth programme
£2,000 17/06/2022
Funding for a specialist youth work facilitator to run a summer programme
Community Foundation for Surrey - Free Public Exhibition
£2,000 24/03/2022
Funding towards a public exhibition in Horsley to showcase work that local residents have produced during the pandemic.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£40,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
DCMS - West Horsley Place
£10,263 04/01/2021
Investigative works into understanding and repair of the Geraldine Room ceiling
DCMS - West Horsley Place
£3,421 04/01/2021
Investigative works into understanding and repair of the Geraldine Room ceiling
DCMS - Create without barriers
£80,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Mary Roxburghe Trust
£126,000 04/03/2020
West Horsley Place: An historic estate without barriers
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 32-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2015, number: 1164840
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/09/2015, number: 09795744
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
  • 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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

West Horsley Place
Epsom Road
West Horsley
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT24 6AN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN THE HOUSE KNOWN AS WEST HORSLEY PLACE IN SURREY, TOGETHER WITH ITS ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS (WEST HORSLEY PLACE) AS A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST, SETTING ITS HISTORY IN A WIDER LOCAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXT BY A VARIETY OF LEARNING METHODS.2. TO PROMOTE THE PERFORMING ARTS AND VISUAL ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY FACILITATING THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA AND BALLET AND TO PROMOTE LEARNING BY THE TEACHING, PRODUCTION, PARTICIPATION IN AND DISPLAY OF ARTS AND INDOOR OR OUTDOOR CRAFTS OR SKILLS AT WEST HORSLEY PLACE.THIS ARTICLE MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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