Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 8
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

EFFERVESCENT SOCIAL ALCHEMY 

Researching and developing cultural activities, including visual and performing arts, for health and wellbeing, and education impact.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 8 years
(12 years as a company)

www.eff.org.uk

ellie@eff.org.uk

07763673530

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UN SDGs
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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
31/03/22£331£292£39n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£385£307£78n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£139£465£-326n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£234£261£-27n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£243£223£20£0£0£0n/a060
31/03/17£203£206£-4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cornwall, Devon,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
National Lottery Community Fund£295,793
Esmee Fairbairn£224,118
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£90,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Effervescent Social Alchemy
£5,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Community Fund - Effervescent Social Alchemy
£295,793 24/06/2021
The project will use the funding to work with 60 – 80 young people aged 12 -19 from Plymouth and the wider South West across six creative social action projects ultimately aiming to positively ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Creative spaces for children and young people
£90,000 13/07/2020
Effervescent Social Alchemy delivers projects supporting young people to create campaigns which focus on issues affecting them, such as sexual exploitation, mental health and loneliness. This grant ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Effervescent Social Alchemy
£190,000 17/06/2020
36
Towards unrestricted funds to further refine a methodology for co-produced creative activity with vulnerable children and young people, strengthen monitoring and evaluation and build towards ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Effervescent Social Alchemy
£29,118 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Hold 3
£9,885 04/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to work with young people who have experienced childhood trauma and deliver a public awareness campaign. The project aims to improve wellbeing and encourage positive ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - HOLD
£9,784 06/12/2017
12
The funding will be used to offer young people the opportunity to access mental health support sessions, supporting them to raise self-esteem and get back into mainstream provision.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Effervescent Social Alchemy
£116,471 21/11/2017
24
Towards the ‘Good Enough Art Gallery’, a socially engaged curating project that will work with six groups of extremely vulnerable children.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 37-56
  • MICHELE WONG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Sustainability Consultant, Spiritual Coach
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/12/2015, number: 1164859
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/04/2012, number: 08049101
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

1 POLRUAN TERRACE
PLYMOUTH
PL1 5EB

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:-A. IN THE CREATIVE ARTS; ANDB. BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. (2) TO:- A. ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; ANDB. PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY,IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE USE OF THE CREATIVE ARTS.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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