Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 3

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Static board: -3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -2

LONDON CHILDREN'S BALLET

London Childrens Ballet is a charity & performance company that uses dance to change lives. The charity hasa successful 25-year track record of creating popular, original ballet productions for a family audience, givingexceptional training & performance opportunities for free to children from all backgrounds & enablingaudiences who are either financially/physically restricted to enjoy ballet

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board composition appears to be rather static

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

Established: 8 years

www.londonchildrensballet.com

admin@londonchildrensballet.com

02089691555

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/07/23	£487	£479	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	57
31/07/22	£327	£271	£56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	59
31/07/21	£117	£155	£-39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/07/20	£223	£277	£-54	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/07/19	£685	£545	£140	£112	£225	£218	4.8	6	129
31/07/18	£549	£568	£-19	£120	£84	£82	1.7	6	0
31/07/17	£177	£308	£-131	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
57 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
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to London Children's Ballet
£2,000	05/12/2022	Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to London Children's Ballet
£30,000	13/11/2019 36	Ballet for a £
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£60,000	05/03/2019	London Children's Ballet
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	28/11/2017	London Children's Ballet

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

ANN IVESON Appointed: 2019

JIM GIBSON (Chair) Appointed: 2016

JAMES BENEDICT PATRICK MURPHY Appointed: 2019

LUCILLE BRIANCE Appointed: 2015

STEPHANIE SHEPARD COBB Appointed: 2015

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/03/2016, number: 1165961

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds 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

7 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from LONDON CHILDREN'S BALLET on 13/05/2019

Main office

The London Childrens Ballet
3 Holman Road
LONDON
SW11 3RL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING DANCE, MUSIC AND LITERATURE, THROUGH (1) PROVIDING TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ART AND CRAFT OF BALLET, (2) PROVIDING ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES TO EMERGING CREATIVE ARTISTS AND (3) INCREASING, EXPANDING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC ACCESS AND EXPOSURE TO THE ARTS AND TO BALLET IN PARTICULAR.

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