Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

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 a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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
31/07/23£487£479£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22£327£271£56n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£117£155£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20£223£277£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£685£545£140£112£225£2184.86129
31/07/18£549£568£-19£120£84£821.760
31/07/17£177£308£-131n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.londonchildrensballet.com

admin@londonchildrensballet.com

02089691555

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
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.

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
36
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
Gender Split

  • 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
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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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