Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 11
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

SKOOL OF STREET 

Skool of Street was established in 2013 in Blackpool. We deliver creative activities to young people and adults and produce socially engaged projects from our Blackpool base, and across the reigeon. Our main focus areas are Dance, music and performing arts, but we also explore and deliver visual arts projects. Our activities are designed to have a positive impact on our community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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
31/07/22£178£211£-33n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/07/21£212£205£7n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/07/20£110£70£39n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/07/19*£81£82£-2n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/07/18*£74£82£-8£0£0£0n/a07
31/07/17£52£39£13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.skoolofstreet.com

skoolofstreet@live.com

07376054161

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Technical, vocational and continuing education
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Blackpool,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
National Lottery Community Fund£238,740
BBC Children in Need£83,548
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£75,461
DCMS£30,540
Sport England£19,745
Co-Operative Group£7,036
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Back to their house
£75,461 13/07/2023
To create a new safe space for the LGBTQ+ community in various areas of Blackpool and hold focus groups to determine the needs. The location 'Ferny House' provides a setting for socialising, music ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skool of Street in The House
£208,800 22/09/2022
The funding will be used to continue and develop youth culture based community arts activities in Blackpool. The project will help people understand how they can use arts as a tool to improve their ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Skool of Street
£30,500 31/01/2022
This project will deliver a weekly arts and culture club to young people living in Blackpool and experiencing disadvantage. As a result, young people will feel positively empowered, have increased ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Queen's Speech
£9,980 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a six-month creative music spoken word and poetry project in celebration of the Queens platinum Jubilee. The project aims to enable adult and young women to use ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Crafty House
£9,960 19/11/2021
This group will use the funding to create a new community led Slow Fashion brand by collecting unwanted garments and adapting them with the help of artists and designers. Participants will be taught ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Skool of Street
£3,364 23/10/2021
We host free confidence-building arts and music production workshops, providing a safe and fun interactive space for youngsters living in poverty in Blackpool.
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,745 26/02/2021
3
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Movement & Dance
Woodward Charitable Trust - Day to day running of our charity including venue hire & minibus costs.
£1,500 19/10/2020
Core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,540 15/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Skool of Street
£53,048 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver outreach activities for children and young people in Blackpool, Lancashire, who are affected by Covid-19, supporting them to be positively empowered, develop ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sandgrown people
£10,000 31/01/2020
8
The project will target young people in Blackpool aiming to provide creative skills and opportunities by offering skill based workshops and creative sessions to express their life experiences in ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Skool of Street
£3,672 15/11/2019
We want to buy a minibus to take disadvantaged children to and from performing arts classes and resilience-building workshops.
Sport England - TryDance
£10,000 17/09/2019
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled TryDance . This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 02/07/2019
towards core costs and new building running costs during the year end July 2020
National Lottery Community Fund - Spin The Wheel
£9,950 04/10/2018
12
The charity will work with groups of young people and their families, teaching them to express themselves around themes that matter to them. They will work together to choose which topics they will ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Skool of Street
£30,000 13/11/2017
36
This project will deliver urban arts workshops in deprived wards across Blackpool for children and young people living in poverty and with low self esteem. They will use creative dance and theatre ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skool of Street Community Film, Dance & Arts Engagement Scheme
£9,970 12/07/2017
12
The funding will be used to run creative arts workshop for young people including drama, hip hop dance, film making, music and spoken word. The project aims to improve the wellbeing, confidence and ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme.
£300 20/06/2017
Towards a summer play scheme.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/05/2016, number: 1167310
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR19: 29 days late, AR18: 66 days late,
Main office

Unit
3A Stanley Road
BLACKPOOL
Lancashire
FY1 4QL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DANCE. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE,ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Data Sources

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