Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 3

BAREFOOT OPERA

To advance education in and promote public appreciation of the art of opera for the public benefit

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/03/23	£59	£56	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/22	£155	£182	£-27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/21	£72	£51	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20	£93	£108	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19	£82	£70	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18	£59	£39	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£34	£34	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 8 years

www.barefootopera.com

jennymiller.barefootopera@gmail.com

07766754656

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
15 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	£25,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000
Sussex Community Foundation	£3,200

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£25,000	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 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	17/09/2021	A Town That Sings!'
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	11/02/2021	towards Bloom Britannia, a new contemporary opera involving community performers and professional arts freelancers and attracting new audiences to opera
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Barefoot Opera
£3,200	23/03/2020 12	Funding was provided for project costs associated with a new community opera in October 2020.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Barefoot Opera
£5,000	15/03/2019 2	Funding was provided towards project and staff costs for a peoples Opera.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	14/02/2019	towards the R&D phase and one off performance of A Town, a new 'people's opera' at De La Warr Pavilion in April 2019
Sussex Community Foundation - Barefoot Opera
£988	05/07/2017 3	Barefoot Opera offers singing training at all levels from scratch to professional. Funding was provided towards supporting two professional workshop leaders to deliver 3 two hour drop-in sessions as ....more Barefoot Opera offers singing training at all levels from scratch to professional. Funding was provided towards supporting two professional workshop leaders to deliver 3 two hour drop-in sessions as part of their outreach work aimed at reaching those who would not normally have access to the arts.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

GLENYS JACQUES Appointed: 2022

LAURELLE HUGHES Appointed: 2022

DR ELIZABETH ALLEN Appointed: 2022

JOAO FIGUEIREDO Appointed: 2021

MARY LONG Appointed: 2024

OLIVIA SHAW (Chair) Appointed: 2021

VIRGINIA GILBERT Appointed: 2017

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/06/2016, number: 1167730

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Filing Record

7 returns made; all on time

Main office

70 Filsham Road
St. Leonards-on-Sea
TN38 0PA

Objectives

To advance education about, promote public appreciation of, and encourage participation in, the art of opera and singing for the public benefit by:a) Developing singing at all levels from amateur to professional standard;b) Encouraging emerging professional singers to find new approaches to the rehearsal and performance of opera;c) developing new audiences for opera, music recitals and concerts with innovative, inclusive and accessible performancesd)Promote singing for mental and physical health for all.

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