Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

HOSPITAL ROOMS 

Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that believes in the enduring power of art to instil value, dignity and wellbeing in people. We commission museum quality artists to create thoughtful, therapeutic and creative environments in mental health units and run arts workshops for service users. We focus on co-production and work in genuine partnership with each unit's community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Income generation is well diversified
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 8 years

www.hospital-rooms.com

info@hospital-rooms.com

07708925887

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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
31/03/23£951£878£72£129£518£4946.71620
31/03/22£769£804£-36£61£446£4236.31320
31/03/21£667£375£292£79£482£1304.2635
31/03/20£488£439£50n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/19£292£204£88n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£214£168£47£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/17£89£83£7£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 19.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 14.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 6.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 7.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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£112,200
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
City Bridge Trust£32,382
The Rayne Foundation£15,000
The Baring Foundation£12,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 17/06/2022
Hospital Rooms Core Funding
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Hospital Rooms
£15,000 19/11/2021
Towards support to realise an ambitious project that will result in fifteen extraordinary artworks being installed across three mental health wards at Torbay Hospital.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Hospital Rooms
£12,000 14/09/2020
Six acclaimed artists will work with patients at the Mother and Baby Unit at Bethlem Hospital to transform communal spaces with museum quality art.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hospital Rooms
£32,382 02/06/2020
A grant of £32,382.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.’
CAF - Grant to Hospital Rooms
£3,200 27/04/2020
3
Grant to Hospital Rooms to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - Hospital Rooms Recovery Programme
£75,330 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Hospital Rooms Digital Art School
£36,870 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Hospital Rooms
£10,000 07/01/2019
12
Towards commissioning 6 world class artists to co-produce highly inventive, compelling and NHS compliant artistic environments for a locked acute mental health unit in St Pancras.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 29/11/2018
Hospital Rooms - Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 10/05/2017
Hospital Rooms - Garnet Ward
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/07/2016, number: 1168101
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting 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

Unit 102
Lock Studios
7 Corsican Square
LONDON
E3 3YD

Objectives

HOSPITAL ROOMS PROMOTES THE IMPROVED HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF MENTAL HEALTHSERVICE USERS BY ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITALS THROUGH THEPROVISION OF HIGH QUALITY AND COMPLIANT DESIGN, ART AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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