Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +9

THE TWISTING DUCKS THEATRE COMPANY CIO 

Our aim is to enable people with learning disabilites and autism to take part in the arts and to produce theatre and film that helps them to explore the issues that are most important to them, increase their skills and independence, improve their helath and wellbeing, reduce social isolation and and become more visible and active in their communities.
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 a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly 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
Established: 7 years

www.thetwistingducks.co.uk

thetwistingducks@gmail.com

07925167775

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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£286£245£41n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£206£184£21n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£180£134£46n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/20£130£131£-1n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/19£119£121£-2n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/18£38£23£15£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northern Ireland, Northumberland, Scotland, South Tyneside, Sunderland,

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
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£87,959
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£48,308
The Greggs Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,961
DCMS£9,635
The Shears Foundation£5,500
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company CIO
£5,500 11/07/2023
Twisting Ducks
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company
£5,000 15/03/2023
to support people with learning disabilities and autistic people to create theatre and film that represents their lived experience and raises awareness about issues that matter to them.
The Greggs Foundation - North East Core Funding
£30,000 26/05/2022
£30,000 over two years (£20,000 year one and £10,000 year two) towards the salaries of their CEO, Admin Worker, Finance Officer, and Inclusive Employment and Business Development Officer.
National Lottery Community Fund - Platform Theatre Sunderland
£9,961 03/12/2021
The project will use the funding for its drama programme for people with learning difficulties and autism. Workshops will be delivered culminating to performance to the local community. This aims to ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company CIO
£10,000 24/06/2021
Core costs to enable 21 artists with learning disabilities and autism to devise 16 theatre, film and music pop-up events in Newcastle (uplift)
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company CIO
£25,000 24/06/2021
Core costs to enable 21 artists with learning disabilities and autism to devise 16 theatre, film and music pop-up events in Newcastle
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - The work of the organisation with people with learning disabilities and autism in Newcastle arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
£20,000 27/05/2021
The work of the organisation with people with learning disabilities and autism in Newcastle arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company CIO
£20,000 27/05/2021
The work of the organisation with people with learning disabilities and autism in Newcastle arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/04/2021
towards core costs for 2021/22 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,635 25/09/2020
"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
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 3
£25,000 02/04/2020
Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 3
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - 'Feeling Free' a participatory drama project with learning disabled peer educators.
£3,308 02/04/2020
'Feeling Free' a participatory drama project with learning disabled peer educators.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Improving music participation through accessible technology
£2,959 13/05/2019
Improving music participation through accessible technology
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 2
£30,000 01/04/2019
Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 2
County Durham Community Foundation - All Valued
£20,495 13/12/2018
To run accessible drama-based workshops.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 1
£35,000 04/01/2018
Increase core activty across Newcastle Year 1
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 18/07/2017
The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/11/2016, number: 1170354
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
6 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE TWISTING DUCKS THEATRE COMPANY on 02/05/2019
Main office

Heaton Adult Education Centre
Trewhitt Road
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE6 5DY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM THROUGH THEIR PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES AND BY ASSISTING PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO OBTAIN THEIR RIGHTS AND ENTITLEMENTS AS EQUAL CITIZENS.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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