Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 1

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -9

PRISON CHOIR PROJECT

The Prison Choir Project is a charity whose objectives are to rehabilitate prisoners, ex-offenders and people suffering mental illness through the study and performance of opera, song, and choral music. We hope to offer a pathway to reduced reoffending by building self-esteem, encouraging personal development and improving employable soft skills for all those involved.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board is completely male
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
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
31/03/23	*	£25	£44	£-19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£14	£25	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£50	£29	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£92	£63	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£64	£67	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£58	£46	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

www.prisonchoirproject.co.uk

adam@prisonchoirproject.co.uk

07958786153

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sport England - COVID19 - Active Together (Crowdfunding)
£0	23/11/2021	Funding under Sport England's Crowdfunder Initiative, 'Active Together'. This was an online crowdfunding campaign which Sport England contributed towards, with a pledge value of £10,000. They ....more Funding under Sport England's Crowdfunder Initiative, 'Active Together'. This was an online crowdfunding campaign which Sport England contributed towards, with a pledge value of £10,000. They achieved themselves an additional crowdfund raise value of £10,571 from 248 supporters ('the crowd'). The campaign's description was: 'Help Tumble Gymnastics and Activity Centre fundraise to help make the centre more accessible and sustainable.' Their campaign page can be viewed here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/teamtumble
Devon Community Foundation - Christmas Project at HMP Dartmoor
£3,000	31/10/2019 0	working with the inmates at HMP Dartmoor to put on an annual concert in December for inmates and members of the public, helping to build self-esteem, communication skills and confidence

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-75

DANIEL IAN SCOTT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Self-Employed , Other trusteeship: THE JOHN SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST,

DR MICHAEL LITTLE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

ROBIN COOKE-HURLE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/08/2017, number: 1174202
Registered at Companies House on 21/03/2016, number: 10073711

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR23: 22 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from MIDLAND FESTIVAL CHORUS on 14/06/2022

Main office

International House
185 Tower Bridge Road
London
SE1 2UF

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE OF OPERA, SONG AND CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, IN ORDER TO FOSTER GREATER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF SUCH, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) AMONG PRISONERS, EX-OFFENDERS AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT; 2.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN MUSIC AND RELATED SUBJECTS, PARTICULARLY (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) AMONG PRISONERS AND EX-OFFENDERS AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT;2.3 THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONG PRISONERS AND EX-OFFENDERS, AND AMONG PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT BY:2.3.1 PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLECTIVE ACTIVITY IN CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS, INCLUDING THROUGH MUSICAL PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE; AND2.3.2 PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN MUSIC IN ORDER TO DEVELOP PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES, SUCH AS CONFIDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM AND INTERPERSONAL AND COMMUNICATION CAPACITIES, IN ORDER TO ASSIST THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; AND 2.3.3 ANY OTHER SUCH MEANS THAT ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES THAT THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT.

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