Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

VENTURE ARTS 

PROVIDING: (A)PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS, TRAINING COURSES ANDMENTORING IN VARIOUS ART FORMS; (B)EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND WORK EXPERIENCEPROGRAMMES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND SCHOOLS; AND (C)FACILITIESAND RESOURCES TO ENABLE THE CREATION OF ART.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age
Established: 6 years

https://venturearts.org/

info@venturearts.org

01612321223

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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£778£796£-17£5£444£3815.72649
31/03/22£659£603£56£4£462£4328.62129
31/03/21£721£463£258£3£406£3799.81875
31/03/20£437£466£-29n/an/an/an/an/a75
31/03/19£476£464£12n/an/an/an/an/a78
31/03/18*£430£510£-79£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 5.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 12.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 26 employees
  • 49 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,

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£447,390
Esmee Fairbairn£232,500
Henry Smith Charity£83,300
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Joseph Levy Foundation£15,000
Manchester City Council£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Arts
£10,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Joseph Levy Foundation - Project funding
£10,000 13/01/2023
To contribut to the costs of running an art club for neuro-diverse and learning disabled young artists
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Arts
£100,000 20/07/2022
Towards unrestricted core costs to advance the organisation's work promoting the agency of people with learning disabilities in the cultural sector as artists, advocates and workers
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 01/07/2022
Making Art, Building Communities
Joseph Levy Foundation - Art facilitator to work with young people with learning disabilities
£5,000 11/01/2022
12
To fund one art facilitator to deliver two 6 hour sessions a week for 17 weeks for young people with learning disabilities aged between 8 and 25
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Venture Arts
£2,619 23/10/2021
We'd like to buy a laser cutting machine and an etching printing press to benefit our artists with learning disabilities and their creative/professional development, and for community collaborations.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Venture Arts
£83,300 06/05/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Cultural Enrichment Programme', providing work experience placements in cultural venues for adults with learning disabilities throughout Greater ....more
Manchester City Council - Covid Impact Fund 2021 grant to Venture Arts
£10,000 01/04/2021
to continue delivering art sessions for learning disabled people, both online and in studio when COVID restrictions ease. Priority groups: Disabled people
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Arts
£100,000 26/08/2020
24
Towards Core costs Towards unrestricted funding to advance the organisation?s work promoting the agency of people with learning disabilities in the cultural sector as artists, advocates and workers.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Venture Arts
£3,900 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund an additional staff member to support 20 disabled children and young people who are currently isolated due to Covid-19. It will reduce their isolation.
CAF - Grant to Venture Arts
£5,000 22/05/2020
3
Grant to Venture Arts to support the organisation through COVID19
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Arts
£22,500 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Venture Arts: Skills Development Strand
£447,390 09/01/2020
60
The project aims to support people with learning difficulties through art, delivering classes on photography & film, painting and other arts-based subjects. Funding will go towards expanding the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Venture Arts
£103,580 28/02/2019
36
This project will deliver a twice-weekly arts club in Hulme, and then Bury, for young people with learning difficulties facing social isolation. This will develop their skills, increase their ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 25/01/2019
Core programme (studio and schools projects)
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Venture Arts
£79,900 13/06/2018
36
towards three years' the salary of a Cultural Engagement Worker and the running costs of a project in Greater Manchester that provides work experience placements in cultural venues for adults with ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Arts
£150,000 26/07/2017
36
Towards core salary costs to increase arts and cultural opportunities for people with learning disabilities.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-70
  • ATUL BANSAL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2017, number: 1176385
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2017, number: 10823617
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
  • Paying staff
  • 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; AR18: 20 days late,
Main office

VENTURE ARTS
43-45 OLD BIRLEY STREET
MANCHESTER
M15 5RF

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1)PROVIDE RELIEF TO LEARNING DISABLED PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING:(A)HELP AND SUPPORT THROUGH THE ARTS FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS; AND(B)SUPPORT AND FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND EDUCATION OF LEARNING DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE THROUGH THE ARTS.(2)ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING: (A)PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS, TRAINING COURSES AND MENTORING IN VARIOUS ART FORMS;(B)EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND SCHOOLS; AND(C)FACILITIES AND RESOURCES TO ENABLE THE CREATION OF ART. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS, ART INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO DRAWING, PAINTING, TEXTILES, PHOTOGRAPHY, ANIMATION AND FILM, SCULPTURE, PRINTMAKING, CERAMICS AND COMPUTER GENERATED WORK.

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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