Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

PURPLE PATCH ARTS 

Purple Patch Arts exists to improve the lives and life chances of people with learning disabilities by providing innovative, inclusive, creative learning experiences for them and the professionals that support them.
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 income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • 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

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
31/08/23£483£480£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/22£400£392£8n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/21£305£224£81n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/20£270£266£4n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/08/19£345£298£48n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/08/18£308£300£9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years
(14 years as a company)

www.purplepatcharts.org

info@purplepatcharts.org

07715903691

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City, Calderdale, City Of Wakefield, City Of York, East Riding Of Yorkshire, Kirklees, Leeds City, North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

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£314,437
Lloyds Bank Foundation£67,246
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Sir George Martin Trust£5,600
The Shears Foundation£5,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£30,000 28/04/2023
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifelong Learning Programmes
£10,000 27/01/2023
The funding will be used to continue offering Lifelong Learning Programmes to adults with learning disabilities and autism. This project aims to enrich the lives of people with a variety of ....more
The Shears Foundation - Purple Patch Arts
£5,500 12/01/2023
Lifelong Learning Programmes
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Purple Patch Arts - 17/11/22
£2,000 20/12/2022
Core Funding
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Purple Patch Arts
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 04/04/2022
Lifelong Learning Programmes
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Purple Patch Arts
£2,800 28/02/2022
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Purple Patch Arts
£2,800 28/02/2022
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
National Lottery Community Fund - Move On Up
£284,444 22/06/2021
The funding will help young people with complex needs and advanced learning difficulties for whom employment or education is unlikely to transition from statutory provisions for children and young ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Purple Patch Arts
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Purple Patch Arts, awarded under the Foundation's Learning Disabilities funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - To Wander is to Adventure
£10,000 13/11/2020
6
The funding will be used to work with adults with learning disabilities to co-produce a toolkit of creative mindful walking activities to be shared with their peers. The project will initially be ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - A Purple Summer
£9,993 22/05/2020
6
This project will deliver workshops over Zoom to adults with learning difficulties to keep them physically active and healthy. The aim is to improve wellbeing spread happiness and positive feelings.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 13/03/2020
Lifelong Learning Programmes
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Purple Patch Arts
£14,996 04/12/2019
12
Towards cost of new Project Manager role and consultancy support
National Lottery Community Fund - A Purple Celebration
£9,750 30/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to organise artistic activities and promote the services of the group by holding a celebration event. The project aims to facilitate integration across the different ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - The Togetherness Project
£10,000 14/05/2018
11
A weekly session for older people with and without learning disabilities in South Leeds, using the ‘The Purple Patch Approach’ to learning, which employs creative methods such as drama, dance, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Minds
£54,844 29/06/2011
12
The project will provide people living with Dementia with creative activities to improve the quality of their lives. They will provide weekly 'Music, Movement and Making' activities for each person ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-57
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/04/2018, number: 1178031
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/10/2009, number: 07047385
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
  • 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
Main office

Purple Patch Arts
Hillside
Beeston Road
LEEDS
LS11 8ND

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY, ILL-HEALTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, YOUTH, AGE OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING INNOVATIVE, INCLUSIVE, CREATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR THEM AND THE PROFESSIONALS THAT SUPPORT THEM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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