Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

LITTLE FISH THEATRE 

Little Fish supports difficult to reach young people through the transformative power of theatre and community arts. Its work is designed to enable young people to question their aspirations and beliefs, empowering them to develop both their social and personal life skills. Participants are inspired to become cultural consumers or creators, actively shaping a new social & political landscape.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 6 years
(15 years as a company)

www.littlefishtheatre.co.uk

INFO@LITTLEFISHTHEATRE.CO.UK

02082691123

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£217,500£183,529£33,9712
31/03/22£232,880£242,253£-9,3732
31/03/21£387,738£224,389£163,3492
31/03/20£353,631£245,041£108,5904
31/03/19£359,724£271,820£87,9042
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 volunteers

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
BBC Children in Need£32,700
Esmee Fairbairn£21,091
National Lottery Community Fund£17,720
DCMS£12,475
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilience Sessions
£9,520 15/08/2022
This project will develop previous work to focus on emotion regulation and management of difficult feelings of young people in South London. It will deliver a course of flexible live and digital ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Embrace Project COVID Response
£8,200 18/12/2020
9
The funding will be used to deliver creative group workshops and peer mentoring for young males who are at risk of unhealthy behaviours due to poor mental health. The project aims to support their ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,475 27/09/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Little Fish Theatre Community Interest Company
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund the production costs for a film resource for 600 children transitioning from primary to secondary school who are at risk of school exclusion who are isolated at home ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Little Fish Theatre Community Interest Company
£29,700 28/05/2020
36
This project will provide after school activities for children transitioning from primary to secondary school who are at risk of school exclusion. The activities will help to increase confidence, ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 26/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Little Fish Theatre
£21,091 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Bexley After School Clubs - BASC
£207,923 31/05/2018
36
This project will provide drama based intervention projects for disadvantaged young people with the aim to challenge social injustice and inspire personal and community growth and change. Activities ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Learning for Life (L4L)
£203,960 28/06/2017
36
This group will use the funding to develop their project which aims to support 900 vulnerable children and young people in Southwark. The project will engage with children via interactive drama and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Little Fish Theatre
£120,551 04/04/2017
36
Towards the salary of a coordinator for Embrace, a theatre-based project working with young men at risk of becoming perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.
National Lottery Community Fund - DSV Youth
£305,435 21/10/2015
36
This is the expansion of a pilot project working in partnership with The Her Centre. The aim of the project is to inform and educate young people from either perpetrating or accepting domestic and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Bexley After School Clubs
£82,294 03/11/2014
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Transitions After School Clubs
£122,879 21/01/2014
36
This project aims to help ease the transition to secondary school for young people who are socially isolated and lacking in self confidence. Through activities such as after school clubs, dance, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Transitions After School Clubs
£91,445 12/05/2010
36
This after school project, based in London, works with vulnerable young people at risk of exclusion in order to ease transition from primary school to secondary school. It will do this by providing ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-66
  • BEN MILES Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Theatre Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/2018, number: 1179172
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/05/2008, number: 06600652
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
5 returns made; AR23: 37 days late,
Main office

The Forum at Greenwich
Trafalgar Road
LONDON
SE10 9EQ

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR, THE ARTS OF THEATRE, DRAMA, POETRY, SINGING, DANCE, MOVEMENT AND MUSIC.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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