Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 12

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 13

BLAZE ARTS

To advance the education of children and young people aged primarily between 12 and 25 by fostering and promoting, artistic and leadership skills, including but not exclusively by the provision of classes, seminars, workshops, performance opportunities and training courses.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/07/23	£117,459	£91,044	£26,415	8
31/07/22	£77,554	£86,457	£-8,903	0
31/07/21	£74,003	£71,495	£2,508	0
31/07/20	£49,708	£62,252	£-12,544	0
31/07/19	£91,916	£58,918	£32,998	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.blazeonline.org.uk

07928668734

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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 Heritage Fund	£83,244
Brian Mercer Trust	£45,000
Youth Music	£27,613
DCMS	£25,034
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,225
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Blaze Arts
£46,710	06/09/2023	Round Our Way
Youth Music - Music or Lose It
£27,613	24/05/2023	Music or Lose It
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	06/04/2023	Spark Change
National Lottery Community Fund - Access All Areas
£9,225	20/01/2023	This funding will provide a new youth led project in Preston that will amplify the voices of young disabled creatives. It will take place between March and October 2023 and have at least 10 young ....more This funding will provide a new youth led project in Preston that will amplify the voices of young disabled creatives. It will take place between March and October 2023 and have at least 10 young people aged 13 – 21 that will be recruited through networks including schools and disabled people led arts organisations. It will explore different art forms including spoken word and welcoming guest speakers including professional disabled artists take part in research trips to gain inspiration including an exhibition at People’s History Museum which explores the history of disabled people’s activism and ongoing fight for rights and inclusion. The young people will then produce their own event.
Brian Mercer Trust - Grant to Blaze Arts
£45,000	13/07/2022 36	Arts and creatvie opportunites for disadvantaged young people
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Blaze Arts
£5,000	07/07/2022	Towards the salary costs of a youth-led arts charity addressing the exclusion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds from creative education and cultural opportunities in Lancashire’s rural ....more Towards the salary costs of a youth-led arts charity addressing the exclusion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds from creative education and cultural opportunities in Lancashire’s rural areas and industrial towns.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Blaze Arts
£36,534	20/01/2022	Stand Out
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£25,034	22/11/2021	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
National Lottery Community Fund - Generate2
£9,965	21/02/2019 12	The project will give young people the opportunity to attend weekly workshops, supported by a youth facilitator, artist, social worker and other local role models with the aim to improve mental ....more The project will give young people the opportunity to attend weekly workshops, supported by a youth facilitator, artist, social worker and other local role models with the aim to improve mental health and reduce isolation.The funding will be used to support young people gain leadership skills and produce events to connect with the local community.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

CALUM JOHN BAYNE Appointed: 2022

HAMZA JAHANZEB Appointed: 2024

HANNAH SMITH Appointed: 2024

HATTIE KONGAUNRUAN Appointed: 2024

JASLEEN KAUR (Chair) Appointed: 2019

JOE CLEGG Appointed: 2019

RUSSELL TENNANT Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeship: BRIERFIELD ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/07/2018, number: 1179235

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

C/O Burnley Library
Grimshaw Street
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 2BD

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED PRIMARILY BETWEEN 12 AND 25 IN THE ARTS BY FOSTERING AND PROMOTING, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLASSES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING COURSES.2) TO PROMOTE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS BY STAGING PUBLIC EVENTS, INCLUDING PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS OF WORK OF ARTISTIC MERIT.

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