Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 7

DANCEWEST LONDON LIMITED

Dance classes, community dance programmes, dance services for schools and public sector.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely female
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
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£270,777	£263,012	£7,765	5
31/03/22?		£280,992	£237,461	£43,531	5
31/10/20		£111,253	£107,831	£3,422	3
31/10/19		£111,253	£107,831	£3,422	3

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.dancewest.co.uk

info@dancewest.co.uk

07494513079

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

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
5 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

John Lyon's Charity	£43,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£37,500
DCMS	£30,756
The Foyle Foundation	£21,000
London Borough of Hounslow	£10,696
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
City Bridge Trust	£8,508

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£21,000	10/07/2023	to support the Next Generation work placement programme for trainee community dance teachers and producers
National Lottery Community Fund - DanceWest Community Officer
£37,500	18/11/2022	The funding will be used to continue the delivery of low-cost and free danced programmes in Hammersmith and Fulham. The project aims to improve community cohesion and improve the member's health and ....more The funding will be used to continue the delivery of low-cost and free danced programmes in Hammersmith and Fulham. The project aims to improve community cohesion and improve the member's health and wellbeing.
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to DanceWest
£43,500	18/11/2021	DanceWest: 'Dance for all'
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to DanceWest
£10,696	02/03/2021 12	A programme of digital & live classes for disabled adults and adults 65+ in sheltered housing and day centres.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,256	25/08/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	24/07/2020	DanceWest Digital
City Bridge Trust - Grant to DanceWest
£8,508	11/06/2020	£8,508 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
DCMS - DanceWest recovery
£25,500	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to DanceWest
£4,700	07/05/2019 12	Move-it Mondays
National Lottery Community Fund - Move It Mondays
£10,000	21/09/2018 12	The project aims to reduce isolation and improve levels of wellbeing by providing dance activities for young people who have disabilities.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-75

ANYA LEONIE TODD (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: International Development

MARIA POLYDOROU Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee

SUSAN LYNN WHIDDINGTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: ACTION FOR CHILDREN'S ARTS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2018, number: 1179424
Registered at Companies House on 02/10/2017, number: 10991191

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
Investment
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

Filing Record

4 returns made; AR23: 90 days late,

Main office

Sands End Arts & Community Centre
Peterborough Road
LONDON
SW6 3EZ

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC (OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE ART OF DANCE THROUGH CLASSES, WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCES ACROSS WEST LONDON, AND IN SO DOING NURTURE TALENT, DIVERSITY AND EXCELLENCE IN DANCE THROUGH PARTICIPATION AND LEARNING.TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS RELATED ACTIVITY.

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