Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

RABBLE THEATRE

to be confirmed later
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/01/24£633£666£-33£16£42£100.2698
31/01/23£396£370£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/22£345£357£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/21£173£117£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/20£12£7£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 66%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 23%
Reserves/Spending: 0.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 6 years

www.rabbletheatre.com

info@rabbletheatre.com

07930834970

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£107,055
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
The Grocers' Charity£8,215
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Fenton Arts Trust - Beneficiaries 2023 – 2024
£4,000 31/03/2024
RABBLE Lift, providing seven inspiring paid internships for early-career actors and theatre makers on a professional production in 2023.
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Match Santa Run - Rabble Theatre
£2,600 07/03/2024
Opportunities, education and skills development of creative talent for artists with financing challenges or disability support requirements
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 10/07/2023
towards core costs of delivering community work over the next 12 months
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Rabble Theatre
£10,000 05/07/2023
Connecting local communities with their own dramatic history; Henry I in Reading
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Match - Rabble Theatre
£615 28/04/2023
to support emerging talent
National Lottery Community Fund - RABBLE React 'Can You See Me?' workshops
£9,900 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a series of self-development and employability workshops for adults at risk or currently experiencing homelessness. The project aims to support individuals to develop skills what will help them to develop the ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-RABBLE Theatre
£5,000 22/06/2022
Towards programme costs to provide a structured, high-quality, paid internship for two early-career actors who identify as neurodivergent. Interns acquire new skills, make contacts, gain career advice and enjoy a professional experience.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/04/2022
Project to enable RABBLE to develop our creative & engagement work that enables us to be a genuine asset to the life of our diverse community.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£107,055 01/02/2022
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.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 09/10/2020
RABBLE Theatre: Core support for acclaimed, community-focused theatre and outreach
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CAROLYN HYDE Appointed: 2023
  • DANIEL CAMERON Appointed: 2024
  • KIRSTI LEE WILSON Appointed: 2019
  • LOUISE ALISON ASHMORE GILMOUR (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • NICHOLAS WALKER Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2018, number: 1179903
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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Caversham Court Stables
Church Road
Caversham
READING
RG4 7AD

Objectives

To advance education of the public in the arts, in particular through training and workshops in all aspects of theatre, and through providing performances for the benefit of the public, in order to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds in Reading, nationally and internationally to make their own change and engage in life-long learning.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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