Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 7
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

UNDERWIRED 

UnderWired's purpose is to create and champion fantastic stories exploring everything it means to be a woman, with an emphasis on discovering and developing female talent. Our work is designed to educate, entertain and support comprehensive access to theatre, particularly in communities where there's limited opportunity.
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Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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 was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
05/04/23£70,237£81,878£-11,6413
05/04/22£77,242£3,708£73,5340
05/04/21£20,802£3,840£16,9620
05/04/20£91,888£78,318£13,5702
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years
Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 3 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
National Lottery Community Fund£95,000
Sussex Community Foundation£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Tudor Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to UnderWired Productions
£5,000 14/07/2023
Funding was provided for staff, production and core costs.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/04/2023
towards production costs of 'Rainbow Rae'
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusive Easter & Christmas Musicals
£95,000 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to host multi-sensory Christmas musicals to be shown to audiences from predominantly low socio-economic backgrounds and young disabled people and their carers. The shows will ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to UnderWired Theatre
£5,000 16/07/2021
4
Funding was provided towards the cost of developing an inclusive muilti-sensory musical for disabled children and their families, disadvantaged families.
Tudor Trust - Grant to UnderWired
£2,000 03/10/2019
as a staff grant towards the core costs of a charity that delivers theatre productions for marginalised communities

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/12/2018, number: 1180997
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

4 Astaire Avenue
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN22 8UN

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:A) PRODUCING AND PRESENTING THEATRE WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE WIDER UNDERSTANDING OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY.B) WORKING TO FOSTER AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENDER GAP IN THE ARTS BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AS AN UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUP TO DEVELOP THEIR TALENTS. C) ACTIVELY SEEKING TO SUPPORT COMPREHENSIVE ACCESS TO THEATRE, PARTICULARLY IN COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE IS LIMITED OPPORTUNITY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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