Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 6

No PartB

All female board: -3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 3

HANDSTAND ARTS

Handstand Arts works to advance the arts through the presentation of circus performances and other arts for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively for those people living in Bristol and the surrounding areas

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why is the Board completely female?

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently and was substantially in excess of spending in the latest year
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
01/04/23		£52	£14	£38	n/a
01/04/22		£120	£141	£-21	n/a
01/04/21	*	£45	£32	£13	n/a
01/04/20		£104	£106	£-2	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.bristolcircuscity.com

rhiannon@bristolcircuscity.com

07980639255

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

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	£32,000
The Foyle Foundation	£20,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Handstand Arts CIO
£5,000	14/07/2023	For a targeted programme of activity to increase access to Circus City for a wider audience specifically Neurodiverse, D/deaf and Disabled Audiences and young people from lower socio-economic groups.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	29/11/2022	as a general contribution towards the 2023 contemporary circus festival (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£32,000	28/10/2021	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 all other options for increasing their resilience.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

AMY NICHOLLS Appointed: 2023

KATE WEBB (Chair) Appointed: 2018

SASCHA KARISSA GOSLIN Appointed: 2019

TABITHA MOYLE Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/01/2019, number: 1181762

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
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

4 returns made; AR21: 62 days late,

Main office

19 Greenbank Avenue West
BRISTOL
BS5 6EP

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE THE ARTS THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CIRCUS PERFORMANCES AND OTHER PERFORMANCE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THOSE PEOPLE LIVING IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.

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