Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

SKIMSTONE ARTS 

Skimstone Arts' supports diverse artists and those at risk of isolation, to create work with, for and about the world that matters to them. One of the North East's leading names in inclusive arts practice and social action with particular expertise in high-quality work led by , involving young people and vulnerable older people, collaborating with diverse artists, researchers and communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£180,610£185,655£-5,04510
31/03/22£225,352£206,524£18,8283
31/03/21£152,000£167,684£-15,6840
31/03/20£181,899£165,659£16,2405
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years
(16 years as a company)

www.http://skimstone.org.uk/

claire@skimstone.org.uk

07803670654

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Services for young people
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
Youth Music£247,500
DCMS£85,363
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£54,500
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£45,550
National Lottery Community Fund£9,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - Merging, moving out music for more young people
£141,090 14/10/2022
Merging, moving out music for more young people
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 23/09/2022
Celebrating unity, inclusivity, diversity through quality arts and co creation with at risk artists and communities.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Skimstone Arts
£9,800 17/03/2022
Project and core costs to support young minority ethnic people in Tyne and Wear
National Lottery Community Fund - Celebrating Diversity All Age Community Nature Positive mental health
£9,500 26/11/2021
The project will use the funding for creative activities that will be showcased during UNITY Festival 2022 which will bring people of all ages and cultures together and celebrate diversity. This aims ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£26,919 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Skimstone Arts
£5,300 24/06/2021
Core and project costs for activity with communities in Newcastle (uplift)
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Skimstone Arts
£29,700 24/06/2021
Core and project costs for activity with communities in Newcastle
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 09/04/2021
Skimstone Arts – Growing, connecting, creating, collaborating during and beyond Covid-19 2 x year core costs for artistic and organisational development to connect, create and celebrate diversity ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting young people from deprived areas of the North East, particularly Newcastle upon Tyne, to create artistic work
£9,500 18/03/2021
supporting young people from deprived areas of the North East, particularly Newcastle upon Tyne, to create artistic work
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - providing creative work experience bursaries to young people in Tyne and Wear
£750 28/01/2021
providing creative work experience bursaries to young people in Tyne and Wear
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,850 25/09/2020
"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
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Cultural training programme for young people Year 3
£35,000 02/04/2020
Cultural training programme for young people Year 3
DCMS - Continuing Culture, Creativity and Resilience through Diversity
£48,594 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Running costs to support vulnerable young people aged 16 - 25 in Newcastle.
£10,000 27/01/2020
Running costs to support vulnerable young people aged 16 - 25 in Newcastle.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 29/11/2019
Core costs support for Skimstone Arts to support artistic and organisational expansion 2019/20
Youth Music - Sonic Endeavours
£106,410 10/05/2019
Sonic Endeavours
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Cultural training programme for young people Year 2
£35,000 01/04/2019
Cultural training programme for young people Year 2
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Cultural training programme for young people Year 1
£40,000 04/01/2018
Cultural training programme for young people Year 1
Youth Music - Marvellous Music, Mentoring, Sharing, Supporting, making a move, across the North East
£101,759 27/04/2016
Marvellous Music, Mentoring, Sharing, Supporting, making a move, across the North East
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Skimstone Performance Company Ltd
£75,000 09/10/2013
Towards a comprehensive exchange training programme between Skimstone Arts' professional artists and young people with mental health problems.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-65
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/03/2019, number: 1182284
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/05/2007, number: 06261728
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Skimstone Arts
Skimstone Studios
The Newbridge Project Arts Centre
The Shie

Objectives

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE VISUAL ARTS, DRAMA, MUSIC AND FILM, BY THE PRODUCTION OF PLAYS, EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS, FILMS AND PERFORMANCES INVOLVING DIVERSE GROUPS OF DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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