Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 14

BRICKS

Bricks supports the collaboration of local communities, creative communities and social enterprises to ensure they have a strong voice in the city of Bristol, together instigating and delivering creative community activities and managing building assets for the long term.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£213,496	£213,425	£71	5
04/04/22	£158,648	£178,217	£-19,569	4
04/04/21	£78,302	£60,845	£17,457	10
04/04/20	£19,937	£18,196	£1,741	5

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.bricksbristol.org

jack@bricksbristol.org

07780503180

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Bristol City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
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

Quartet Community Foundation	£50,044
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,750
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£10,000
Power to Change	£8,000
Co-Operative Group	£2,996

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bricks Bristol
£12,092	20/03/2024	This is to extend existing UKSPF Community Fund funding, as agreed with Bristol City Council.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bricks Bristol
£3,000	17/07/2023	To enable 12 highly experienced and local learning-disabled artists to contribute artwork to the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bricks Bristol
£5,000	24/05/2023	For staff and core costs to collaborate with residents to deliver community led activity and shape the future of St Annes House.
Power to Change - Bricks (PU)
£8,000	25/11/2022	Grant to Bricks (PU)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bricks - St Annes
£2,996	22/10/2022	We wish to develop a youth space at St Annes House for local young people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bricks Bristol
£24,992	22/09/2022	Coordinating and supporting Brislington’s VCSE sector’s efforts to ensure all community members have access to services to support them through the cost of living crisis.
Quartet Community Foundation - Community Action St Annes
£4,960	12/05/2021 6	Facilitating St Annes community together through a series of events and activities to both programme community activities and test out how a they can run a creative community hub.
National Lottery Community Fund - St Annes community activities coming together and work on community asset plan
£9,900	06/04/2021	The funding will be used to provide a facilitator to work with local residents to bring the community together with fun and engaging activities that support shared identity whilst ensuring they have ....more The funding will be used to provide a facilitator to work with local residents to bring the community together with fun and engaging activities that support shared identity whilst ensuring they have a strong voice in decisions that affect them.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bricks Bristol
£10,000	08/02/2021	NL20 Community Led Heritage Discovering St Annes
National Lottery Community Fund - ABCD Mapping - St Anne's
£9,850	26/09/2019 12	ABCD Mapping - St Anne's

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ELEANOR GEORGE Appointed: 2020

JAMES FLINTOFF Appointed: 2022

JOANNA LATHWOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2019

PATRICIA BROWN Appointed: 2023

ROBIN HAGUE Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/04/2019, number: 1183118

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
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

St. Annes House
St. Annes Road
St. Annes Park
BRISTOL
BS4 4AB

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING OF AN ART GALLERY, THE PROMOTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE AND SERVICES TO ARTISTS.

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