Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 11
  • Qualified accounts: -3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

MILTON KEYNES IAC

The principal activity of the company is non profit organisation promoting Arts Heritage and Culture activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • The latest accounts were qualified
  • 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
?31/08/23£314£235£79n/a
31/08/22*£351£123£229n/a
31/08/21£222£109£113n/a
31/08/20*£0£0£0n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years
(11 years as a company)

www.mkiac.org

info.MKIAC@gmail.com

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Milton Keynes,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£195,058
DCMS£31,800
Rothschild Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Milton Keynes IAC
£101,058 13/12/2023
Common Threads – a generational journal journey, with exhibitions and workshops, exploring textile heritage
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Milton Keynes Islamic Arts Heritage and Culture
£30,000 25/09/2023
Stories On The Plate: supporting female Afghan refugees in Aylesbury.
National Lottery Community Fund - Beyond Identity
£10,000 22/09/2023
The funding will be used to facilitate arts workshops culminating in an exhibition. The project aims to bring women refugees together to be creative reducing isolation and promoting integration with the wider community.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 16/12/2022
Venturing Out, Bigger and Better
National Lottery Community Fund - Stories on a Plate
£10,000 22/10/2021
The funding will be used to create a publication of participants’ recipes and associated stories and create an art installation at an art festival. The project aims to engage refugees and those from diverse ethnic communities who have felt ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to MKIAC
£94,000 17/05/2021
Building Communities and Community Buildings - the heritage of community centres and communities in MK
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Milton Keynes Islamic Arts Heritage and Culture Organisation
£5,000 17/11/2020
Towards project costs to create six Islamic art workshops for young people, disabled people and BAME culminating in cross-cultural, community exhibitions online and at Art in the Park Festival 2021.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£31,800 09/10/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 49-76
  • ANOUAR KASSIM MBE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired Lecturer
  • ANSAR BASIR HUSSAIN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Self Employed
  • AMY ZAMARRIPA SOLIS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant
  • GEORGETTE GILLIAN CHILD (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired Lecturer
  • HELEN CHAMBERLAIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: General Manager
  • PAULA BALLARD B.A. Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Accountant
  • RACHEL SINDY HAYTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Professional Artist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/05/2019, number: 1183548
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/08/2013, number: 08652500
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • 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; AR22: 45 days late, AR20: 3 days late,
Main office

23 FOSSEY CLOSE
SHENLEY BROOK END
MILTON KEYNES
MK5 7FT

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH REFERENCE TO ISLAMIC ARTS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF THE ARTS THROUGH THE CREATION AND RUNNING OF A FESTIVAL AND OTHER RELATED EVENTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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