Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 11

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 16

ARTS EDUCATION EXCHANGE

Arts Education Exchange is a youth organisation based in Margate, East Kent. Our focus is to harness the potential of young people; to inspire social engagement through creative processes and to provide pathways to continued education, employment or work based training.

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Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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		£365,046	£290,305	£74,741	2
31/03/22	*	£353,000	£257,000	£96,000	0
31/03/21		£183,000	£139,354	£43,646	0
31/03/20		£155,475	£81,858	£73,617	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

https://www.artsedex.org/

hello@artsedex.org

01843316867

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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	£534,136
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£150,000
Youth Music	£56,477
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Increasing Youth Participation at Arts Education Exchange
£150,000	28/11/2022	Arts Education Exchange (AEE) is a youth organisation based in Margate focusing on young people aged 8–25 years who face barriers to participation in education, employment and wider society. The ....more Arts Education Exchange (AEE) is a youth organisation based in Margate focusing on young people aged 8–25 years who face barriers to participation in education, employment and wider society. The grant will enable AEE to expand their current offer to become an alternative education centre and advocate and amplify models of education grounded in creativity and wellbeing. It will also allow them to set up a Youth Ambassador Group to ensure young people inform the charity’s organisational programming and strategy.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	04/02/2022	Core funding for Arts Education Exchange
Youth Music - Music Exchange
£29,694	27/10/2021	Music Exchange
National Lottery Community Fund - Margate Arts Exchange
£311,976	27/10/2021	The funding will help build on the group's strategic aims to be more diverse entrepreneurial and youth – led and for young people to be better connected supported and informed with more employment ....more The funding will help build on the group's strategic aims to be more diverse entrepreneurial and youth – led and for young people to be better connected supported and informed with more employment opportunities. The organisation aims to expand their current young person arts programme and develop support across three strands including arts and engagement education and learning and employment exchange. They look to do this by delivering a personalised learning programme that focuses on a range of creative and multi- disciplinary activities including music film photography screen-printing poetry performance that is designed to enhance opportunities and tackle issues of social exclusion and low skills.
Youth Music - AEE Recordings
£26,783	26/04/2021	AEE Recordings
National Lottery Community Fund - Arts Education Exchange
£222,160	20/09/2019 24	Arts Education Exchange
National Lottery Community Fund - xChange Studios
£8,935	06/12/2018 12	The project will use funding to continue bringing young people from different communities together to realise thei potential by taking part in arts projects. The project aims to address issues of ....more The project will use funding to continue bringing young people from different communities together to realise thei potential by taking part in arts projects. The project aims to address issues of social exclusions and low skills.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

LIZO NGQOBONGWANA Appointed: 2022

MICHELE BUCHANAN Appointed: 2022

TRACIE TRIMMER-PLATMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2021

KANE ROBERT MCARTHUR Appointed: 2024

PAULO MOREIRA GOMES Appointed: 2023

VICTORIA BARROW WILLIAMS Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/07/2019, number: 1184494

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

4 returns made; AR22: 89 days late,

Main office

59 Northdown Road
MARGATE
CT9 2RJ

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 30YRS OLD, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, PARTICULARLY IN THE CREATIVE ARTS AND OTHER RELATED DISCIPLINES, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:1. ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;2. ADVANCING EDUCATION;3. RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;

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