Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 7

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3
Multiple returns filed late: -2

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 24

ZOO CO CREATIVE LTD

Zoo Co are an award-winning Croydon based arts organisation who create high quality, accessible theatre and creative engagement for young people. Accessibility is at the core of Zoo Co's work and they are driven to breaking down barriers to theatre that people may face, be they financial or physical. Zoo Co believe theatre is better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently
Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 4 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23?	*	£347	£352	£-5	n/a
31/07/22		£202	£204	£-2	n/a
31/07/21		£152	£138	£13	n/a
31/07/20	*	£135	£92	£43	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.wearezooco.co.uk

florence@wearezooco.co.uk

07394055476

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Sports & recreational facilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
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

DCMS	£135,170
Esmee Fairbairn	£120,000
The Foyle Foundation	£25,000
Postcode Society Trust	£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,920

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ZOO CO CREATIVE LTD
£120,000	06/09/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs to apply a highly co-produced model of creative engagement in Croydon to develop greater disabled and young creative leadership in Croydon and Nationally
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000	10/07/2023	towards NightShift a theatre production with a 50/50 Deaf and hearing production team and cast presented as part of Croydon City of Culture 2023
Postcode Society Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£15,000	30/06/2023	Support year of activity for Borough of Culture with young & disabled people in Croydon inc. youth theatre, NightShift, Bossy & BSL course.
National Lottery Community Fund - BOSSY - Co-creation
£9,920	22/07/2022	The funding will be used to develop a co-created children’s show celebrating deaf and black culture. The project aims to reduce isolation and build resilience through the arts.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£44,517	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 funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
DCMS - Zoo Co Creative - Cultural Recovery Funding
£58,628	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Zoo Co Creative Ltd - Cultural Recovery Grant
£32,025	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-60

CHE RAMSDEN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Innovations Manager

DAVID BELLWOOD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Access

ELEANOR CLAUGHTON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Producer

FOLARIN AYOMIDE AKINMADE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Freelance Writer / Actor

GRACE DICKSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Production Accountant

JENNIFER CLARE PEARCE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Marketing Director

NICHOLAS JAMES DAVID SWEETING Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Producer

ROBERT LAWRENCE STEPHENSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Centre Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2019, number: 1186349
Registered at Companies House on 06/07/2019, number: 12089377

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; AR23: 36 days late, AR20: 58 days late,

Main office

Stanley Arts
12 South Norwood Hill
LONDON
SE25 6AB

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: (1) PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WORK;(2) DEVELOPING ACCESSIBILITY IN THE ARTS THROUGH INNOVATIVE, TAILORED ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMES FOR MARGINALISED GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 7-21 AND D/DEAF AND DISABLED AUDIENCES/PARTICIPANTS;(3) THE PROVISION OF A THEATRE AND OTHER PERFORMANCE SPACES.

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