Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 10
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

CULTURE SHIFT 

Culture Shift develops partnership programmes with organisations working across education, health andsocial care. With partners and stakeholders we identify unmet needs and define shared goals. Wedevelop creative interventions delivering on our shared ambitions which focus on relief for people living in disadvantageous circumstances, and skills development to support people to live full lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers including the Government recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
31/10/22£341,426£310,826£30,60060
31/10/21£486,144£384,287£101,85760
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.cultureshift.org.uk

info@cultureshift.org.uk

030 300 39120

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Social & legal advocacy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 60 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 Heritage Fund£249,011
National Lottery Community Fund£126,225
Sussex Community Foundation£34,630
BBC Children in Need£30,000
People's Health Trust£9,526
DCMS£4,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Culture Shift
£249,011 31/07/2023
Sussex By Train
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift
£10,000 20/03/2023
15
Funding was provided for project costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift
£5,000 11/03/2022
Funding was provided for 'creative cafes' to help young people develop employability skills and connect with employers.
People's Health Trust - Delta 7 Reborn
£9,526 12/01/2022
This two-year project in Eastbourne provides fortnightly creative workshops (drama, music and visual arts) to Delta 7, a group of people with learning disabilities who love playing music and wish to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Being Our Best Selves In Nature
£126,225 04/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a specially designed three year creative wellbeing programme to support learning disabled adults reconnect with the Sussex environment for the benefit of their ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift
£4,720 12/03/2021
6
Funding was provided to support the delivery of two mini online Creative Café Career events.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Culture Shift
£30,000 21/12/2020
This project will deliver after-school well-being programmes for children and young people experiencing mental health challenges in East Sussex. Activities will result in improved well-being, peer ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift CIC
£4,910 29/10/2020
12
Funding was provided to enable students from Crawley College to gain work experience and career advice by linking with media and digital professionals who will be given support in setting tasks and ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,400 07/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift CIC
£5,000 18/11/2019
6
Funding will be provided to help strengthen and develop relationships between Culture Shift, Sussex Prisoners Families and prisoners and their families.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Culture Shift
£5,000 18/11/2019
11
Funding was provided to support a creative café in eight schools/colleges providing an opportunity for young people to connect with inspiring professionals to learn about their working lives and to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/10/2020, number: 1192000
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

East Sussex College Lewes
1 Mountfield Road
LEWES
BN7 2XH

Objectives

1. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF EAST SUSSEX IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY. 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.(FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.)3. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY, FOR EXAMPLE:(A) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(B) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;(C) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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