Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 12

UTOPIA THEATRE

As a leading voice for African Theatre, we produce and create for the British and international stage, exceptional world class African theatre with imaginative flair. We create old and new plays and re-imagine classics in a way that demonstrates their contemporary relevance and appeal to a new audience and regular theatregoers.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/03/24		£462	£370	£92	n/a
31/03/23?		£0	£0	£0	n/a
30/06/22		£16	£5	£10	n/a
30/06/21	*	£2	£2	£0	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

https://utopiatheatre.co.uk/

director@utopiatheatre.co.uk

01142013837

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Sheffield City,

Who it helps

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Utopia Theatre
£6,000	13/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Utopia Theatre
£60,000	23/02/2022 24	Towards core costs to staff and pilot a Youth Academy to upskill young people with African oral storytelling and performance techniques.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£21,994	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.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

ALICIA HARRISON-OBAFEMI Appointed: 2021

DR MAX P BERESFORD FARRAR Appointed: 2018

KALTUM OSMAN RIVERS Appointed: 2023

MAXINE JACQUELINE GREAVES (Chair) Appointed: 2022

OLUBUKOLA OSHIN Appointed: 2018

PATRICIA CUMPER Appointed: 2020

SHAMIMA NOOR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Marketing & Communications Manager

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/10/2020, number: 1192008

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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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; AR21: 3 days late,

Main office

Crucible Theatre
55 Norfolk Street
SHEFFIELD
South Yorks
S1 1DA

Objectives

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS THROUGH THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, AND CREATING ACTIVITIES,WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS FOR EXISTING AND EMERGING ACTORS, PLAYWRIGHTS AND OTHER THEATREPRACTITIONERS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UK PUBLIC AND TO ENGAGE WIDER WITH AFRICAN THEATRE IN THEUK AND INTERNATIONALLY.2. TO PROMOTE RACIAL HARMONY PARTICULARLY THE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIALGROUPS BY PROMOTING THEATRICAL ACTIVITIES IN RACIALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES.

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