Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 12

Future income +5
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 20

BLUE CABIN CIO

Blue Cabin nurtures meaningful relationships between care experienced individuals, and the people and organisations who are part of their lives. Creativity is at the heart of all that we do. We prioritize work in the North East.We provide access to creative experiences, training for the adults in their lives and carry out research and evaluation to influence practice and policy.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple 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

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 £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£308	£330	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£667	£443	£224	£0	£224	£141	3.8	3	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Balance Sheet History

Established: 3 years

www.wearebluecabin.com

hello@wearebluecabin.com

07967719949

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups

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

Youth Music	£180,000
The Segelman Trust	£105,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£80,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
County Durham Community Foundation	£19,500
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£18,642
Esmee Fairbairn	£12,500
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£7,995

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Blue Cabin CIO
£80,000	12/12/2023 48	Main Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Youth Music - This Is The Place
£150,000	26/10/2023	This Is The Place
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	22/08/2023	Core funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Blue Cabin CIO
£12,500	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Blue Cabin CIO
£8,642	02/02/2023	Creative activities for children and young people in care within south Tyneside
County Durham Community Foundation - This is The Place
£19,500	26/09/2022	To support sessions for Care Experienced Children.
Youth Music - This Is The Place
£30,000	20/07/2022	This Is The Place
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Blue Cabin CIO
£10,000	17/03/2022	Supporting relationships between care experienced individuals, and the people in their lives through creative activities with artists
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Blue Cabin
£105,000	22/02/2022 36	To support core costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Developing and delivering 'Life Story Work' to care experienced children and young people in Gateshead
£7,995	06/03/2020	Developing and delivering 'Life Story Work' to care experienced children and young people in Gateshead

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

ADAM DAVID KENT (Chair) Appointed: 2021

CATHERINE HEARNE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant

MARK DIBBLE Appointed: 2021

RYAN HUMPHREY Appointed: 2021

SEDIL KILIC Appointed: 2022

WENDY PRICE Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/07/2021, number: 1195152

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

2 returns made; all on time

Main office

13 Brighton Gardens
GATESHEAD
NE8 4SN

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CARE-EXPERIENCED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE UK BY INFLUENCING POLICY, CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO CREATIVE EXPERIENCES, TO HELP THEM TO GAIN SKILLS, INCREASE IN CONFIDENCE, BUILD STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS AND IMPROVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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