Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 6

THAMESMEAD ARTS AND CULTURE OFFICE

Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office is a cultural space for research, production, and exchange located in Thamesmead, SE London. It engages with its local context and centers the work and role of the arts in supporting a dialogue between artists, audiences, community, and place. Its arts activities include commissioned projects and events with artists and communities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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 ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£114,371	£104,119	£10,252	32

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 3 years
(6 years as a company)

https://taco.org.uk

info@taco.org.uk

020 3904 6637

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
32 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Greater London Authority - Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office (TACO!)
£25,000	14/03/2023	Creating three new memorials and a walking tour to commemorate the murder of black teenager, Rolan Adams, in 1993 and the anti-racism movement to change Thamesmead that followed.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees:

KIRSTENE MAIRI OGG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

AMANDA CARMICHAEL Appointed: 2021

AVRIL CORROON Appointed: 2024

KATHERINE FORDE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Curator

RIMA ANILKUMAR APABHAI PATEL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Artist

VIJAY RAMAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Banker

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/10/2021, number: 1196316
Registered at Companies House on 04/10/2017, number: 10995454

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

1 returns made; all on time

Main office

TACO!
30 Poplar Place
Thamesmead
London
SE28 8BA

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:(A) SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING THEIR ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND WORK; AND(B) PROVIDING A GALLERY SPACE FOR EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS, A BOOKSHOP AND CREATIVE PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

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