Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE HOUNSLOW ARTS TRUST LTD

The charitys principal activity is to operate Watermans, an arts centre in Brentford, which provides a year-round programme of performing arts, cinema, exhibitions and new media arts. In addition, it provides participative arts programmes for a wide range of communities both in its own venue and in other community spaces across West London.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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*£1,078£1,477£-399£35£142£1411.1340
31/03/22£1,420£1,388£32£32£540£5354.6340
31/03/21£1,298£1,313£-15£35£508£4974.5270
31/03/20£1,737£1,679£57£34£523£5073.6370
31/03/19£1,998£1,893£105£33£466£4452.8361
31/03/18*£1,773£1,716£57£2£361£3352.3380
31/03/17*£1,722£1,782£-60£2£304£2721.8410
31/03/16*£1,630£1,665£-35£7£364£3262.3400
31/03/15£1,589£1,503£86£62£398£3532.8340
31/03/14£1,181£1,279£-99£58£313£2552.4300
31/03/13£1,081£1,275£-194£58£411£3143290
31/03/12£1,340£1,307£33£65£605£4964.5310
31/03/11£1,273£1,256£17£60£572£4254.1300
31/03/10£1,289£1,277£12£59£555£3963.7350
31/03/09£1,182£1,291£-109£53£542£3393.2380
31/03/08£1,344£1,253£91£46£651£3543.4190
31/03/07*£1,190£1,132£58£46£559£2672.8360
31/03/06£1,182£1,124£58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,059£1,009£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£1,153£1,220£-67n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 69%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 1.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 51 years

www.watermans.org.uk

info@watermans.org.uk

02082321015

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hounslow,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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£508,582
National Lottery Heritage Fund£33,768
City Bridge Trust£24,550
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd
£33,768 13/12/2023
A Creative Community History of Hounslow's Diaspora Food Markets
National Lottery Community Fund - Anhad
£10,000 18/03/2022
The funding will be used to provide the necessary decoration for the event and fund the performing artist’s fee. The project aims to support social and cultural integration within the local community bringing high quality South Asian culture to ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£101,972 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
DCMS - ACE Loneliness Fund
£31,000 18/01/2021
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 and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,950 01/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
£9,990 14/05/2020
Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Adapting and staying inclusive
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd (trading as Watermans)
£24,550 08/05/2020
A grant of £24,550 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
£122,917 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and ....more
DCMS - Creative People and Places Loneliness Projects
£31,000 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and ....more
DCMS - Watermans Culture Recovery Funding
£144,669 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Culture recovery Fund R2 Application
£67,074 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
£120,696 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - Circulate 2019
£50,000 01/04/2019
I am writing to offer you a grant of up to £50,000 towards the Circulate Outdoor Arts programme for 2019; Four presenting partners – Watermans Art Centre, Vision Redbridge, Royal Docks Delivery Team and Stratford Circus – will each host 3 outdoor ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental Health Awareness Month at Bell Sq
£9,972 22/02/2019
12
The project will organise two informative outdoor events and deliver engagement workshops for people in the local community. The aim is to bring people together and raise awareness of the impact of poor mental health.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hounslow Arts Trust Limited
£20,000 30/07/2018
24
This project will provide a performing arts club to young people who have a learning, physical and/or sensory disability to help increase their self-esteem, express their ideas and develop positive friendships.
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
£120,696 01/04/2018
National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
£30,174 01/04/2018
To support National Portfolio Organisation 2018 - 2022
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Watermans
£19,996 05/02/2015
6
To fund the Employment & Training Adviser for 15 days and delivery of employability training tutor for 8 days. Provide the work placements supervision & support for 10 weeks
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-80
  • DUNCAN SMITH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None
  • DANIEL BOWRING Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Magician
  • DR MANJIT HUNJAN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Public Health Specialist
  • HELEN LITTLE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Curator
  • JAN LENNOX Appointed: 2000
  • JOANNA RENATA MLUDZINSKA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • ZULANDI VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/05/1974, number: 267426
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/03/1974, number: 01164904
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 119 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR07: 20 days late,
Main office

124
Finchley Rd
London
NW3 5JS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

1. HOUNSLOW 2. NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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