Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE 

To advance and promote education and enjoyment for the benefit of the public locally, nationally and internationally, by the encouragement of arts and heritage, in particular the areas of dramatic art, music and exhibitions. BAC's mission is to inspire people to take creative risks to shape the future.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £19,164,731 available, equivalent to 35 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 43 years

www.bac.org.uk

boxoffice@bac.org.uk

020 7223 2223

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£4,734£6,560£-1,826£205£20,531£19,16535.17440
31/03/22£5,798£5,754£44£119£22,357£1,2122.55935
31/03/21£5,793£4,685£1,108£81£22,313£8152.16320
31/03/20*£5,732£6,401£-669£166£21,205£2270.46820
31/03/19£10,932£6,851£4,081£204£21,874£14,18324.880306
31/03/18*£12,300£4,982£7,319£178£17,793£9,60923.1800
31/03/17£6,449£5,101£1,348£120£10,474£2,2035.2790
31/03/16£10,061£5,424£4,637£139£9,126£1,8744.1670
31/03/15£5,811£4,667£1,144£924£4,490£6701.7670
31/03/14£4,639£3,625£1,014£859£3,346£1020.3750
31/03/13£4,922£3,699£1,222£742£2,332£90750
31/03/12£2,744£2,634£111£137£1,110£540.2550
31/03/11£2,836£2,804£31£561£999£880.4510
31/03/10£3,123£2,627£497£602£968£830.4550
31/03/09£2,523£2,634£-111£556£471£1690.8510
31/03/08£3,357£3,109£248£601£582£2901.1690
31/03/07*£1,594£1,546£48£531£334£1521.2460
31/03/06*£1,386£1,371£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,271£1,308£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,363£1,452£-89£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 35.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 74 employees
  • 40 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
DCMS£2,211,881
Esmee Fairbairn£723,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£548,633
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch£142,000
National Lottery Community Fund£91,371
Youth Music£88,954
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
£0 06/12/2023
Grant of £18,620 towards extending and improving the building management system (BMS). Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870).
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Battersea Arts Centre
£82,000 01/09/2023
Support for The Agency 10th Anniversary Celebration and Organisational Development for The Agency to become an independent entity
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
£2,800 25/01/2023
£2,800 (7 days) to provide an eco audit.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£298,434 27/10/2021
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 ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 28/04/2021
to support a commissioning programme for disabled artists and to enable disabled artists to mentor non-disabled artists to embed access into their new work across 2021/22
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£26,490 30/03/2021
8
BAC to support 20 new young people from Wandsworth (15-25) to join its creative entrepreneurship programme The Agency & create Covid-relief social change projects for their communities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£248,633 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - The Agency - COVID-19 Extension
£91,371 27/11/2020
6
The organisation is using the funding in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre (London) and Contact Theatre (Manchester) to empower their youth steering team to grow and strengthen grow their social ....more
The Wimbledon Foundation - Create & Learn PlayKits for Wandsworth
£5,000 03/06/2020
BAC will be repurposed as a community hub for relief; packaging creative play kits for children (6-10 years) distributed in monthly parcels across Wandsworth. State primary schools would be hubs for ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£60,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£22,500 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018/19-2021/22
£706,665 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 ....more
DCMS - BAC Proposal to ACE Culture Recovery Fund
£892,381 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - BAC Proposal to ACE Culture Recovery Fund
£314,401 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Battersea Arts Centre
£60,000 23/01/2020
Phase 3 of Co-Creating Change network, where learning from Phase 1 & 2 will be embedded, leading to a greater impact and more opportunities for communities and a replicable model offered to all.
Youth Music - BAC Beatbox Academy on Tour
£88,954 08/11/2019
BAC Beatbox Academy on Tour
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£587,000 02/07/2019
36
Towards a programme that champions the co-creation of creative projects by participants and professional artists, working in five locations and developing a model of how to tour co-created work.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£300,000 22/05/2019
The Co-Creators
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£60,000 01/10/2018
24
Towards the work of Artistic Directors of the Future, specifically the salary of a new general manager, plus funding towards the Up Next leadership programme.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£350,000 06/08/2018
To develop and deliver a creative entrepreneurship programme for the London Borough of Culture
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Co-Creating Change Network
£250,000 03/08/2018
36
Battersea Arts Centre will bring together a new network of interdisciplinary cultural organisations, individuals and social sector bodies to develop, promote and share models of outstanding ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Battersea Arts Centre
£120,000 26/03/2018
The Co-Creating Change Network will enable cultural organisations to develop their civic and social role by sharing skills, approaches and good practice across different geographic areas.
Walcot Foundation - Lambeth/Wandsworth Capacity Building Programme
£240,000 30/08/2017
36
Lambeth/Wandsworth Capacity Building Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - The Agency
£883,771 17/08/2017
37
The Agency supports young people, aged 15-25, through a 28-week creative training programme to develop their own social change projects with and for the community in which they live. Their creativity ....more
Youth Music - BAC Beatbox Programme
£29,386 17/03/2017
BAC Beatbox Programme
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
£50,000 16/06/2016
Fit out of Grand Hall
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£545,000 19/04/2016
36
Towards the continuation of the Community Touring Network, a partnership programme in areas typically associated with low levels of cultural engagement.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - An exceptional resilience grant
£250,000 01/12/2015
24
To support BAC in the aftermath of the fire that destroyed their Grand Hall, in order to maintain activities which achieve their mission ‘to inspire people to take creative risks to shape the ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£36,300 08/10/2015
Battersea: The Fight for Our Rights
National Lottery Community Fund - The Agency
£382,572 12/08/2015
38
This project will build upon pilot work which aims to develop the skills, confidence and professional networks of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in London and Manchester to enable them ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£140,000 22/07/2015
24
Towards core costs whilst it recovers from the fire which destroyed the Grand Hall.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Agency Development Framework
£50,000 23/05/2015
7
The development funding will allow the project to scope and test change to for the future growth of its The Agency Project by exploring potential locations, local context, partners and beneficiary ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Create: developing a replicable and scalable model of arts participation
£10,000 02/03/2015
5
To user test a model of arts participation that all arts organisations could adopt and adapt to attract a wider range of participants and stakeholders.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£360,000 11/04/2013
Towards a programme of work that helps to develop local cultural infrastructure in Hull, Great Yarmouth, Darlington, Gloucester, Torbay and Thanet.
Nesta - ACE0251
£75,920 15/10/2011
ACE (Arts Council England) Digital R&D Fund programme grant to Battersea Arts Centre Grant Ref ACE0251
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - World Stages London - Babel
£145,000 11/04/2011
Core support towards a spectacular outdoor show based on the Babel story, developed through participatory projects across London - developed by four of the seven partners in World Stages London with ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£90,000 20/05/2010
36
Towards Project costs Towards a programme of production support for emerging companies.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Battersea Arts Centre
£200,000 14/02/2008
12
Towards Other Towards the organisation's five year business plan leading to enhanced financial sustainability by 2013.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-60
  • ANU GIRI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Business & Operations, Bfi Festivals
  • LIZ FOSBURY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer
  • MALIK GUL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/07/1981, number: 282857
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/06/1981, number: 01569115
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
  • Investing charity funds 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; AR20: 8 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR07: 7 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 11 days late,
Main office

Battersea Arts Centre
Lavender Hill
London
SW11 5TN

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE:1. TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE EDUCATION OF THE ARTS AND HERITAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, BY ENCOURAGEMENT, IN PARTICULAR, IN THE AREAS OF DRAMATIC ART, MUSIC AND EXHIBITIONS2. TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BATTERSEA’S OLD TOWN HALL AS A BUILDING OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST,3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND HERITAGE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MUSEUM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH AND THE SURROUNDING LOCALITY

Data Sources

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