Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

DIORAMA ARTS CENTRE 

Advance the arts and culture especially those activities which seek to make the arts relevant to the community and thereby advance citizenship and community development.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
30/09/22£650£641£9£29£682£68212.8150
30/09/21£240£380£-140n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/09/20£425£514£-89n/an/an/an/an/a4
30/09/19£671£639£32£57£901£90116.977
30/09/18*£519£609£-90£53£869£86917.157
30/09/17£637£559£78£48£959£95920.650
30/09/16£475£516£-41£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/15*£433£371£63£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/14£417£357£60£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/13£61£168£-108£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/12£49£75£-26£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/11£41£44£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/10*£41£46£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/09£64£54£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/08£224£164£60£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/07*£346£241£104£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06*£347£256£91£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/05*£392£257£135£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/04*£409£255£154£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 12.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 8.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 43 years

www.olddiorama.com

office@olddiorama.com

02073830727

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 15 employees

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
Camden Giving - Old Diorama Arts Centre (ODAC)
£10,000 12/07/2022
We aspire for the young people to have opportunities to enter into paid employment after gaining transferable skills that they can take into the workplace, and a key aim for the project is to be able ....more
Camden Giving - Old Diorama Arts Centre (ODAC)
£1,000 12/07/2022
We aspire for the young people to have opportunities to enter into paid employment after gaining transferable skills that they can take into the workplace, and a key aim for the project is to be able ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-87
  • ADAM THORPE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Professor Of Socially Responsive Design
  • DR LEON REDLER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Psychotherapist. Research Assoc, Soas Univ London
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/10/1981, number: 283452
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/09/1981, number: 01585918
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 32 days late, AR10: 34 days late, AR07: 113 days late, AR06: 34 days late, AR05: 364 days late, AR04: 85 days late,
Main office

201 Drummond Street
London
NW1 3FE

Objectives

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically only for the public benefit to advance the arts and culture especially those activities which seek to make the arts relevant to the community and thereby advance citizenship and community development for the benefit of the general public.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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