Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

THE GRAEAE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED 

Graeae is a disabled-led theatre company that profiles the skills of disabled actors, writers and directors. The artistic approach creates aesthetically accessible productions that include a disabled and non-disabled audience. The company has built an enviable reputation for producing thrilling and innovative work, particularly built around the creative use of sign language and audio description.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 42 years

www.graeae.org

info@graeae.org

02076136900

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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*£1,396£1,725£-329£224£2,580£1,0817.5190
31/03/22£1,480£1,573£-93£168£2,908£1,2039.2180
31/03/21£1,620£1,099£521£176£3,001£1,01711.1150
31/03/20£1,306£1,302£3£154£2,481£7226.7161
31/03/19£1,284£1,466£-181£145£2,477£7876.4130
31/03/18£1,536£1,734£-198£123£2,659£8525.9180
31/03/17£1,186£984£202£116£2,857£7409120
31/03/16£1,219£1,210£9£162£2,655£6166.1170
31/03/15£1,065£1,075£-10£183£2,646£5716.4100
31/03/14£1,096£1,142£-46£179£2,656£5305.6110
31/03/13£978£1,056£-78£188£2,702£5366.1100
31/03/12£1,202£1,318£-116£178£2,780£4794.4130
31/03/11£1,085£1,231£-146£171£2,895£4484.4110
31/03/10£1,898£951£947£133£3,041£4105.2110
31/03/09£2,362£748£1,614£109£2,094£3605.8110
31/03/08£639£473£165£75£480£3448.7110
31/03/07*£742£698£45£80£180£1723110
31/03/06£745£717£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£761£807£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£717£606£111£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 42%
Reserves/Spending: 7.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 8.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 19 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£822,918
Esmee Fairbairn£510,400
City Bridge Trust£260,400
Garfield Weston Foundation£198,107
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation£20,100
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£20,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£200,000 07/12/2022
Towards core costs for the continuation and expansion of the Write To Play programme offering a range of opportunities for disabled writers
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£40,400 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£198,107 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,272 30/10/2020
"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 ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 05/08/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£200,000 17/06/2020
24
Towards unrestricted costs of Graeae's work profiling and supporting Deaf and disabled actors, writers and directors.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£50,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
DCMS - National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
£574,784 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 - Graeae Theatre Company Ltd - We Shall Not Be Removed access support, research and promotion
£36,000 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 ....more
DCMS - Graeae Theatre Company Ltd - #WeShallNotBeMoved
£30,000 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 ....more
DCMS - Graeae Theatre Company Ltd - Online access training resources
£8,000 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 ....more
DCMS - Graeae: Supporting Access and Operations
£131,862 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£260,400 26/03/2020
£260,400 (£49,920; £50,968; £52,048; £53,159; £54,304) towards the 0.8FTE salary costs of the Training and Learning Co-ordinator and associated costs of the Rollettes, The Young Company and The ....more
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£20,100 26/11/2019
24
Ensemble Foundation
National Lottery Community Fund - New Rollettes 2020
£9,520 18/10/2019
12
New Rollettes 2020
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 20/09/2019
towards first year of setting up The Breathing Room, a national network of rehearsal spaces and support for Deaf and disabled artists
DCMS - National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
£564,399 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 05/12/2018
Creative Learning Reaching Children and Young People
National Lottery Community Fund - Disabled Young People's Group
£9,822 07/09/2018
12
The project aims to reduce isolation and improve self-esteem by providing a variety of sessions for people living with disabilities.
DCMS - Bradbury Studios property consultation
£9,000 01/04/2018
Bradbury Studios property consultation
DCMS - National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
£564,399 01/04/2018
National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
DCMS - National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
£141,100 01/04/2018
To support National Portfolio Application - 2018-2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Autumn School: Career Aspirations and Skills Development for Disabled
£8,530 03/05/2017
12
This project will run a week long holiday school for people who are living with disabilities and hearing impairments, who want to explore different career pathways in the arts and cultural ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Graeae Theatre Company Limited
£100,000 23/03/2017
This project is to co-create an orginal outdoor theatre performance with wounded veterans to commemorate the end of the First World War. It takes Graeae Theatre's 'Sharing the Stage' project from ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£300,000 19/04/2016
48
Towards continuing the Write to Play initiative for Deaf and disabled writers.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding
£50,000 28/01/2016
24
Towards core costs to develop opportunities in the performing arts for deaf and disabled actors, writers and directors in the North.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£138,650 28/01/2015
36
£138,650 over three years (£43,300; £47,400; £47,950) towards the salary costs of the Training and Learning Manager and associated costs of the Young Artistic Advisors, outreach and School ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£325,000 20/06/2013
Towards the costs of an artist development programme, including the new Write to Play project.
National Lottery Community Fund - Graeae Education and Outreach Minibus
£10,000 18/11/2010
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Hackney. They will use funding to purchase a mini bus for use by the group, to enable them to provide access to workshops for school children, raising ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Graeae Theatre Company
£49,000 23/10/2008
36
Towards Project costs Towards project and evaluation costs to run professional development improving access to employment in mainstream theatre for disabled actors.
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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: 32-62
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/04/1982, number: 284589
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/03/1982, number: 01619794
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 29 days late, AR07: 9 days late, AR04: 74 days late,
Main office

BRADBURY STUDIOS
138 KINGSLAND ROAD
LONDON
E2 8DY

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, OPERA, OPERETTA, JANCE, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, POETRY, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, MIME AND PUPPETRY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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