Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 13

PENTABUS ARTS LIMITED

Pentabus is a contemporary theatre company, producing original plays about the rural world for local and national audiences. Based on a farm in Shropshire, we make a real commitment to the creative health of the countryside, encouraging artists to draw from it and urging communities to participate in it.

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Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 40 years

www.pentabus.co.uk

info@pentabus.co.uk

01584 873229

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£381	£337	£44	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£398	£416	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21		£252	£206	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£344	£332	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£302	£305	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£364	£346	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£375	£334	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£345	£291	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£334	£344	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£273	£236	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£257	£268	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£233	£235	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£248	£205	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£235	£298	£-62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£210	£191	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£247	£252	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£242	£249	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£234	£228	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£259	£233	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£237	£252	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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

Esmee Fairbairn	£43,500
Garfield Weston Foundation	£11,500
Herefordshire Community Foundation	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	21/10/2022	Weston Charity Award Winner 2021-2022 Bonus
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Pentabus Young Company work in Herefordshire
£3,000	16/08/2022	Grant to Pentabus Theatre Companty
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pentabus Theatre
£35,000	23/06/2021	Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500	09/06/2021	Weston Charity Award Winner 2021-2022
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pentabus Theatre
£8,500	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000	29/11/2018	A proposal to the Garfield Weston Foundation for continued core support enabling us to become ‘A national company, local to you’, embedding us as the Nation’s Rural Theatre Company.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pentabus Theatre
£60,000	20/09/2017 36	Towards the development of new theatre about the contemporary rural world, and making it accessible to rural communities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pentabus Theatre
£90,000	16/07/2014	Towards core funding that will enable the organisation to expand its live theatre provision in rural areas, reach more audiences and build its capacity.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-71

JACOBA KEBE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Actor

ANNE HELENE JULIETTE BIOSSE-DUPLAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Non-Profit Organisation Management

EMMA DENNIS-EDWARDS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Actor & Writer

FRANCESCA HELEN SPICKERNELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Philanthropy Manager

ISABEL FRANCES MARGARET CULLISS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Managing Partner

JOEL PETER EDWARD HALL BA, MMUS Appointed: 2024

KIERAN MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Hr Consultant

MICHELLE ANN BROWN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Artistic Director

NUALA MARY O'KANE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

MADELEINE FRANCES BEDFORD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Sign Language Interpreter

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/01/1984, number: 287909
Registered at Companies House on 19/08/1983, number: 01747169

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR06: 2 days late,

Main office

Pentabus
c/o Ludlow Assembly Rooms
1 Mill Street
Ludlow
Shropshire
SY8 1AZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED

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