Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 4

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE

Colchester Arts Centre aims to provide a diverse and eclectic performance programme of arts that respond to current practices in arts and meet specific needs of the community it serves. The artistic policy is to create a bias towards new work, innovation and experimentation. It also creates work to promote and inclusive and accessible programme.

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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

Established: 40 years

www.colchesterartscentre.com

info@colchesterartscentre.com

01206500900

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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		£999	£901	£97	£0	£985	£875	11.7	23	111
31/03/22		£854	£652	£202	£15	£888	£826	15.2	18	64
31/03/21	*	£626	£322	£304	£14	£685	£518	19.3	17	88
31/03/20		£780	£773	£7	£0	£382	£368	5.7	30	60
31/03/19		£827	£842	£-15	£11	£375	£359	5.1	20	57
31/03/18		£897	£874	£23	£0	£390	£373	5.1	15	0
31/03/17		£830	£835	£-6	£0	£367	£348	5	14	0
31/03/16	*	£838	£790	£48	£0	£372	£351	5.3	7	0
31/03/15		£821	£825	£-4	£2	£324	£301	4.4	8	0
31/03/14	*	£862	£860	£2	£1	£328	£302	4.2	9	0
31/03/13		£778	£774	£4	£2	£327	£298	4.6	8	0
31/03/12	*	£558	£542	£16	£1	£326	£294	6.5	7	0
31/03/11	*	£675	£667	£9	£2	£314	£278	5	6	0
31/03/10		£710	£705	£6	£1	£309	£269	4.6	6	0
31/03/09?	*	£757	£728	£29	£62	£303	£259	4.3	6	0
31/03/07	*	£749	£798	£-49	£81	£256	£201	3	5	0
31/03/06		£793	£797	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£649	£674	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£644	£622	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 69%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 11.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

23 employees
111 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Investment Funds
£19,800	28/01/2022	We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. 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 where ....more We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. 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 where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government to help deliver this vision.
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£100,000	12/02/2021	Weston Culture Fund
DCMS - National Portfolio organisation 2018 - 2020 (SSO)
£194,204	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 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 where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
DCMS - Survival
£51,986	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Cultural Capital Kickstart Fund
£128,182	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Rebirth
£25,990	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Age Range of Trustees: 34-71

ANTHONY CLAVANE, Occupation: Journalist

ANTHONY ROBERTS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

CATHERINE TURNER Appointed: 2011, Occupation: None

CLLR MICHAEL SPINDLER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director

ELAINE BARKER, Occupation: Self Employed

ELIZABETH PRICE, Occupation: Broadcaster

JAYMINI NAKUM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Cultural Arts Practitioner

JULIA STEPHEN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Social Interviewer, Other trusteeship: COLCHESTER MERCURY THEATRE LIMITED,

LOUISE GOODWIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Human Resources

NIGEL HILDRETH (Chair), Occupation: Teacher, Other trusteeship: COLCHESTER YOUTH ARTS PARTNERSHIP,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/02/1984, number: 288652
Registered at Companies House on 12/01/1984, number: 01782715

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

19 returns made; AR21: 36 days late, AR16: 3 days late, AR14: 55 days late, AR12: 83 days late, AR11: 30 days late, AR09: 360 days late, AR07: 254 days late,

Main office

Colchester Arts Centre
Church Street
COLCHESTER
CO1 1NF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING ANDENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERFORMING ARTS, VISUAL ARTS AND LITERARY ARTS BY PROVINDING ACCOMODATION AND FACILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COLCHESTER

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