Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -9
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

OVALHOUSE THEATRE LIMITED 

Established in the 1930s as a philanthropic educational project, Oval House developed as a specialist arts centre in the 1960s, maintaining a strong educational core to the work while establishing an identity as a seed-bedding space for some of Britain's most cutting edge new artists. The work falls into three areas, of equal policy priority:Theatre, Youth Arts and Arts in Education.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £1,452,841 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 40 years

www.brixtonhouse.co.uk

hello@brixtonhouse.co.uk

02075820080

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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£1,363£2,660£-1,297£328£8,532£-1,453-6.6460
31/03/22£2,081£1,168£913£106£9,834£130.1120
31/03/21*£1,109£783£326£118£8,909£2694.1110
31/03/20*£1,013£1,066£-53£119£8,665£8,82199.3181
31/03/19*£940£1,143£-204£200£162£4524.7232
31/03/18£999£1,222£-222£224£349£5815.7230
31/03/17£1,138£1,166£-27£285£555£6797280
31/03/16£1,272£1,130£142£239£524£6376.8280
31/03/15*£1,030£1,128£-98£189£394£4414.7240
31/03/14£1,147£1,137£10£152£455£4084.3230
31/03/13£1,057£1,051£6£110£425£3113.5220
31/03/12£1,006£1,177£-171£113£390£2742.8220
31/03/11£1,142£1,183£-41£138£555£3783.8220
31/03/10£1,051£1,058£-7£157£592£3674.2150
31/03/09£1,048£1,177£-129£177£572£3633.7150
31/03/08£1,001£1,018£-17£163£774£4745.6200
31/03/07£925£979£-54£168£817£5076.2190
31/03/06£1,121£836£285£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£778£767£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£683£671£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 34.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 26%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: -17%
Reserves/Spending: -6.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 32 months
Quick Ratio: 20.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 46 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lambeth,

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£2,674,956
Garfield Weston Foundation£35,000
Co-Op Foundation£35,000
Esmee Fairbairn£33,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ovalhouse Theatre Limited
£3,000 27/02/2023
Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Walcot Foundation - FRESH: Brixton House Young Producers Programme
£10,000 06/03/2022
12
The Fresh Young Producers programme from Brixton House Theatre (formerly Ovalhouse Theatre but at a new site) is a vocational training programme that will support and equip young people aged 11-16 ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ovalhouse Theatre Limited
£30,000 23/02/2022
12
Towards core costs to support for the development of Alleyne&, generating research, sharing knowledge, and creating tools based on the Neurology of Power project
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£125,000 22/10/2021
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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£35,000 09/04/2021
Brixton House Capital Project
DCMS - Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
£484,277 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 - Brixton House CRF
£250,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Cultural Capital Kickstart Fund
£1,215,152 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Brixton House CRF 2
£125,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Greater London Authority - Grant to Let's Build
£12,000 10/09/2019
Working with cihldren to design and build a temporary outdoor performance space for imagination and creativity on the site of a disused playground on Somerleyton Road, Brixton
Co-Op Foundation - Let's Build
£35,000 26/04/2019
Young people experiencing or at risk of loneliness will design and build a temporary theatre space which will then be used for summer holiday activities for young people in Brixton.
DCMS - Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
£475,527 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
£475,527 01/04/2018
Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
DCMS - Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
£118,882 01/04/2018
To support Ovalhouse NPO 2018-2022
Co-Op Foundation - Ovalhouse - 2018
£35,000 29/01/2018
Building on their pilot project, Ovalhouse will tour their 'Random Selfies' production around England and will also deliver their 'Find a Friend' initiative in schools.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Ovalhouse Theatre
£50,000 16/06/2017
Redevelopment on new site in Brixton, SW9
Co-Op Foundation - Random Selfes
£20,000 03/02/2017
Working with award-winning children’s playwright Mike Kenny to develop a play about youth loneliness, with input from workshops in South London schools.
Walcot Foundation - Creative Employability and Young Associates programmes
£75,000 21/07/2015
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Creative Employability and Young Associates programmes
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-67
  • DAVID BRYAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Management Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1984, number: 288931
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/03/1984, number: 01796513
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 38 days late, AR20: 5 days late, AR19: 33 days late, AR15: 11 days late,
Main office

Brixton House Theatre
385 Coldharbour Lane
LONDON
SW9 8GL

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE THE MANTAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES ESPECIALLY THOSE OF LIMITED MEANS RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LAMBETH AND SUCH OTHER NEIGHBOURHOODS AS MAY HEREAFTER BE DECIDED. (B) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENSHIP AND IN THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA AND CRAFTS. (C) TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SICIAL RESEARCH SO THAT THERE MAY BE BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH TO BE PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LAMBETH

Data Sources

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