Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 11

BEDFORD PLAYERS TRUST

MANAGEMENT OF ARTS VENUE AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS GENERALLY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

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

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		£267	£285	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	34
31/03/22		£290	£293	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/21		£185	£183	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/20		£201	£198	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/19		£153	£168	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	70
31/03/18		£120	£128	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£118	£118	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£78	£88	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£92	£108	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£87	£87	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£69	£72	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£46	£51	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£32	£33	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£19	£12	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£21	£25	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£11	£21	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£38	£35	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£37	£37	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£29	£23	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£36	£53	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 40 years

www.theplacebedford.org.uk

info@theplacebedford.org.uk

01234354321

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Bedford, Central Bedfordshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
34 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

DCMS	£154,735
Harpur Trust	£46,750
The Foyle Foundation	£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£9,768
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation	£7,010

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bedford Players Trust
£9,768	06/09/2023	Tastes like Home: An Audio trail telling stories of cultural heritage through food
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	21/04/2022	towards establishing the Future Arts Leaders programme and a new Inclusive Youth Theatre
National Lottery Community Fund - Creatively Combating Isolation & Loneliness
£10,000	29/07/2021	The funding will be used to provide a variety of mental health and wellbeing activities for people who are lonely and isolated. The aim is to bring people together and reduce social isolation. Costs ....more The funding will be used to provide a variety of mental health and wellbeing activities for people who are lonely and isolated. The aim is to bring people together and reduce social isolation. Costs to be met by the funding include sessional workers promotion transport and food.
Harpur Trust - Bedford Players Trust
£45,000	08/06/2021	Keeping the Lights on (core funding for the project to keep running during covid) - covid
Harpur Trust - Bedford Players Trust
£1,750	08/06/2021	The Desires Path - public art engagement project in Bedford town centre.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Bedford Players Trust
£7,010	25/11/2020 6	Donut/Money - Finance, Knowledge & Power.
DCMS - The Place Bedford - recovery & renewal
£101,990	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Rebuilding audiences & nurturing performance makers with Outdoor presentation
£52,745	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	28/11/2019	towards supporting three emerging theatre practitioners to create new work for Game Play 2021
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Bedford Players Trust (The Place Theatre)
£5,500	25/03/2019 12	Introduction to Role Play Games
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Open Minds
£3,000	07/12/2017 9	Grant to Bedford Players Trust

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

HAZERA FORTH Appointed: 2023

LEE KNAPP Appointed: 2023

JULIE HELEN BLUNT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

JUSTIN DEAVILLE Appointed: 2023

KATE ROSALIND SHAPLAND HARPIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Studies

BRENTON JACKSON Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: BEDFORD THEATRE TRUST LIMITED,

BIPINCHANDRA SHAH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Process Operator, Other trusteeships: BEDFORD THEATRE TRUST LIMITED, COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE BEDFORDSHIRE, BEDFORD COUNCIL OF FAITHS, 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION TRUST, PROJECT 229,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/10/1984, number: 290124
Registered at Companies House on 07/08/1984, number: 01839042

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR11: 11 days late, AR07: 45 days late,

Main office

THE PLACE
BRADGATE ROAD
BEDFORD
MK40 3DE

Objectives

(A) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS. (B) TO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION IN THE SAID ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BEDFORD AND SURROUNDING ENVIRONS

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