Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 14

LITTLE WORLD LIMITED

The promotion of public education and the encouragement of the arts through the visual and performance arts. It achieves its charitable objectives through its principal activities. Horse + Bamboo exists to pursue excellence in visual theatre and related activities and to take innovative theatre to sections of the community who may not easily access it.

Analysis by Giving is Great

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:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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	£363	£299	£64	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22	£226	£222	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/21	£232	£176	£57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/20	£209	£225	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19	£219	£210	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18	£261	£322	£-61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£335	£341	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£441	£358	£82	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£389	£288	£101	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£277	£282	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£297	£307	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£296	£298	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£273	£277	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£288	£307	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£246	£280	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£339	£325	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£250	£265	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£258	£279	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£314	£287	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£237	£243	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 39 years

www.horseandbamboo.org

info@horseandbamboo.org

01706220241

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 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	£160,000
The Bromley Trust	£35,000
The Foyle Foundation	£20,000
Co-Operative Group	£3,444

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant for prison-related work
£7,000	30/01/2023	Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally. This is a six ....more Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally. This is a six month grant restricted to prison-related work.
DCMS - Capital Investment Programme
£160,000	04/03/2022	The Capital Investment Programme is an open access programme to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, ....more The Capital Investment Programme is an open access programme to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce environmental impact.
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant for prison-related work
£14,000	17/01/2022	Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally. This is a one ....more Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally. This is a one year grant restricted to prison-related work.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	16/09/2021	towards improvements to the lift
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards animation project working with prisoners and their families
£14,000	18/01/2021 12	Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally.This is a one ....more Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally.This is a one year grant restricted to animation projects working with prisoners and their families (fast-track one year grant renewal in response to Covid-19 pandemic).
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Horse and Bamboo Theatre
£3,444	15/11/2019	We want to offer free sensory play activities and creative learning experiences for babies and toddlers living in disadvantaged areas.
National Lottery Community Fund - Baby Explorers, bringing families together to improve life chances for
£9,800	30/08/2018 12	The funding will be used to hold a series of story and play centred workshops for young babies and families. The project aims to encourage early development and will work with other agencies to help ....more The funding will be used to hold a series of story and play centred workshops for young babies and families. The project aims to encourage early development and will work with other agencies to help connect families to key support and services.
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards animation project working with prisoners and their families
£42,000	17/01/2018 36	Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally.This is a three ....more Horse + Bamboo is a puppet and mask theatre company serving the community of Pennine Lancashire as well as touring productions for adults and children nationally and internationally.This is a three year grant restricted to animation projects working with prisoners and their families.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Horse + Bamboo Theatre
£30,000	07/07/2014	Towards costs associated with developing Horse + Bamboo Theatre's Baby-Boo theatre and outreach work in the community.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Littleworld Limited
£69,600	30/06/2014	Different Moons: enhancing confidence in the Asian Heritage community of Haslingden, Pennine Lancashire
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Horse + Bamboo Theatre
£59,014	16/12/2009 36	Towards Project costs Towards a programme of performances for young families.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-66

DEYRICK ALLEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Managing Director

DR ALEXANDRA MCDONALD (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Interpreter & Translator

JONATHAN BALL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

JOSEPH OLDFIELD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: N/A

PETER JAMES LATHAM Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Management Consultant

VICTORIA FOULDS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Communication Support Worker

ANTHONY MCCLEAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Administrator

CAROLINE ECCLES Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Film Producer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/02/1985, number: 292326
Registered at Companies House on 14/06/1983, number: 01731859

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
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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

679 Bacup Road
Waterfoot
ROSSENDALE
BB4 7HB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF PUPPETRY, PRINTMAKING, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, MUSIC AND CERAMICS AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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