Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

TARA ARTS GROUP

Tara Arts' People, Words & Art: Connecting World, through the production and promotion of cross-cultural theatre at Tara Theatre in London and on national tour.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£787£919£-132£6£3,365£6838.9103
31/03/22£895£786£109£5£3,497£82012.582
31/03/21£476£376£100n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£664£440£224£22£3,288£63117.2417
31/03/19£753£846£-94£53£3,064£3985.6423
31/03/18*£666£782£-116£15£3,157£3855.940
31/03/17£988£1,007£-20£28£3,273£5796.950
31/03/16£2,259£554£1,705£20£3,293£69515.160
31/03/15£1,357£616£741£355£1,588£54310.640
31/03/14*£515£453£62£138£847£54614.570
31/03/13£614£556£58£261£785£59212.860
31/03/12£426£409£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£461£427£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£1,168£503£665£281£677£65615.660
31/03/09£281£303£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£546£615£-70£323£34£330.650
31/03/07£489£498£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£521£502£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£404£447£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£382£382£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 20%
Reserves/Spending: 8.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 38 years

www.taratheatre.com

info@taratheatre.com

02083334457

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Esmee Fairbairn£268,000
DCMS£129,546
National Lottery Heritage Fund£99,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£17,886
Fenton Arts Trust£10,000
City Bridge Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Fenton Arts Trust - Beneficiaries 2023 – 2024
£5,000 31/03/2024
NOVA, our commissioning scheme for emerging writers of South Asian heritage, and Spoken Space, a mixed genre evening with open mic.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£60,000 13/12/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the company through a transitionary period while supporting the work of South Asian theatre practitioners and developing work within Tara's local community
Fenton Arts Trust - Beneficiaries 2022 – 2023
£5,000 31/03/2023
4 regional producers support 16 emerging South Asian artists from across the UK to develop work for a festival at Tara and a national tour.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£13,000 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/07/2022
Tara Theatre Residency Model
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£195,000 31/08/2021
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the work of South Asian theatre practitioners and develop work within Tara's local community
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 28/04/2021
towards Constellations a UK wide Artist Development Programme to support diverse emerging talents
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£99,900 18/03/2021
NL20:Amma
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award WCF award - COVID19 response
£50,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund to Regular Grant
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£10,000 15/12/2020
0
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£17,886 14/10/2020
6
Tara Arts is an award-winning multicultural theatre in London committed to connecting audiences to Indian stories and worlds. They host and produce a variety of shows including theatre, comedy, music and family performances. This grant provides ....more
DCMS - Tara: Connecting Worlds 2018-2022
£103,580 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: 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 ....more
DCMS - Tara Arts CRF Round 2
£25,966 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Tara Arts
£30,100 08/03/2017
12
Trainee Opportunities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£84,900 11/01/2017
BINGLISH the cultural heritage connecting UK-India theatre from the 1800's to the 20th Century
John Ellerman Foundation - the national touring programme "Black Theatre Live!"
£30,000 23/03/2016
36
Towards core costs specifically the national touring programme "Black Theatre Live!".
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£91,520 02/03/2016
36
Towards the Black Theatre Live consortium, aiming to develop Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic touring theatre.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£40,000 19/06/2014
£40,000 for the provision of a platform passenger lift to improve access for all users of the theatre.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£72,600 10/06/2014
SOURCE - London's lost & forgotten rivers & the capitals pioneering Victorians
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tara Arts Group Ltd
£52,800 07/08/2013
Tara Arts: Digital Theatre Archive
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-58
  • AJAY CHHABRA Appointed: 2021
  • ANDREW GIVEN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Development Director
  • ANU GIRI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Business And Operations Bfi Festivals
  • HELEN JEFFREYS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Director
  • JAVID HAMID Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Partner
  • JOANNA SUNITA PANDYA (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Arts Organisation
  • LISA LOGAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor
  • NEHA JAIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banking / Theatre
  • SAGAR SHAH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Communications Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/03/1987, number: 295547
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/09/1986, number: 02059664
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
  • 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; AR23: 17 days late, AR18: 56 days late, AR14: 0 days late, AR05: 22 days late,
Main office

356 GARRATT LANE
LONDON
SW18 4ES

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF ASIAN CULTURAL, ASIAN ORIGIN OR ASIAN INFLUENCED PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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