Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

PRIME THEATRE 

Prime Theatre (formally known as Sixth Sense Theatre Company) entertains, educates and empowers young people (0-25yrs) through professional theatre and the creative activities associated with this. Our professional productions tour across the South West and to the rest of the UK and are complemented by an accredited programme of youth theatre, schools and community workshops and events.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • 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
Established: 36 years

www.primetheatre.co.uk

info@primetheatre.co.uk

01793614846

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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£422£327£94n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/22£377£269£108n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/21£279£221£58n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/20£333£259£74n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£261£327£-66n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/18£331£301£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£242£234£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£246£226£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£173£181£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£217£217£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£199£189£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£164£138£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£226£232£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£249£219£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£237£241£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£198£204£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£198£194£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£203£191£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£185£175£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£160£155£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Swindon, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 9 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£138,425
The Blagrave Trust£82,000
BBC Children in Need£75,404
Wiltshire Community Foundation£58,648
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Youth Leadership Fund
£82,000 30/11/2023
Prime Theatre - TLF Advisers' Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Prime Theatre
£44,713 28/08/2023
This project will support learning disabled children and young people through youth theatre sessions. The project will improve confidence, improve communication skills and offer new opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Mental Health Support Service
£9,600 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver one-to-one and group mental health support to vulnerable young people. The project aims to support young people to access community arts events and qualifications ....more
DCMS - Capital Investment Programme
£105,500 02/03/2022
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
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Swindon STEAM Store (SSS)
£17,500 09/02/2022
Prime Theatre Company (established 1986) is based at the Wyvern in Swindon and provides educational productions, workshops and a youth theatre for young people. Funding is towards setting up a store ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Prime Theatre Company
£15,000 25/11/2021
Prime Theatre Company (established 1986) is based at the Wyvern in Swindon and provides educational productions, workshops and a youth theatre for young people. Funding is towards recruitment, ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,000 19/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 22/07/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Prime Theatre
£2,925 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund Arts Awards for disabled children and young people isolated at home due to Covid-19. Young people will feel less isolated.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,925 29/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Prime Ministers
£4,777 29/04/2020
Prime Theatre Company (established 1986) is based at the Wyvern in Swindon and provides educational productions, workshops and a youth theatre for young people. Funding is towards recruitment, ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Everyone's An Engineer
£8,786 13/02/2020
Based in Swindon, Prime Theatre provides quality drama opportunities for, with and by young people in Swindon, Wiltshire and beyond. The grant will meet the costs of “Everyone’s an Engineer”, a ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Prime Theatre
£27,766 19/11/2019
36
This project will support learning disabled children and young people through the delivery of youth theatre sessions. The project will raise aspirations, increase confidence and decrease emotional ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Swindon County Lines Film & Learning Resource
£3,000 25/09/2019
Prime Theatre Company (established 1986) provides educational productions, workshops and a youth theatre for young people in the Swindon area. Funding is towards the production of an educational film ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Deaf Community Arts Project
£9,585 15/05/2019
Prime Theatre Company (established 1986) provides educational productions, school & community workshops and a youth theatre for young people in the Swindon area. Funding will contribute to the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusive Arts for Deaf Young People
£10,000 05/04/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a range of art based activities for children and young adults from deaf and hearing communities. The project aims to promote wellbeing, confidence and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing children's vocabulary through drama and performance poetry
£145,000 13/03/2019
24
Prime Theatre, a professional children and young people’s theatre company working in Swindon and Wiltshire, and an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, will work in partnership with seven ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Prime Theatre
£10,000 13/03/2019
Swindon Peace Day Riots
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Prime Theatre
£27,200 09/05/2018
This is Our Town
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Prime Theatre
£2,685 29/11/2017
We want to buy equipment so that more Deaf and Special Needs children can join our activities and feel included and valued by the community.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards skills and training workshops for young carers
£1,000 23/03/2017
Towards skills and training workshops for young carers, young offenders, young refugees and care leavers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Celebrate Childhood
£10,000 05/12/2016
12
This project will celebrate the diversity of Swindon's communities, culture and history with a weekend of activity and entertainment in a range of public venues. This will bring people of different ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Prime Theatre Company
£5,000 13/11/2015
12
Prime Theatre produce professional work for children and young adults aged 0-25 years by running regular cross-curricular activities in primary and secondary schools throughout the region and aim to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 21-82
  • EMMA CARTER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • JADE BENNETT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/02/1988, number: 298436
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/09/1987, number: 02163378
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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 18 days late, AR08: 14 days late,
Main office

WYVERN THEATRE
THEATRE SQUARE
SWINDON
SN1 1QN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY BY THE FORMULATION, PREPARATION, ESTABLISHMENT AND PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS, FESTIVALS AND PRODUCTIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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