Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 13

WORD UP NORTH LIMITED

Provision of annual literature festival and associated developments and year round projects involving creative writing, reading and live literature.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 51 years

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

admin@wordupnorth.org.uk

01943 601210

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£329	£335	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	67
31/03/22		£295	£283	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	111
31/03/21		£228	£227	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	111
31/03/20		£395	£363	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	111
31/03/19		£451	£458	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	112
31/03/18		£435	£419	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£400	£410	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£426	£453	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£434	£443	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£425	£419	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£450	£448	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£390	£385	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£328	£327	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£283	£270	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£223	£222	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£204	£189	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£176	£175	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£169	£169	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£132	£133	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£97	£90	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Bradford City, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City, North Yorkshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
67 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Keighley Young Writers Group
£10,000	20/11/2023	Grant to Word Up North Limited
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£27,000	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 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
DCMS - National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
£139,953	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 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 us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
DCMS - Ilkley Literature Festival
£27,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
£137,424	01/04/2019	£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
DCMS - National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
£137,424	01/04/2018	National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
DCMS - National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
£34,356	01/04/2018	To support National Portfolio Application 2018-2022
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Animated Poetry with Pupils New to English
£26,000	26/02/2018 10	Ilkley Literature Festival is the north of England’s largest literary festival and runs a year-round programme with community groups, families and young people. This project will explore how ....more Ilkley Literature Festival is the north of England’s largest literary festival and runs a year-round programme with community groups, families and young people. This project will explore how combining creative-writing techniques, visual arts and digital technology in four secondary schools around Leeds and Bradford can deepen and enhance engagement in and expression through creative writing for newly-arrived young people who are new to the English language.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ilkley Literature Festival
£40,000	17/11/2010 24	Towards Project costs Towards the involvement of rural and urban young writers' groups and other youth art forms in the Stanza Stones project.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 53-74

CATHY BAXANDALL Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Solicitor, Co Sec, Legal Advis

ELLEN TERESA THORPE Appointed: 1996, Occupation: Administrator

GEORGINA ALICE FRIEDER Appointed: 2023

JOHN PETER DIGNUM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

KITTY WRIGHT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Executive Director, Other trusteeship: FANZA (FOUNDATION FOR AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ARTS),

PROF FRANCIS JAMES FINLAY (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: University Professor (Emeritus), Other trusteeships: SKIPTON MUSIC, LEEDS CULTURE TRUST, NATIONAL POETRY CENTRE,

PROFESSOR GREGORY RADICK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Academic

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1973, number: 501801
Registered at Companies House on 12/07/1972, number: 01061343

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
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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; AR16: 84 days late, AR09: 42 days late, AR08: 28 days late, AR07: 19 days late, AR06: 23 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

Second Floor Offices, Fairfax House
38 The Grove
Ilkley
LS29 9EE

Objectives

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC TASTE AND KNOWLEDGE AND THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS AMONGST THE GENERAL PUBLIC

Defined Area of Benefit:

ILKLEY AND WHARFEDALE

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