Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

KIRKLEES THEATRE TRUST

To promote, maintain and improve by encouraging and promoting the art of drama, dance, improvisation, mime, film, singing and music and by providing advanced educational opportunities in the arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 benefits from the charity
  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • 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£1,880£2,096£-216£0£3,134£3,04817.54835
31/03/22£1,977£1,921£56£0£3,350£3,30520.66035
31/03/21£2,018£1,682£336£7£3,295£2,99621.4600
31/03/20*£1,578£1,711£-133£0£2,959£2,93420.66390
31/03/19£1,134£1,155£-21£0£3,114£3,081323285
31/03/18£1,958£2,051£-93£0£3,247£3,20118.7200
31/03/17£1,638£1,699£-61£90£3,340£3,28923.2590
31/03/16£1,712£1,844£-132£100£3,401£3,38822210
31/03/15£1,246£1,449£-203£4£3,557£3,49228.9200
31/03/14£967£1,154£-186£4£3,760£3,64137.9210
31/03/13£1,276£1,181£95£5£3,946£3,74538210
31/03/12£990£1,112£-121£5£3,851£3,85141.6200
31/03/11£959£1,120£-160£4£3,973£1,77919.1200
31/03/10£1,030£1,088£-58£4£4,133£1,80919.9190
31/03/09£847£1,033£-186£5£4,191£1,70919.9170
31/03/08£1,143£992£152£10£4,377£1,70020.6170
31/03/07£881£924£-43£20£4,225£1,71522.3190
31/03/06£1,304£1,328£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,283£1,133£150n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£1,453£1,369£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 29%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 17.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 44 years

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kirklees,
Who it helps
  • 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
DCMS£776,990
Garfield Weston Foundation£327,500
The Foyle Foundation£46,000
Sir George Martin Trust£9,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Lawrence Batley Theatre (Kirklees Theatre Trust)
£4,000 09/11/2023
Core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 19/09/2023
24
Core costs
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£21,000 07/02/2023
to cover the purchase of a new lighting desk for the main house
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 01/07/2022
Lawrence Batley Theatre Capital Project
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£124,957 25/03/2022
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£122,000 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Lawrence Batley Theatre (Kirklees Theatre Trust)
£2,500 08/03/2021
Capital costs for Music/Arts/Culture
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Lawrence Batley Theatre (Kirklees Theatre Trust)
£2,500 08/03/2021
Capital costs for Music/Arts/Culture
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£237,500 12/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 24/11/2020
towards the creation and production of new work over the coming 12 months including the development of a new interactive Adventure Box (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,472 25/09/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
DCMS - Lawrence Batley Theatre
£151,264 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 us is valued and given the chance to flourish and ....more
DCMS - KTT CRF 2020
£247,297 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - KTT CRF Second Round
£122,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Community Fund - AYP in Act:ion
£6,455 24/07/2019
12
The funding will provide weekly classes to build skill, confidence and self-esteem for young children who have been recently rehomed through adoption.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Lawrence Batley Theatre
£14,000 18/06/2018
In the Family Way
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Kirklees Theatre Trust
£16,500 17/05/2017
LBT @ LBT: Look Back in Time at the Lawrence Batley Theatre
National Lottery Community Fund - Lawrence Batley Theatre
£183,233 13/12/2012
36
This new project aims to raise aspirations of young people living in three socially and economically deprived areas of Kirklees - Dewsbury West, Crosland Moor and Ashbrow. Participants will develop confidence, communication and team-working skills ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Cloth, Culture & Communities
£55,197 28/06/2011
12
The project will provide a festival of live performance, creative, educational and community activities commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Luddite revolution, when textile artisans protested against the industrial revolution. The project ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-67
  • CLLR KAREN LOUISE ALLISON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Councillor
  • CAROL COOPER-SMITH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Interim Director
  • CHARLOTTE PEEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Lawyer
  • GEMMA ADAMS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Fundraising Consultant
  • GILLIAN CAMPBELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: National Head Of Nursing
  • HEATHER MCGEE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Risk And Compliance Officer
  • LAURA MALLOWS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director
  • MOHAMMED IFTIKAR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Facilities Manager
  • NICK WILSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Printmaker
  • REBECCA FRIEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo
  • REBECCA RUTH ATKINSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/11/1980, number: 510693
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/06/1980, number: 01504033
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 60 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE
QUEEN STREET
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 2SP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, CINEMA, MIME IMPROVISATION, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AN ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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