Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

GREATER MANCHESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED 

The objects of the Charity are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education, particularly by the encouragement of the arts. This includes the arts of cinema, photography, painting and sculpture and including all other arts of a visual nature provided that all the objects of the Company shall be of a charitable nature.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 40 years

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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£7,351£7,533£-182£540£1,882£1,4612.315396
31/03/22£6,810£6,665£145£396£2,064£1,7833.2162104
31/03/21£6,050£4,681£1,369£300£1,918£1,3943.618724
31/03/20£6,299£6,616£-317£452£529£4540.8210285
31/03/19£6,429£6,517£-88£399£748£5581116209
31/03/18£6,362£6,543£-181£365£835£5120.91140
31/03/17£6,507£6,483£24£168£1,016£6281.21200
31/03/16£6,520£6,942£-422£249£991£4190.71120
31/03/15£5,564£5,844£-279£193£1,310£5261.1730
31/03/14£4,551£4,488£63£192£1,599£4691.3730
31/03/13*£4,738£4,611£127£190£1,536£3811740
31/03/12£2,732£2,927£-196£200£1,408£3951.6510
31/03/11£3,186£2,424£762£202£1,604£3391.7510
31/03/10£3,186£2,424£762£204£1,475£2701.3560
31/03/09£2,440£2,543£-102£197£713£2551.2580
31/03/08*£2,575£2,724£-149£205£816£4411.9560
31/03/07*£2,276£2,480£-203£197£1,015£5622.7590
31/03/06£2,749£2,822£-73£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£2,750£2,472£278£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£2,019£2,140£-121£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 38%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 2.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 153 employees
  • 96 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£2,367,387
Manchester City Council£422,798
Garfield Weston Foundation£396,610
Esmee Fairbairn£320,000
The Foyle Foundation£130,000
Wolfson Foundation£125,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to GREATER MANCHESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED
£250,000 12/12/2023
Towards project costs to empower communties in Moss Side, Hulme, and Gorton to have a greater say in how arts and creativity in Manchester is developed using a co-created approach
Brian Mercer Trust - Grant to Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd
£5,000 19/07/2023
Part funding the Manchester Open art exhibition 2024 at Home, Manchester
Backstage Trust - Project grant
£10,000 23/03/2023
Contribution towards new finance system
DCMS - Investment funds
£15,000 31/01/2023
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 ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to HOME (Greater Manchester Arts Centre)
£125,000 07/12/2022
Fit out of new artist development centre (‘HOME Arches’)
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£100,000 29/11/2022
towards creation of a new artist development centre in three Grade-II listed railway arches adjacent to HOME’s main building
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£125,000 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
£180,000 27/10/2021
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
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 28/04/2021
towards HOME Away, a temporary arts festival which will create more jobs for freelance artists and provide accessibly-priced tickets to diversify audiences (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to HOME Manchester
£55,000 07/04/2021
Towards project costs for an ambitious outdoor arts festival which will create jobs for artists and freelancers and provide a vital, accessible cultural offering to Manchester audiences.
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£349,110 12/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£47,500 17/07/2020
HOME Soon - Reopening in September 2020
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd.
£15,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
£1,321,387 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
DCMS - HOME - Culture Recovery Fund application
£351,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - GMAC - CRF Round 2
£375,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Manchester City Council - Grant to HOME
£105,700 26/03/2020
Greater Manchester Arts Contract
Manchester City Council - Grant to HOME
£105,700 26/03/2020
Greater Manchester Arts Contract
Manchester City Council - Grant to HOME
£105,700 26/03/2020
Greater Manchester Arts Contract
Manchester City Council - Grant to HOME
£105,700 06/03/2020
Greater Manchester Arts Centre Grant 20/21
DCMS - ALB - BFI - Education
£15,300 01/04/2019
hands-on filmmaking courses for 16-19 year olds, which aim to develop their knowledge and skills required to be part of the future of the UK film industry
National Lottery Community Fund - Accessible Music Club for Young People
£3,342 27/09/2018
12
The centre will organise a monthly music workshop for young adults with learning disabilities and a quarterly night club for people with learning disabilities to enjoy with their family and friends - ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£105,000 25/01/2018
36
Towards the costs of expanding the national reach of their small-scale performing arts commissions through touring and live-streaming
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd.
£90,000 26/07/2017
36
Towards the costs of a talent development programme for emerging artists from the North-West, working in film, theatre, visual arts and interdisciplinary work.
Nesta - ACE0314
£300,000 30/11/2011
Digital R&D Fund programme grant to Cornerhouse Grant Ref ACE0314
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-66
  • ROSS MACKENZIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Co-Director Hospitality/Licensed Retail
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/02/1984, number: 514719
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/11/1982, number: 01681278
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR13: 1 days late, AR08: 13 days late, AR07: 22 days late, AR04: 24 days late,
Main office

Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd
2 Tony Wilson Place
Manchester
M15 4FN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF CINEMA, DRAMA, DANCE, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND IN PARTICULAR ALL OTHER ARTS OF A VISUAL NATURE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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