Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

ARIEL TRUST LIMITED 

Providing training and educational resources for young people and people from disadvantaged groups.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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 and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 36 years

www.arieltrust.com

admin@arieltrust.com

01517078211

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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£120£181£-62n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£258£172£87n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£171£154£17n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£172£139£34n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£104£107£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£220£240£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£296£255£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£231£236£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£183£182£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£206£179£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£147£155£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£220£237£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£317£317£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£343£300£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£258£315£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£272£316£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£227£213£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£225£207£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£233£193£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£154£151£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£74,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Esmee Fairbairn£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Capacity-building in teachers: Using forum theatre to build resistance skills
£3,500 18/01/2023
Ariel Trust is an educational charity developing best practice in safeguarding education through communication and resistance skills via forum theatre techniques. This grant supports Ariel Trust to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 19/11/2021
Sharing an evidence based approach to violence prevention
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Capacity-building in teachers: Using forum theatre to build resistance skills
£71,000 04/10/2021
21
Ariel Trust is an educational charity developing best practice in safeguarding education through communication and resistance skills via forum theatre techniques. This grant supports Ariel Trust to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ariel Trust
£20,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Building resilience in a digital world
£208,800 26/02/2019
47
The project aims to teach young people new skills and build their confidence through digital media and other creative skills. Funding will enable the project to expand and engage with more young ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ariel Trust
£150,000 10/04/2018
48
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the national roll-out of a grooming prevention programme for disadvantaged children and young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Co-creating a skills-based resource to protect young people from explo
£8,500 13/12/2017
12
The trust will involve young people identified by Merseyside Police as being at risk of exploitation. Through running a creative media project, young people will improve their self-esteem and produce ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ariel Trust
£305,214 14/11/2014
35
Not Available
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ariel Trust
£96,000 27/02/2013
Towards core costs of an organisation that uses multimedia to engage disadvantaged communities and improve the life chances of beneficiaries.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-58
  • KEIR ASHTON Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Solicitor/Lawyer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/01/1988, number: 519688
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/1987, number: 02113575
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 12 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

The Florence Institute
377 Mill Street
LIVERPOOL
L8 4RF

Objectives

4 The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following:(i) to promote for the benefit of the public the furtherance of education, training, knowledge and understanding of all members of the public (with emphasis on the members of the public who are young, disadvantaged or facing the risk of social exclusion) through and in all aspects of sound, television and digital media; and(ii) To advance in life and help young people through providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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