Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

HELIX ARTS LIMITED 

To educate the general public in the arts, especially by enabling members of the public to work alongside artists producing works of high artistic class, and by the fostering and promotion of the participation in the arts within the North East region to address issues of social exclusion.
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 a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age 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: 35 years

www.helixarts.com

info@helixarts.com

01912414931

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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£263£279£-16n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£387£318£69n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/21£265£183£82n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/03/20£314£323£-9n/an/an/an/an/a62
31/03/19£315£330£-15n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18£353£324£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£305£299£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£348£326£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£329£329£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£237£238£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£223£227£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£359£353£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£501£530£-29£5£54£340.870
31/03/10£416£462£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£431£392£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£473£475£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£417£447£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£211£249£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£211£249£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£149£153£-4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland,

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£276,533
Youth Music£100,000
Co-Op Foundation£18,700
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£15,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£10,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£8,450
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Helix Arts
£10,000 29/07/2021
Core costs to offer community arts projects across North East
Youth Music - Real Voice
£100,000 27/05/2021
Real Voice
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - running costs to deliver ‘You: Your Art.’ (YYA): a micro ‘arts on prescription’ project, providing 12 creative workshops online for people experiencing mental health problems and social isolation in North Tyneside
£5,000 11/03/2021
running costs to deliver ‘You: Your Art.’ (YYA): a micro ‘arts on prescription’ project, providing 12 creative workshops online for people experiencing mental health problems and social ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Helix Arts STC Expand application
£10,000 18/01/2021
Working with artists and volunteers to bring creative art workshops into the community.
DCMS - ACE Loneliness Fund
£28,928 18/01/2021
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
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - a creative peer education programme with Rape Crisis UK for and with young people from North Tyneside and Northumberland focused on the vulnerabilities and exclusion of specific young people and challenges faced with domestic abuse at home during lockdown
£10,000 22/10/2020
a creative peer education programme with Rape Crisis UK for and with young people from North Tyneside and Northumberland focused on the vulnerabilities and exclusion of specific young people and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Helix Arts Limited
£8,450 24/07/2020
Grant to Helix Arts Limited meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
DCMS - Helix Arts NPO Application
£110,335 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 - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928 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
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£8,700 03/10/2019
Will work with local people and artists to run creative workshops and co-produce consultancy events, exploring how they can make better use of local spaces to meet cultural, health and well-being ....more
DCMS - Helix Arts NPO Application
£108,342 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
County Durham Community Foundation - Hidden Treasures
£10,000 25/01/2019
To support the Hidden Treasures project.
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing events and improvements connected to local footpaths
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing events and improvements connected to local footpaths
Youth Music - We got the Beat (WgtB)
£30,000 21/11/2018
We got the Beat (WgtB)
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 18/10/2018
Helix Arts
National Lottery Community Fund - Make it Happen
£106,652 16/08/2018
36
The group will train local people to become community volunteers, which will increase their confidence and skills, and enable them to carry out creative projects in their own communities, with the ....more
DCMS - Helix Arts NPO Application
£108,342 01/04/2018
Helix Arts NPO Application
DCMS - Helix Arts NPO Application
£27,086 01/04/2018
To support Helix Arts NPO Application
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Helix Arts Limited
£15,000 21/02/2018
24
To design, pilot and evaluate a project, which aims to embed volunteers within the organisation.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Running costs of 'Falling on your Feet', a dance for health programme Year 2
£20,300 01/04/2017
Running costs of 'Falling on your Feet', a dance for health programme Year 2
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Support for core costs Year 3
£35,000 01/04/2017
Support for core costs Year 3
Dunhill Medical Trust - Falling on your Feet': Dance Health Programme
£67,817 03/03/2017
36
Falling on your feet is a dance for health programme for older people who are living independently to improve balance, strength and flexibility
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Helix Arts
£60,800 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of 'Falling on your Feet', a dance for health programme for older people in Tyneside, Gateshead and Northumberland
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Running costs of 'Falling on your Feet', a dance for health programme Year 1
£19,800 08/12/2016
Towards Running costs of 'Falling on your Feet', a dance for health programme Year 1
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Digital Dance Challenge
£18,979 01/04/2016
Towards Digital Dance Challenge
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Support for core costs Year 2
£35,000 01/04/2016
Towards Support for core costs Year 2
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Support for core costs Year 1
£35,000 01/04/2015
Support for core costs Year 1
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Helix Arts (North East)
£49,150 27/06/2014
To develop a new arts-based resource package and training programme to sell to youth offending teams, schools, probation and mental health services.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Helix Arts
£103,275 28/08/2013
Towards costs associated with the development of a new programme of work to train and empower community organisations to design and run their own high quality arts activity.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Helix Arts (North East)
£45,000 16/07/2013
Towards core funding to underpin a programme for young people at risk of, and those with, substance misuse problems living in the North East.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Helix Arts Limited
£20,000 31/05/2013
This charity brings the arts out to a broad range of people from those that are terminally ill to young offenders using the arts as a tool to engage with those that are potentially socially isolated ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 21-77
  • ALISON SHAW (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Teacher
  • CHLOE LAWRENCE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Programmes Manager (Theatre)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/12/1988, number: 700956
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/1987, number: 02114849
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints 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; AR05: 11 days late,
Main office

2nd Floor
51 Bedford Street
North Shields
Tyne and Wear
NE29 0AT

Objectives

TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ARTS ESPECIALLY BY ENABLING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO WORK ALONGSIDE ARTISTS PRODUCING WORKS OF HIGH ARTISTIC CLASS,AND BY FOSTERING AND PROMOTION OF THE PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS (INCLUDING BY WAY OF EXAMPLE ONLY AND NOT OF LIMITATION THE ARTS OF DRAMA,MIME,DANCE,SINGING,MUSIC,POETRY,LITERATURE,PHOTOGRAPHY,FILM AND VISUAL ARTS)AND AN AWARENESS,KNOWLEDGE,UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AMONG PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE OF THE NORTHERN AREA.

Defined Area of Benefit:

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Data Sources

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