Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 10
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

BATH FESTIVALS

Promotion of the arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates much of its income. Its latest spending amounts to only -294.1% of total funds
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £358,517 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets

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
31/12/22*£931£946£-15£37£-322£-359-4.5112,000
31/12/21£1,094£1,030£64£39£-307£-352-4.112151
31/12/20£589£525£64£47£-370£-429-9.81250
31/12/19£1,256£1,457£-202£37£-436£-460-3.810250
31/12/18?*£1,458£1,694£-236£38£2£-19-0.111250
31/03/17£1,062£1,065£-3£59£107£660.7230
31/03/16£1,204£1,204£0£9£110£690.7130
31/03/15*£1,031£1,055£-24£101£110£871170
31/03/14£1,281£1,223£58£118£133£540.5170
31/03/13£1,309£1,281£28£90£75£510.5140
31/03/12£1,204£1,262£-58£90£47£140.1140
31/03/11£1,303£1,319£-15£9£105£820.7140
31/03/10£1,226£1,257£-31£8£120£1201.1140
31/03/09£1,154£1,197£-42£9£152£1521.5140
31/03/08£1,138£1,019£119£9£194£1401.7120
31/03/07£1,259£1,265£-6£7£75£750.7150
31/03/06*£1,256£1,211£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£1,255£1,164£91n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£1,060£1,057£3n/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: 371%
Liabilities/Income: 47%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 112%
Reserves/Spending: -4.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 35 years

www.bathfestivals.org.uk

info@bathfestivals.org.uk

01225 614180

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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
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£100,000 10/11/2021
This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
Youth Music - Routes through Music
£83,143 24/04/2020
Routes through Music
DCMS - Recovery for 2021
£100,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Bath Festivals 2021
£50,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Bath Festivals
£34,375 27/03/2018
36
Young Producer/Young Artist Residency - Covid-19 flexibility agreed

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-70
  • AMANDA HARPER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • CHRISTOPER DAVID ROGERS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • DENISE COUGHLAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • RICHARD CLAVELL STANLEY HALL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • RUTH ESME JEFFERSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Wessex Water Services Limited
  • VICTORIA ELAINE SMITH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/06/1989, number: 801617
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/11/1988, number: 02319269
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 99 days late, AR18: 27 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 2 days late,
Main office

1a Forum Buildings
St James Parade
Bath
BA1 1UG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCING, MIME, PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND THE GRAPHIC ARTS AND LITERATURE AND POETRY, AND TO EXTEND AND INCREASE THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE AVON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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