Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

RENT-A-ROLE DRAMA SERVICE 

i. To promote the education of young people under the age of twenty-five through the medium of dramaii. To relieve those persons with special needs through the medium of dramaiii. To promote the education of young people in the art and science of theatre and dramaiv. To work with disadvantaged individuals and communities using theatre as a tool for social change
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
Established: 35 years

www.barbicantheatre.co.uk

info@barbicantheatre.co.uk

01752242014

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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
31/03/22£675£585£90£54£426£3396.980
31/03/21£413£470£-57n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20*£839£789£49£54£393£2984.5743
31/03/19£803£782£22£49£344£2483.8710
31/03/18*£674£689£-15£49£322£2354.1993
31/03/17£627£624£3£52£337£2665.190
31/03/16*£550£548£3£46£335£2665.890
31/03/15£466£465£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£490£455£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£389£355£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£333£344£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£454£423£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£457£425£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£435£441£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£423£444£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£370£373£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£444£496£-52£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£486£517£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£491£459£32£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 6.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth City, Somerset, Torbay,

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£366,409
Esmee Fairbairn£271,750
Garfield Weston Foundation£135,550
Youth Music£29,880
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation£8,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rent-A-Role Drama Service
£59,750 04/10/2023
Towards project costs to explore the concept of rivers as citizens, working to unite communities with the river on equal terms
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rent-A-Role Drama Service
£16,000 06/03/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rent-A-Role Drama Service
£160,000 19/10/2022
Towards project costs for a programme of work that builds Plymouth communities’ own creative voices, gives them a platform and redistributes ownership in cultural programming
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
£8,250 20/05/2022
Travel support for five members of Future Undokai and the Japanese Undokai Foundation who will spend two weeks in Plymouth creating a three-day Future Undokai event centred on large-scale interactive ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
£36,000 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£135,550 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Youth Music - ReBels Music
£29,880 29/10/2020
ReBels Music
DCMS - NPO2018-2022
£198,710 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 - Barbican Theatre Covid-19 Recovery Plan
£167,699 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
£104,000 16/05/2018
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Towards the salary of a creative producer supporting the work of local and emerging artists.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Barbican Theatre
£19,600 14/01/2015
A Blast to the Past.... and Back Again
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
£30,000 24/11/2014
Towards an artistic development programme for emerging artists in Plymouth and the wider South West.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-78
  • GINA SMALL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Project Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/06/1989, number: 801689
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/12/1988, number: 02323701
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR20: 53 days late, AR18: 152 days late, AR16: 11 days late, AR10: 131 days late, AR06: 43 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

BARBICAN THEATRE
CASTLE STREET
PLYMOUTH
PL1 2NJ

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA.(B) TO RELIEVE THOSE PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA.(C) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF THE THEATRE AND DRAMA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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