Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 2

BIG TELLY THEATRE COMPANY

The Charity is established for the advancement of education and the promotion of the arts for the benefit of public primarily in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere hereinafter called 'the area of benefit' by: (i) Experimenting with various and original styles of performance, always with an emphasis on the physical and energetic in order to produce exciting interpretations of established texts. (ii) Researching, writing, directing and performing new plays that are sensitive to the local environment and important to the local community. (iii) Promoting public engagement in the arts including establishing a multi-artform hub and educational and outreach programmes such as workshops designed for school children and older people to assist in the development of communication skills and social inclusion. (iv) Writing, directing, performing and teaching theatrical pieces that are popular and relevant to the lives of people in the area of benefit.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Year end	31/03/18	31/03/19	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23	31/03/24
Income	£341,291	£314,681	£300,228	£382,626	£366,573	£332,123	£272,477
Spending	£307,645	£300,081	£279,371	£363,598	£360,678	£349,004	£216,821
Surplus/deficit	£33,646	£14,600	£20,857	£19,028	£5,895	-£16,881	£55,656

Established: 9 years

www.big-telly.com

info@big-telly.com

Listed activities

The advancement of education, The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Arts, Education/training, Volunteer development

Where it operates

Northern Ireland

Who it helps

Children (5-13 year olds), General public, Older people, Specific areas of deprivation, Youth (14-25 year olds)

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Esmee Fairbairn	£39,450
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	17/08/2021	Department Story
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	08/07/2021	towards ‘Department Story’, a site specific theatre production which tours to empty Department Stores and which offers both a physical (on site) digital (remote) experience to audiences
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Big Telly Theatre Company
£39,450	23/06/2021	Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	15/07/2019	Macbeth - Game of Phones
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - CREATIVE SHOPS SATELLITE PROGRAMME: WINDOWS
£7,500	11/06/2019	CREATIVE SHOPS SATELLITE PROGRAMME: WINDOWS
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	24/01/2018	Operation Elsewhere

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 25/09/2015, number: NIC102334

Main office

C/O Flowerfield Arts Centre, 185 Coleraine Road, Portstewart, BT55 7HU

Data Sources

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