Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Very static board: -5
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

EAST NEUK FESTIVAL 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be very static
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
Charitable activities £65,129 £56,208 £18,840 £56,169 £64,618
Donations & Legacies £235,441 £275,596 £254,324 £205,882
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £317,134 £300,886 £332,894 £138,250 £273,164 £366,607 £270,500
Charitable activities spending £283,229 £296,266 £247,958 £345,883 £238,953
Fundraising costs 11% 10% 8% 6% 8%
Other spending
Total spending £311,364 £316,966 £328,629 £119,245 £268,931 £368,670 £259,857
Surplus/deficit £5,770 -£16,080 £4,265 £19,005 £4,233 -£2,063 £10,643
Established: 20 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Esmee Fairbairn£5,000
Fenton Arts Trust£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to East Neuk Festival
£5,000 23/01/2023
TASK fund donation towards general funds
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 08/02/2022
towards the creation of a large-scale community participation film and music performance, Thunderplump, part of the 2022 festival
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to East Neuk Festival
£3,000 05/11/2020
BAND IN A VAN (BIAV) - sending world-class classical, jazz and folk out of the halls into the community, raising morale as we face Covid.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 04/02/2020
towards ongoing delivery during the year end December 2020 of the Retreat programme
Foundation Scotland - Festival 2018
£2,500 12/01/2018
Towards the cost of the 2018 East Neuk Festival
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to East Neuk Festival
£10,000 25/04/2016
Washed Away: a reflection on the fragility and importance of memories of World War I

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 45-85
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 29/11/2004, number: SC036207
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/12/2011, number: SC413581
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

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Objectives

to advance the arts and culture, and to promote and advance the education of the public in the study and practice of the arts, in particular by commissioning, presenting, promoting, organising, providing, managing and producing concerts, recitals, musical pieces, performances, events, education programmes and recordings in the East Neuk of Scotland, for the public benefit, within a programming policy that disregards exclusivity of style, genre and historical precedent and actively encourages collaboration with other performing arts platforms: theatre, dance, performance art, film, new and other media art-forms. and (b) to promote such similar charitable put poses, objects or institutions and in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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