Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 13

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +13

Overall GiG Score: 24

THE STOVE NETWORK LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Established: 10 years
(12 years as a company)

www.thestove.org

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/03/18	31/03/19	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23
Charitable activities	£364,594	£367,944	£318,593	£348,621		£712,100
Donations & Legacies	£12,991	£11,162	£512	£716		£2,991
Other Income			£2,686	£68,818
Investment Income	£57	£352	£512	£255		£239
Total income	£422,880	£605,819	£499,247	£494,771	£902,831	£945,180
Charitable activities spending	£359,665	£506,983	£438,462	£370,099		£725,128
Fundraising costs		18%	24%	15%	12%	17%
Other spending
Total spending	£359,665	£617,645	£557,950	£434,757	£796,054	£888,480
Surplus/deficit	£63,215	-£11,826	-£58,703	£60,014	£106,777	£56,700

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Dumfries And Galloway

This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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

Esmee Fairbairn	£177,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£150,000
Scottish Government	£137,486
Architectural Heritage Fund	£9,780

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Stove Network
£177,000	06/09/2023	Towards project costs to establish What We Do Now as a network for Dumfries and Galloway and a wider resource for communities, supporting them to lead change from within their places through creative ....more Towards project costs to establish What We Do Now as a network for Dumfries and Galloway and a wider resource for communities, supporting them to lead change from within their places through creative collaboration.
National Lottery Community Fund - Grow Your Own Culture
£150,000	28/11/2022	This group will continue to use creativity as a tool for community engagement skills development and improving wellbeing by delivering a programme of activity led by the community to meet their needs ....more This group will continue to use creativity as a tool for community engagement skills development and improving wellbeing by delivering a programme of activity led by the community to meet their needs and aspirations. Based in Dumfries the activities will involve 970 people and 147 volunteers over three years.
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to The Stove Network Limited
£9,780	27/06/2022	The Stove
Foundation Scotland - 100 High Street Accessibility Improvements
£7,099	16/05/2022	To complete a series of physical improvements to the community café and community venue space.
Scottish Government - The Stove Network Limited
£65,256	22/09/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - The Stove Network Limited
£17,260	04/03/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Stove Network
£2,000	10/06/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Stove Network
£52,970	04/05/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Robertson Trust - Activity Programme
£16,000	21/11/2018	Activity Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - The Stove Network Limited
£129,519	23/05/2018 48	This group will use the arts and creativity as tools to involve the local community in shaping the future of the town of Dumfries. Activities will include a mixture of open public events including ....more This group will use the arts and creativity as tools to involve the local community in shaping the future of the town of Dumfries. Activities will include a mixture of open public events including the Nithraid River festival, community-programmed cinema, consultation events, skills training in creative industries and schools and college outreach based activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Futures Lincluden and Lochside
£269,265	07/09/2016 48	The Creative Futures project will benefit 160 volunteers from Lochside and Lincluden and 6,400 individuals, some from outside the community, over a four year period. The aim of the project is to ....more The Creative Futures project will benefit 160 volunteers from Lochside and Lincluden and 6,400 individuals, some from outside the community, over a four year period. The aim of the project is to build confidence and self-esteem in the participants. This will enable local people to develop skills to have a bigger voice within their local communities and to influence decision which affect them.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Stove Network Ltd
£39,600	21/03/2016	Cultural Wayfinding - Our Norwegian Story
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Research towards an MA Module in Participative Practice/Environmental Art
£3,500	17/06/2015	ArtWorks funding has been awarded to The Stove Network to undertake initial research towards developing an MA module in Environmental and Participative Practice. The Stove Network will work with an ....more ArtWorks funding has been awarded to The Stove Network to undertake initial research towards developing an MA module in Environmental and Participative Practice. The Stove Network will work with an existing informal network of other place-based arts projects in Scotland and Wales as part of their research. As well as informing the longer term development of a MA module, they plan, though their engagement with other rural place based partners, to strengthen this informal grouping and share their research at the end of the process. This research will be jointly run with the University of West Scotland as their academic partner (pending match funding from the Innovation Voucher Scheme). This funding will enable The Stove Network the research the feasibility of developing a formal training offer as part of their longer term business plan. The Stove Network is an artist led collective based in a disused three story former shop in the town centre of Dumfries with a membership of circa 200 people ranging from international artists to emerging artists and students. Their core mission is about breathing new life into the town using art and creativity and actively involving local people. They are particularly interested in exploring how they can create a sustainable business model for both the building and the wider network. Part of this is exploring the feasibility of setting up an MA module that would be run through the Stove Network and provide academic institutions a residential course for students to study environmental and socially engaged practice. This would offer employment for their network members, bring new artists into the area to cross fertilize with the existing artist community and potentially offer a sustainable business model in the longer term.

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How is it governed?

Directors (9)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 26-72

BARNACLE-BEST, Jodie
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Knitwear Studio Assistant

COMERFORD, Michael Brendan
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Engineer

FITZPATRICK, Leslie Anthony
Appointed: 2017
Occupation: Consultant

GORDZIEJKO, Teresa Margaret Jane
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Theatre Producer

JOHNSTON, Andrew
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Retired

JUDGE, Erica Jennifer
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Charity Manager

MOLLOY, Heather Kate
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Programme Lead

OLIPHANT, Linny Marie
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Brand Manager

SMITH, Lynsey Anne
Appointed: 2021
Occupation: International Programme Manager

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 23/06/2014, number: SC044947
Registered at Companies House on 21/11/2011, number: SC411667

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 21 days late,

Main office

100 High Street, Dumfries, DG1 2BJ

Objectives

The company's objects are: (a) To promote the arts, including drama, dance, music, literature, poetry, painting, film-making, photography and sculpture and other art forms and areas of artistic endeavour, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of that aim) with a view to the involvement of local communities within Dumfries and Galloway and surrounding regions. (b) To collaborate and form partnerships with individuals or organisations to benefit the wider community through the arts. (c) To support community initiatives within Dumfries and Galloway and surrounding areas using the arts. (d) To use the arts to promote the benefits of social welfare of the inhabitants within Dumfries and Galloway and surrounding regions, without distinction with regard to age, disability, sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisation and local people.

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