Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +12

    ARTICULATE CULTURAL TRUST 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    Established: 7 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Charitable activities £53,314 £66,054 £169,925
    Donations & Legacies £271,006 £315,145
    Other Income
    Investment Income
    Total income £119,292 £137,411 £144,347 £324,320 £381,199 £458,492
    Charitable activities spending £202,888 £268,540 £459,132
    Fundraising costs
    Other spending £88,025 £44,588
    Total spending £23,104 £76,194 £157,405 £290,913 £313,128 £459,132
    Surplus/deficit £96,188 £61,217 -£13,058 £33,407 £68,071 -£640
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • One or a few bases or facilities serving people who come from a broad area, main operating location: Glasgow City

    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£173,400
    The Rayne Foundation£58,500
    William Grant Foundation£48,960
    National Lottery Community Fund£44,660
    Foundation Scotland£37,880
    Scottish Government£25,630
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£13,800
    Women's Fund for Scotland£8,200
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Foundation Scotland - IT equipment
    £1,454 13/12/2023
    Top up payment for your IT equipment for young people.
    Foundation Scotland - Addressing Digital Disadvantage - care Experienced Young Scots
    £2,046 07/12/2023
    Towards IT equipment to help combat digital exclusion faced by care experienced young people.
    Foundation Scotland - Creative Assistant Programme (CAP)
    £5,000 01/11/2023
    Towards the 2023/24 Creative Assistant Programme giving care experienced young people paid work experience and personal development opportunities.
    Foundation Scotland - Belter
    £5,000 26/04/2023
    To contribute towards the costs of a new singing group for 8-12 care experienced young people who want to sing but have had no previous opportunity to do so formally, so improving both their mental ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - UKPCOL -Little Fires Everywhere – and Putting Them Out!
    £25,000 14/02/2023
    This group will use the funding to employ a new full-time youth worker to support care-experienced young people in coping with the financial and practical impacts arising from the cost-of-living ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £14,400 06/02/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    William Grant Foundation - Made with Care
    £48,960 16/09/2022
    36
    Unrestricted funding but amount designed to enable the charity to fund a part-time Project Lead for the Made with Care programme for three years. The programme will support care experienced young ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £144,000 19/01/2022
    24
    Towards unrestricted core costs to support care experienced young people to unlock, explore and nurture their creative talent, improve wellbeing, and inform creative practice and the care system.
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Service Designed
    £13,800 11/10/2021
    New, inclusive and in-depth workshops which will co-develop an evidence-based Arts and Wellbeing Programme for young people with experience of care and the adults and families who support them. An ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - TWENTY-SIX
    £10,000 22/06/2021
    This group will use funds to deliver a programme of creative activities for 12 young people leaving care with the aim of supporting the transition.
    The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £58,500 07/06/2021
    Towards employing a specialist Arts and Mental Well-being Co-ordinator.
    Scottish Government - Articulate Cultural Trust
    £5,000 13/01/2021
    Detailed description not provided.
    The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Articulate Cultural Trust
    £5,000 17/11/2020
    Towards project costs to hold 20 of the 60 planned workshops supporting care-experienced youth using arts and culture participation.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £4,482 22/09/2020
    to establish a six-week ?Creative Assistant? programme for four young adults. The programme will be fully online, and will train the young people in how to support professional artists to deliver ....more
    Corra Foundation - HDG-20/4066
    £6,000 06/08/2020
    towards the arts project for families with care experienced parents.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £14,898 29/06/2020
    to contribute towards delivering the Innovations in Creative and Cultural Enterprise project.
    Scottish Government - Articulate Cultural Trust
    £20,630 18/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £4,350 01/05/2020
    COVID19 : purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works with disadvantage young people in Scotland
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £15,000 28/04/2020
    6
    towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
    National Lottery Community Fund - Creativity Knows No Quarantine
    £9,660 24/04/2020
    6
    This project will use funds to deliver digital arts based workshops to Care Experienced Young People during the COVID-19 lockdown.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £5,000 09/04/2020
    To deliver imaginative, inclusive and creative support for care experienced parents/carers to overcome this unique set of challenges. This will include online webinars aimed at children (live ....more
    Women's Fund for Scotland - Blue Light Blue
    £8,200 16/12/2019
    7
    to contribute towards delivering the Blue Light Blue project.
    National Lottery Community Fund - On Track
    £4,000 24/01/2019
    12
    The group will use the funding to provide care experienced young people with a year of professional mentoring and support to write, produce and publish music.
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Articulate Cultural Trust
    £90,000 05/12/2018
    36
    Towards core costs including the salary of the engagement and empowerment co-ordinator to use creativity as a vehicle for supporting care experienced young people and enabling them to engage with and ....more
    Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Engagement and Empowerment Coordinator
    £36,000 12/06/2018
    The salary costs of the Engagement and Empowerment Coordinator
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 20/12/2016, number: SC047054
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    20 Eastwoodmains Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6QF

    Objectives

    1.1 The advancement of the arts through establishing arts facilities and services run by and for care experienced young people and other marginalised members of society. 1.2 The advancement of education through providing training and skills development opportunities for care experienced young people and other marginalised members of society. 1.3 The advancement of community development through ensuring individual and community engagement by, with and for care experienced young people and other marginalised learners. and 1.4 The relief of need through providing opportunities for social, educational and artistic development for those who would otherwise struggle to access these opportunities.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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