Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET 

Birmingham Royal Ballet seeks to be the UK's foremost international ballet company, enriching people's lives through dance, and aspiring to excellence in all that it does
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 27 years

www.brb.org.uk

info@brb.org.uk

01212453525

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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
31/03/23£16,576£16,757£-181£616£8,068£4,3073.120817
31/03/22£13,392£15,217£-1,824£652£8,512£4,4473.518817
31/03/21£14,423£10,801£3,622£633£10,264£6,3747.11820
31/03/20*£15,488£15,560£-72£699£5,945£3,4642.719427
31/03/19£15,388£15,363£25£649£6,293£3,5332.819618
31/03/18£14,771£14,878£-107£797£6,124£3,5992.91880
31/03/17£13,828£13,955£-127£579£6,208£3,5653.11840
02/04/16£13,976£13,253£724£535£5,937£3,7333.41840
31/03/15£15,430£12,360£3,069£559£5,562£3,7003.61630
31/03/14£12,812£12,935£-123£535£2,378£1,09111630
31/03/13£13,409£13,723£-315£531£2,391£1,2771.11700
31/03/12£12,748£12,308£440£443£1,938£1,5901.61710
02/04/11£14,641£14,296£345£428£1,498£1,4661.21750
31/03/10£12,753£12,602£152£365£1,153£1,1081.11770
31/03/09£13,148£13,399£-251£414£1,001£9430.81680
31/03/08£12,878£12,164£714£358£1,253£1,1831.21770
31/03/07£11,610£11,692£-82£293£539£5390.61670
01/04/06£10,987£10,774£213£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£11,103£10,768£335£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£11,276£10,908£368£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £250,000-£300,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 3.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Who works here?
  • 208 employees
  • 17 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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£8,711,194
Garfield Weston Foundation£600,000
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£20,000 26/10/2022
Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£20,000 14/07/2021
Funding to support the West Midlands consortium to undertake a community consultation and an audit of combined resources and assets, to establish a strategy for embedding a Creative Academy into ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£600,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
DCMS - BRB NPO 201822
£8,036,194 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 - Birmingham Royal Ballet Recovery Fund
£500,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Birmingham Royal Ballet CRF2
£175,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Royal Ballet
£15,100 27/06/2018
36
Dance Track
Nesta - Arts, heritage, sports and faith
£215,000 19/07/2017
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Royal Ballet
£17,100 31/10/2016
12
Dance Track
Birmingham City Council - Birmingham Royal Ballet
£525,000 01/04/2016
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET; Arts and culture;
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-76
  • BARRY ALLEN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor
  • MAVERINE DUFFY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Journalist And Broadcaster
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/02/1997, number: 1061012
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/02/1997, number: 03320538
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from DRAMALINK THEATRE COMPANY on 20/03/2024
Main office

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
THORP STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B5 4AU

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF BALLET, DANCE, MUSIC AND DRAMA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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