Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

ENTELECHY ARTS LIMITED 

Entelechy manages a large portfolio of arts programmes developing inclusive and intergenerational work with people who have profound disabilities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Established: 26 years

www.entelechyarts.org

info@entelechyarts.org

02086949007

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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
31/03/22£598£478£119£8£305£1724.3725
31/03/21£291£305£-14n/an/an/an/an/a17
31/03/20£358£316£42n/an/an/an/an/a79
31/03/19£341£311£30n/an/an/an/an/a54
31/03/18£254£265£-12£0£0£0n/a053
31/03/17£298£232£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£238£212£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£154£150£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£156£158£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£192£198£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£153£144£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£162£145£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£111£121£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£195£192£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£119£107£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£92£104£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£183£165£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£181£196£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£226£164£61£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 56%
Reserves/Spending: 4.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 11.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
  • 25 volunteers

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£266,000
DCMS£176,810
City Bridge Trust£108,180
National Lottery Heritage Fund£94,773
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,140
Greater London Authority£10,000
Sport England£9,364
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ENTELECHY ARTS LIMITED
£266,000 19/09/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs of an ambitious programme of change in Lewisham, led by members with PMLD, through public and creative interventions, responding to local issues and elevating their ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£84,953 08/03/2023
What Will Survive of Us: Development
National Lottery Community Fund - Entelechy Choir
£9,600 18/03/2022
The funding will be used to fund a weekly singing group for isolated older people in Lewisham. The choir was delivered via telephone during the pandemic and funding will enable relaunch and develop ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 04/02/2022
Entelechy Arts: Creative Ageing
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Entelechy Arts
£9,820 13/09/2021
What Will Survive of Us
National Lottery Community Fund - Ambient Jam: with Antur Waunfawr
£9,840 06/04/2021
Entelechy Arts Limited will use the grant to run music and movement sessions with Adults with Learning Disabilities in Gwynedd. £9840 will fund facilitators project management training for care ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£80,000 16/03/2021
24
£80,000 over two further and final years (2 x £40,000) for the salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator (0.6FTE), Project Administrator (0.4FTE) and towards the associated running costs for the Meet Me ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Re-building connections and confidence for isolated older people.
£9,700 28/01/2021
5
The funding will be used to deliver social and creative activities for elderly people who are disproportionately effected by the pandemic. The project aims to reduce isolation and loneliness as well ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£18,180 08/05/2020
A grant of £18,180 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£10,000 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £10,000, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£81,826 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 - Theatre of Wandering
£68,000 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 - Transition and re-stablising for the future
£26,984 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
United Saviours Charity - Trocadero Trails
£3,200 10/01/2020
3
Creative project for older people living with dementia at Tower Bridge Care Home, themed around memories of the Elephant & Castle Trocadero cinema (1930 – 1963).
Greater London Authority - Entelechy Arts
£10,000 02/12/2019
Small Grants Programme 2019/20
Sport England - Fit Club
£9,364 01/10/2019
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Fit Club. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£6,000 16/09/2019
To support an international symposium: Creative Ageing and the City: London, Manchester, Tokyo
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£80,348 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
National Lottery Community Fund - Entelechy: Volunteering and Befriending
£9,448 27/03/2019
12
The project will extend the groups volunteer base. The aim is to address feelings of loneliness and isolation by delivering creative activities to elderly people.
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£80,348 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£20,087 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Entelechy Arts Limited
£120,000 31/01/2018
36
£120,000 over 3 years (£40,000 x3) for the salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator (0.6FTE), Project Administrator (0.4FTE) and towards the associated running costs for the Meet Me on the Move, Meet Me ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Meet Me at the Choir
£9,700 06/12/2017
12
This project will engage older people in weekly singing sessions to reduce social isolation and form new friendships.
London Catalyst - Entelechy Arts - 2
£4,000 09/05/2017
Meet Me Moving
Greater London Authority - Grant to Entelechy Arts
£9,974 13/03/2017
Team london small grants - supporting 59-69 year olds to volunteer and/or elderly people to have improved access to community services
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-83
  • JAMES BIRD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Arts Professional
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/03/1998, number: 1068469
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/04/1997, number: 03360794
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Entelechy Arts Ltd
Albany Centre & Theatre
Douglas Way
LONDON
SE8 4AG

Objectives

TO USE ARTS AND OTHER SOCIAL PRACTICES TO ENABLE ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO WORK WITH OTHERS FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES IN NEW AND VALUED WAYS AND TO DEVELOP LONG TERM SUSTAINED PRACTICE WITH INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN SOUTH EAST LONDON; AND TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ABOUT WORKING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES TO AUDIENCES AT REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH EAST LONDON

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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