Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

ACCESSIBLE ARTS & MEDIA 

Accessible Arts & Media runs a range of inclusive creative learning projects for groups including disabled adults and young people, older people with dementia and people with enduring mental health problems. Our projects help people develop the skills and confidence to connect with their local community and have more of a say in the things that matter to them.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 25 years

www.aamedia.org.uk

info@aamedia.org.uk

01904626965

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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£233£230£2n/an/an/an/an/a48
31/03/22£220£211£9n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/21£211£219£-7n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£274£257£17n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/19£232£231£1n/an/an/an/an/a41
31/03/18£302£298£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£256£257£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£195£228£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£247£221£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£217£204£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£178£161£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£143£146£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£166£170£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£130£142£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£212£185£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£60£55£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£31£35£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06?£34£38£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/05*£29£26£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/04£35£32£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of York, North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 48 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
Youth Music£219,495
Henry Smith Charity£178,700
BBC Children in Need£29,877
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£7,728
True Colours Trust£5,970
Two Ridings Community Foundation£5,000
Co-Operative Group£4,305
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards the costs of an inclusive music programme for disabled children and young people
£5,970 23/11/2022
Towards the costs of an inclusive music programme for disabled children and young people
Youth Music - IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
£119,600 13/10/2022
IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Movers & Shakers
£5,000 27/04/2022
Funding to provide the Movers and Shakers sessions for the next twelve months. These sessions are for adults with complex learning and physical disabilities from across the city.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accessible Arts & Media
£4,305 23/10/2021
Our iMUSE at Home kits would provide wellbeing support to York residents with mental ill health who are unable to attend sessions in person.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Accessible Arts and Media
£178,700 18/03/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Creative Director and Development Manager of an education and art project providing support to people with physical disability and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,728 18/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£10,000 01/05/2020
iMUSE (Interactive Multi-Sensory Environment)
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£1,000 26/03/2020
Towards core costs.
Youth Music - IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
£99,895 15/11/2019
IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Accessible Arts & Media Limited
£29,877 08/08/2019
36
This three year project will provide musical activities during and after school for children with various disabilities and their siblings. Activities will result in improved communication skills, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Accessible Arts and Media
£79,000 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' salary of the Creative Director at an education and art project providing support to people with physical disability and learning disabilities in York
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accessible Arts & Media
£3,989 29/11/2017
Fund multimedia and IT training that allows disadvantaged adults to gain vital work skills while providing a valuable community service.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Dementia workshops
£2,500 02/11/2017
Funding to run iMuse workshops with people affected by early onset dementia.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - AbleWeb Digital Inclusion Training Programme
£5,000 07/09/2016
Funding to support their AbleWeb Digital Inclusion Training Programme
Youth Music - IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
£119,384 27/04/2016
IMPs (Inclusive Music Projects)
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Accessible Arts and Media Limited
£25,000 25/10/2013
Accessible Arts provide creative music and arts projects for disabled people and others. They will use a grant to help fund their Project and Development Manager.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Capacity Building
£4,000 19/06/2013
Capacity Building
National Lottery Community Fund - Junior Hands & Voices Choir and Sound Weavers Accessible Technology Group
£10,000 08/02/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in York. The organisation will use funding to set up a singing and signing choir and a technology group which will involve song writing, composing, and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ableradio
£10,000 01/07/2010
12
This is a project by a registered charity in York to set-up an internet radio station which will be created and managed by adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. This will provide an ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-69
  • LUCY ANN GALLIARD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director Of Learning & Engagement, Cbso
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/12/1998, number: 1072902
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/01/1998, number: 03500128
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 77 days late,
Main office

Sanderson House
Bramham Road
YORK
YO26 5AR

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE ARTS AND MEDIA EDUCATION AND OPEN ACCESS TO THE ARTS IN YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ORGANISING TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS, PROVIDING FACILITIES AND INFORMATION, SUPPORTING GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS AND SKILLS TO FOCUS ACTIVELY ON THOSE WHO MAY NOT OTHERWISE ENJOY SUCH ACCESS THROUGH AGE, RACE, DISABILITY, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES2. TO FURTHER BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ESTABLISHING OR SECURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY AND MEDIA CENTRE AND BY MAINTAINING OR MANAGING OR CO-OPERATING WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER RELEVANT ORGANISATION IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

YORK AND SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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