Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +12

CREATE (ARTS) LIMITED 

Create uses the creative arts to help transform the lives of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in our society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
Established: 21 years

www.createarts.org.uk

info@createarts.org.uk

02073748485

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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£1,139£1,105£34£127£1,283£7307.9200
31/03/22£1,013£953£60£160£1,249£6658.4190
31/03/21£1,059£824£235£1£1,188£68410170
31/03/20£890£825£66£12£488£4887.117148
31/03/19£779£776£3£11£422£4226.517150
31/03/18£787£729£58£11£418£4186.9160
31/03/17£775£738£37£18£361£3615.9160
31/03/16£720£658£62£14£323£3235.9140
31/03/15£644£595£49£13£261£2615.3110
31/03/14£514£459£56£14£212£2125.580
31/03/13£433£424£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£336£333£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£351£334£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£352£326£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£397£376£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£405£388£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£346£330£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£295£260£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£241£236£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£96£88£7£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 57%
Reserves/Spending: 7.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 6.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2017 Arts & Culture
  • FSI Small Charity Big Impact Awards 2017 Charity with turnover £500,000-£1,500,000
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
John Lyon's Charity£173,100
Prudence Trust£151,579
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£100,000
St Paul's Schools Foundation£72,870
Masonic Trust£40,305
The Foyle Foundation£40,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£30,000
Rothschild Foundation£21,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 28/11/2023
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£3,000 03/04/2023
towards an inclusive multi art form project that brings young people with severe and profound learning disabilities together with non-disabled young people in Thurrock
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£33,000 17/11/2022
changing:minds
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Create (Arts) Limited - 26/09/22
£3,000 24/10/2022
Core Funding
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Create Arts
£30,000 08/02/2022
Collaborative, professionally-led creative workshop programmes designed in partnership with local day centres to bring older people together to reduce chronic loneliness, develop skills, nurture ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - inspired:arts ~ Poole
£9,998 28/10/2021
The organisation will use the funding to continue to run creative workshops that bring together and support young carers in the local area. Working in partnership with organisations who support young ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Create
£1,618 23/10/2021
We run professionally led creative arts workshops, connecting vulnerable young carers in Lambeth to have fun and develop confidence, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing.
Prudence Trust - creative:tandem (arts programme for adolescent psychiatric patients)
£151,579 19/10/2021
To run 45 4-day art residencies in child and adolescent mental health units over three years.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Create - legal name: Create (Arts) Limited - 01/07/21
£1,500 28/07/2021
creative:connection ~ Manchester
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£31,100 14/07/2021
Environment Matters
The Childhood Trust - Supporting young carers through the creative arts
£1,500 22/06/2021
Please support Create ~ Charity of the Year 2020 ~ to deliver creative arts workshops to young carers in London. Create's workshops have a positive impact on mental health & wellbeing whilst ....more
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Create
£21,000 28/01/2021
12
Young carers will participate in creative arts workshops designed to reduce isolation and improve wellbeing delivered by Create in partnership with local charity Carers Bucks.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£5,000 19/11/2020
11
Funding was provided for core staff costs and evaluation.
National Lottery Community Fund - inspired:arts ~ Dorset
£6,817 22/10/2020
6
This project will provide remote creative workshops that bring together vulnerable young carers in Dorset. Groups of 8-12 young carers will be brought together to take part in high-quality ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Create (Arts)
£10,000 09/09/2020
purchase IT equipment for a charity that supports disadvantaged young people Nationally
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£3,000 20/07/2020
2
inspired:arts ~ Ealing
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£11,500 19/06/2020
12
COVID-19: LCR Wave 2 - Digital delivery with young carers and SEND
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£40,305 11/02/2020
Grant to fund creative arts workshops for lonely and isolated older people across London.
Wates Foundation - Create (Arts) Limited
£10,000 21/11/2019
Funding for inspired:arts, the charity’s award-winning national programme with isolated young carers, in 2020/21.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£2,500 18/11/2019
11
Funding was provided for a creative arts project for young carers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Create
£8,427 15/11/2019
“creative:freedom: Creative arts workshops with disabled young people who attend the Surjamuki Project
London Catalyst - Create - 1
£2,500 03/09/2019
creative:tandem ~ arts workshops with young patients aged 6-12, led by professional practicing artists and delivered in partnership with psychiatric unit Acorn Lodge Children?s Unit (ALCU) at South ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 04/07/2019
creative:connection
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Create (Arts) Limited
£94,500 14/06/2019
36
Community Matters
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Create Arts
£100,000 30/04/2019
33
art:links - a programme of high quality, interactive, tailored creative arts workshops, delivered by professional practising artists, that improve the wellbeing of vulnerable older people living in ....more
Essex Community Foundation - creative:connection
£2,556 25/04/2019
10
Towards costs to deliver six days of creative workshops for young people with severe and profound learning disabilities attending schools in Thurrock
St Paul's Schools Foundation - Grant to Create Arts
£72,870 04/04/2019
36
High quality, interactive, creative arts workshops with young carers living in London.
National Lottery Community Fund - creative:connection Manchester
£10,000 17/08/2018
12
The organisation will deliver a music project to bring together disabled and non-disabled young people in the local community. It aims to break down barriers and develop creativity, social skills and ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Creative:Connection ~ Essex
£3,000 21/06/2018
10
Towards an inclusive multi art form project that brings young people with disabilities together with non-disabled young people in Thurrock
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Create (Arts) Ltd
£120,000 14/06/2017
36
Half day arts workshops for young carers, delivered by professional artists and designed around the ideas produced by the young people attending the sessions. Young people will be able to express ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Create (Arts) Ltd
£36,000 29/10/2012
the salary of the Executive Director
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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: 30-74
  • VANESSA SHARP Appointed: 2015, Occupation: General Counsel Kpmg; Jewellery Designer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/09/2003, number: 1099733
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/04/2003, number: 04728145
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from PRO YOUTH PHILHARMONIA on 30/07/2021
Main office

3rd Floor
14 Austin Friars
London

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS.B) TO PROMOTE THE USE OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY THE CREATIVE ARTS, AS A WAY OF;I) RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, SICK, DISABLED, ELDERLY AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION.II) REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS.III) RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THE UNEMPLOYED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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