Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

AESOP ARTS AND SOCIETY LIMITED 

The Foundation's mission is to bring the transformative potential of the arts into people's daily lives. Its first major programme of action focuses on bringing the arts into the mainstream of health and social care services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 14 years

www.ae-sop.org

info@ae-sop.org

07841732766

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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£427£490£-63n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/21£566£432£134£0£227£401.1938
31/03/20£404£562£-158n/an/an/an/an/a822
31/03/19£864£838£26£0£251£1542.211727
31/03/18£739£628£111£0£225£104211700
31/03/17£204£197£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£372£344£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£78£34£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£19£18£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£25£3£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£5£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£65£53£13£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 21%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 14 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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£317,343
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£70,000
Dulverton Trust£30,000
The Foyle Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 29/11/2022
towards core costs over the next 12 months
Dulverton Trust - Dance to Health in the West Midlands and South West Wales
£30,000 28/10/2021
Dance to Health in the West Midlands and South West Wales
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£80,000 09/10/2020
"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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 27/05/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - Aesop recovery programme
£200,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Aesop recovery programme - second round
£37,343 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Dance to Health social franchising model
£50,000 04/02/2020
Aesop connects Arts and Health organistions through research and programmes. Their flagship programme, Dance to Health, addresses the major health challenge of older people's falls through nationwide ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 26/11/2018
Dance to Health
John Ellerman Foundation - Towards salary of Head of Public Engagement & Communications
£81,775 30/11/2017
36
Towards the salary of a Head of Public Engagement and Communications to focus on the national scale up of their Dance to Health programme.
Nesta - AC00624
£246,919 31/03/2017
29
Second Half Fund programme grant to Aesop Arts and Society Limited Grant Ref AC00624
DCMS - Second Half Fund
£123,460 31/03/2017
Nesta is undertaking a programme called the ?Second Half Fund? (?the Programme?) which is supported and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through the Office for Civil Society. The ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Maintenance Programmes Abingdon and Banbury
£5,000 23/11/2016
Improvement and maintenance programmes in Abingdon and Banbury following on from successful pilot programme. The aim is to start the programmes in January. Thanks to £500 from VWHDC and also ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Aesop Arts and Society Ltd
£60,000 25/07/2016
24
Towards the salary of the project manager to continue to develop the Dance to Health programme for older people.
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Aesop Marketplace
£10,000 14/03/2016
Connecting health decision-makers and arts in health programmes
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Dance to Health
£5,000 07/12/2015
The grant will be spent on delivery of Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Dance to Health primary prevention
£37,338 17/03/2015
Dance to Health responds to the challenge of older people's falls and challenges faced by current services: patchy provision; older people's low take-up, adherence and follow-up
City Bridge Trust - Grant to AESOP Arts and Society Limited
£45,900 12/03/2015
£45,900 over one year towards the choreographic commission, and delivery and evaluation, of the Dance to Health programme at the AmicusHorizon Sheltered Housing Scheme in Lambeth and the Redbridge ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Aesop Arts and Society Ltd
£42,000 21/01/2015
15
Towards a project manager to lead a pilot programme for dance and older people.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/03/2010, number: 1134572
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/08/2009, number: 06998306
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR11: 20 days late,
Main office

Wittas House
Two Rivers
Station Lane
WITNEY
Oxfordshire
OX28 4BH

Objectives

3.1 TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THEUSE OF THE ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:3.1.1 ADVOCATING THE ROLE OF THE ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.2 PROMOTING GOOD PRACTICE AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.3 PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP WORKING AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IN THE HEALTHSECTOR AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH THE ARTS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR,3.1.4 CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ARTS AND ALLASPECTS OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OFSUCH RESEARCH, AND3.1.5 PROMOTING TRAINING AMONGST EACH OF THOSE GROUPS SO AS TO BETTER ENABLETHEM TO DELIVER ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RESEARCHING, INVESTIGATING ANDDEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH, AND IMPACTON, HEALTH, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ANDIMPROVEMENT, THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN, AND THEREHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS, AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCHRESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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