Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

FREEWHEELERS THEATRE AND MEDIA LIMITED 

Freewheelers, based in Leatherhead, enables people with and without disabilities to produce and participate in high-quality original theatre, film and dance, challenging barriers and perceptions. Our students perform in live shows, and their films are shown widely. We won two Inspire Marks in the 2012 Cultural Olympics. In 2015 our film "Steep Rain" was shown at the UN Enable Film Festival.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
  • 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 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
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 13 years

www.freewheelerstheatre.co.uk

ceo@freewheelerstheatre.co.uk

01372 650908

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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?*£196£235£-39n/an/an/an/an/a17
30/04/22£166£233£-67n/an/an/an/an/a28
30/04/21£296£236£60n/an/an/an/an/a28
30/04/20£257£269£-11n/an/an/an/an/a70
30/04/19£247£225£22n/an/an/an/an/a80
30/04/18£225£190£35£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£225£215£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£235£199£36£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15£152£146£7£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/14£131£75£56£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/13£4£7£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/12£16£10£6£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 human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 17 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
DCMS£52,230
Community Foundation for Surrey£39,086
Wates Foundation£10,000
Henry Smith Charity£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,596
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Smile With Us
£9,596 21/10/2022
The funding will be used to continue to develop their weekly dance workshops and ‘Freewheeler radio’ podcasts for people with profound disabilities. The project aims to support people out of ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£4,586 06/05/2021
3
Funding toward the cost of new equipment and training, to enable a charity, based in East Surrey, that works with disabled people in drama, dance and film, to continue offering high quality training ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Support for final stages of a Dance Drama about Edgar Degas
£2,500 22/10/2020
5
Funding towards a theatre production with a predominately disabled cast by a charity that works with disabled people in drama, dance and film, based in East Surrey.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£13,000 28/09/2020
9
Funding towards core and additional costs of providing face-to-face services for people with disabilities amid the Coronavirus pandemic
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 28/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Wates Foundation - Freewheelers Theatre and Media Ltd
£10,000 20/05/2020
Support for the post of Chief Executive Officer.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - People with Disabilities
£5,000 03/04/2020
Funding toward the designing and developing of free online courses for individuals and groups of people within the Mole Valley and Elmbridge area, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCMS - Phoenix
£42,230 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Community Foundation for Surrey - New Friday Workshops
£4,000 03/02/2020
6
Visual arts + small group drama workshops for an organisation which supports people with disabilities.
Community Foundation for Surrey - General Manager salary
£10,000 01/10/2019
11
General Manager Salary for a charity which provides theatre workshops for people with disabilities.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Freewheelers Theatre and Media Ltd
£10,000 30/09/2019
12
towards one year's salary of the General Manager at a project providing opportunities for people with disabilities to produce and participate in theatre, film, music and dance in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - Thursday Morning Youth Dance Workshop 2019
£3,100 03/04/2019
8
Continuation funding for Thursday morning Youth Dance Workshops for disabled young people (2019/20).
Community Foundation for Surrey - Full length dance production of 'Degas'
£2,500 18/06/2018
11
Music and dance based project for people with disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Trip to the Moon Part II
£10,000 20/04/2018
12
The organisation will create a theatre production to enable disabled people to gain experiences that support personal growth, learn theatre skills, and increase social interaction opportunities.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Setting a Musical Direction
£3,900 24/07/2017
11
Music-based projects for people with disabilities
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Freewheelers Theatre and Media Ltd
£20,000 08/06/2017
24
towards two years' salary of the Operations Manager at a project in Surrey providing opportunities for people with disabilities to produce and participate in theatre, film, music and dance
Community Foundation for Surrey - Thursday morning Ashtead Dance Workshop support
£4,033 01/11/2016
11
Funding for a dance workshop over the period of a year for disabled young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Playing to the Camera
£10,000 20/01/2016
12
This charity will use the funding to work with a group of performers with disabilities to create an educational play. This will improve beneficiaries’ confidence and develop new life skills.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Freewheelers Theatre and Media Ltd
£20,000 11/06/2015
24
towards two years' salary of the Operations Manager at a project in Surrey that provides opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in theatre, film, music and dance activities
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out to Cobham
£10,000 04/10/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Elmbridge, Surrey. The organisation will use the funding to deliver dance and fitness workshops for people with learning and physical disabilities, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/06/2011, number: 1142638
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/04/2011, number: 07607883
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
  • 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
12 returns made; AR23: 62 days late,
Main office

231 Portsmouth Road
COBHAM
Surrey
KT11 1JR

Objectives

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF THEATRE. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. 3. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY.

Data Sources

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