Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 15
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15

FUEL PRODUCTIONS LTD 

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. We believe that enjoying and benefiting from art should be a part of everyday life. We create dynamic live theatre performance with artists who are pioneering and collaborative. We work hard to reach and have meaningful impact on a large and diverse audience across the UK and internationally.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 11 years

http://www.fueltheatre.com

admin@fueltheatre.com

02072286688

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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£1,527£1,674£-147£38£542£3082.2163
31/03/22£1,453£1,453£1£35£689£5454.5160
31/03/21£1,435£1,181£253£43£689£5015.1161
31/03/20£1,927£1,922£5£10£435£4102.6165
31/03/19£2,735£2,460£275£0£431£3981.9160
31/03/18£940£989£-49£0£155£1211.500
31/03/17£465£482£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£685£684£1£3£221£1182.100
31/03/15£963£1,091£-128£6£220£410.500
31/03/14£843£628£215£4£348£1663.200

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 57%
Reserves/Spending: 2.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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£841,859
Esmee Fairbairn£370,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£287,000
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£112,251
Backstage Trust£90,000
The Foyle Foundation£80,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FUEL PRODUCTIONS LTD
£200,000 19/07/2023
Towards core costs for Fuel to embed and disseminate its place-based audience development and engagement strategy, and its embedded co-creation model, in key areas across the UK
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Fuel Productions
£0 05/07/2023
Cataloguing grant of £20,000 awarded towards 'Fuel’s Archive Collection'. Paid via Pilgrim Trust/National Archives joint programme Archives Revealed (22871)
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Fuel Productions Limited
£112,251 19/04/2023
Twenty Years of Never Doing the Same Thing Twice: Fuel archive and public engagement projects 2023-2024
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 07/02/2023
towards core costs, specifically towards staff costs associated with the development of new work
Backstage Trust - Core grant
£70,000 11/01/2023
Support for role of Production Manager and Fundraising Manager
Backstage Trust - Core grant
£20,000 27/04/2022
Contribution to salaries for Producer and Production Manager
John Ellerman Foundation - Contribution to core costs; Director/CEO's and Head of Programme's salaries
£120,000 31/03/2022
Contribution to core costs; Director/CEO's and Head of Programme's salaries
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£102,143 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£60,000 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 11/02/2021
towards core costs during 2021/22 to enable the continued production of new work by artists as well as rebuilding a new sustainable business model (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 22/07/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£20,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000 01/05/2020
Main Grants award - COVID19 response
DCMS - National Portfolio Application Organisation 2018-2022
£204,861 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 - Fuel Productions - Freelancers Task-force - Access
£6,500 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 - Fuel Productions - Freelancers Taskforce - access
£19,840 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 - Fuel Culture Recovery Plan
£428,729 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Fuel's Culture Recovery Plan - Apr-Jun 21
£79,786 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing a national audience engagement strategy
£267,000 16/03/2020
Fuel is a leading independent producer of new theatre, live, digital and multi-disciplinary work. It tours mid-large scale venues across the UK and internationally. Through this grant it will develop ....more
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd
£2,000 05/11/2019
3 seed commissions and a 3-year programme of support for diverse, early stage theatre makers Tom Stuart, Racheal Ofori and Rosemary Kingsley.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£90,000 22/10/2019
36
Towards core costs to support an organisational step-change as Fuel seeks to increase its production and touring capacity.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Fly The Flag
£20,000 04/03/2019
12
This grant provides support for Fly the Flag, a cross-sector campaign marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that aims to empower people to understand, embrace and ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - The Hartlepool Monkey for Hartlepool
£5,000 24/10/2018
To support The Hartlepool Monkey for Hartlepool production.
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Fuel Productions Ltd.
£90,000 16/10/2018
12
An investment in the transfer of Barbershop Chronicles to the Roundhouse, as part of our Arts Transfer Facility.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£119,560 11/05/2016
36
Towards core costs to enable Fuel to build on their engagement with audiences across the country.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£137,869 11/04/2013
Towards the development of a new touring model visiting five regional venues.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£20,000 09/08/2011
Towards the cost of an audience development project on behalf of the theatre group, The Future is Unwritten.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fuel Productions Ltd.
£65,000 15/09/2009
36
Towards Project costs Towards costs of three major public performances.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-70
  • JOE HALLGARTEN Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director Of Education The Rsa
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2012, number: 1149680
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/02/2012, number: 07935786
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

FUEL PRODUCTIONS LTD
Somerset House
South Wing
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

Objectives

(1)TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ENCOURAGING AND STIMULATING PUBLIC APPRECIATION, ARTISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ALL FORMS OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS, AND BY PROMOTING THE TRAINING OF THEATRE PROFESSIONALS AND THOSE WORKING IN THE ARTS. (2)TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO PERFORMANCES OF DRAMATIC ART.

Data Sources

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