Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

THE BIG HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY 

TBH was established to provide a creative, supportive space to help care leavers overcome traumas experienced in childhood and to enable them to integrate successfully into society. TBH has 4 main activities: Drop-in workshopsOpen House Projects (12 weeks of drama workshops, theatre participation, life skills and employability)MentoringFull-scale theatre productions
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no 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 dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 11 years

www.thebighouse.uk.com

info@thebighouse.uk.com

02079239955

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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
31/12/22£755£667£88£71£1,148£66712755
31/12/21£868£539£330£52£1,060£54912.2831
31/12/20£694£495£199£68£731£3498.4717
31/12/19£676£561£115£117£532£3026.5625
31/12/18£569£442£127£61£417£3128.5625
31/12/17£460£316£144£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£301£264£37£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£254£227£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£170£146£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£139£80£59£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 58%
Reserves/Spending: 12 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 18 months
Quick Ratio: 7.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
  • 55 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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
City Bridge Trust£232,851
Esmee Fairbairn£155,858
Henry Smith Charity£154,200
Greater London Authority£147,114
National Lottery Heritage Fund£124,491
DCMS£106,495
Garfield Weston Foundation£105,000
John Lyon's Charity£99,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£11,962 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Big House Theatre Company
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£17,000 06/10/2022
An unrestricted grant of £17,000. The Big House Theatre Company works with young people in London who have been through the case system by giving them the platform to use their voices through ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£124,491 15/08/2022
The Big House Represents
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£35,000 04/04/2022
The Big House
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 08/02/2022
towards two contemporary theatre productions performed and written by disadvantaged young people in London in 2022
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£119,621 19/01/2022
24
Towards unrestricted core costs to develop The Big Mouth, to drive change and equip young people with new skills to produce creative materials.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Big House
£80,000 01/12/2021
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Big House
£25,000 25/06/2021
Open House Project (OHP)
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£99,000 18/11/2020
36
Open House Project (OHP)
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Big House
£154,200 13/11/2020
36
towards three years' salary of the Engagement Manager and the Finance and Operations Director at a project to develop emotional resilience of young care leavers through drama workshops, counselling, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£163,100 06/10/2020
£163,100 over 4 years (£46,600; £42,700; £38,900; £34,900) core funding towards salary costs of the Associate Director and The Big House Means Business Manager and a contribution towards rent, ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£8,000 14/09/2020
The Big House’s Open House Project: Supporting young care leavers with mental health challenges through the creative arts.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£49,751 13/08/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for the Hot House project
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£11,659 23/07/2020
Grant to The Big House Theatre Company meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£18,285 08/07/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Big House
£20,000 28/05/2020
£20,000 towards 3 months of costs as outlined in our application, with a maximum of 10% to be used towards overheads.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£24,275 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - Ballad of Corona V
£88,210 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Community Fund - Flex
£9,998 28/01/2020
11
The project will use the funding to deliver two sets of workshops, one in writing and the other in directing, for care leavers in the London area, with the aim to support young people by building ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Big House
£25,000 27/01/2020
Open House Project (OHP)
Greater London Authority - The Big House Theatre Company
£147,114 01/01/2020
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
Greenwood Place - Grant to Big House
£50,000 01/01/2020
Unrestricted funding
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Big House Theatre Company
£40,000 28/11/2019
refurbishment and fitting out of a theatre building for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in London
The Segelman Trust - Grant to The Big House
£25,000 12/11/2019
12
To support core costs as they bed into their newly purchased premises
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£70,000 21/10/2019
Core Grant Towards The Big House's Work
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£100,000 27/03/2019
36
Big House Theatre Company is requesting a core costs grant to contribute to its delivery and development of its programmes supporting care experienced young people to develop and move forward in ....more
Comic Relief - Beyond Grants Pilot
£63,676 10/02/2019
3
The Big House has moved into a 10-room former frame factory in the heart of Islington. We’re currently re-developing this space, previously unused for nearly a decade. Englefield Road is the first ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£146,245 29/08/2018
36
Towards the salary of the finance and operations director to support an expansion of the organisation’s artistic provision with care experienced young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Open House Project (OHP)
£334,382 06/09/2017
36
This group will develop their project which will support young people leaving care and other vulnerable young people to develop their life skills and transition into adulthood. The project will ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting care leavers and at-risk young people through holistic intervention.
£60,000 18/07/2016
24
PHF support will fund a new post of Operations Manager enabling TBH to maintain the quality of its core offer whilst developing new projects, including TBH Means Business (an income generation ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Big House at The Royal Court Theatre
£5,000 13/06/2016
2
Support towards three performances of Knife Edge – the full scale promenade theatre production that The Big House presented to packed audiences in a restaurant in Dalston in May/June 2016 – at ....more
Comic Relief - Supporting at-risk NEET care leavers (aged 16-24 years) through holistic intervention
£112,501 16/03/2016
36
Statistics show that young people leaving care are significantly more likely to develop mental health issues, become homeless and enter prison. 2013/14 figures for England also show that 23% of all ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Big House
£74,300 10/03/2016
36
towards two years' salary of the Associate Director at a project engaging and mentoring at-risk and NEET care leavers in London
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards travel and subsistence costs of the Open House Project
£5,000 06/08/2015
Towards travel and subsistence costs of 15 young care leavers to go on the Open House Project with supportive mentors.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Big House Theatre Company
£72,000 06/05/2015
36
supporting the needs of care leavers to increase their peer networks, reduce stress and isolation and improve their opportunities to improve basic skills and move towards and into work
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Open House Project
£52,500 31/07/2014
Delivery of 3 intensive OHPs, and consolidation of a best-practice model for the innovative OHP including development of an effective and efficient impact measurement system.
The Fore - Grant to The Big House Theatre Co.
£21,403 30/04/2013
Grant funded the first pilot project in summer 2013 where 12 care leavers participated in a 3 month intensive course including support with planning their way back into education or employment.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-68
  • KIREN SHOMAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Vice President -Pedagogy
  • MARK GOODIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Corporate Credit Risk Management
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/03/2013, number: 1151106
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/11/2012, number: 08297808
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

151 Englefield Road
Islington
LONDON
N1 3LH

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG THOSE LEAVING THE CARE SYSTEM OR THE PENAL SYSTEM OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE AT RISK OF EXCLUSION BY SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY (AS A RESULT OF UNEMPLOYMENT; IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1. PROVIDING ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; AND2. PROVIDING ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND GENERAL SUPPORT.

Data Sources

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