Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

INVISIBLE DUST 

Invisible Dust works with leading artists and scientists to produce unique and exciting works of contemporary art and new scientific ideas exploring our environment and climate change.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 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
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 7 years
(13 years as a company)

www.invisibledust.com

admin@invisibledust.com

07939140071

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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£424£383£41n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£481£624£-144n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£734£506£228£3£248£811.910
31/03/20£356£378£-22n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£579£635£-56£7£41£110.270
31/03/18£484£493£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Scotland, 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£183,312
Esmee Fairbairn£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch£14,000
Sussex Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to East Sussex Recovery Alliance (ESRA) CIC
£5,000 16/07/2021
12
Funding was provided towards café supervisor salaries.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Invisible Dust
£30,000 23/06/2020
12
Towards core costs for an executive director post to increase capacity to deliver ambitious projects addressing the environment and climate change, public engagement and behaviour change.
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisations 2018 - 2022
£183,312 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
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Invisible Dust
£14,000 09/12/2019
For the post of Interim Executive Director; to build Invisible Dust's capacity and ensure it is able to create a robust business plan and a sustainable, resilient future.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 24/07/2019
Organisational consolidation and ambitious programming
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Invisible Dust
£11,500 17/02/2017
To commission and curate artists for CGF's The Ocean Connects us even in Lond in March; and to support the 'Sounding the Sea Symposium' in June as part of Hull City of Culture 2017.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/01/2017, number: 1171156
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/10/2010, number: 07403737
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

WOODEND CREATIVE WORKSPACE
THE CRESCENT
SCARBOROUGH
YO11 2PW

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:A.THE PROMOTION OF ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PRODUCTION AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF HIGH QUALITY WORKS OF VISUAL AND DIGITAL ART INFORMED BY SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON SUBJECTS INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT; ANDB.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY OF WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND LECTURES FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON SUBJECTS INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.IN THIS ARTICLE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS THAT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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