Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

BIG BRUM (THEATRE IN EDUCATION) COMPANY LIMITED 

Provides a theatre-in-education service for schools, pupil referral units, special schools, and colleges;Presents performances of new plays, for young people in particular, in arts and community venues;Makes theatre-based inputs into teachers' INSET, and into teacher-training and drama courses;
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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
Established: 41 years

www.bigbrum.org.uk

TIE@bigbrum.org.uk

0121 742 6321

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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£249£217£32n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/22£315£229£86n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/21£143£147£-4n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£258£217£42n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/19£225£226£-1n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£183£189£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£218£192£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£173£199£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£205£185£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£194£209£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£230£244£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£244£238£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£230£248£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£233£253£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£233£223£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£182£233£-50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£233£235£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£226£212£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£184£181£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£199£213£-13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 1 volunteer
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Staffordshire, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire,

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£207,375
DCMS£55,050
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£28,000
The Foyle Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Creating 'Schools of Recovery'
£9,875 18/01/2023
Big Brum Theatre in Education delivers tours and projects to children and young people in the Midlands and beyond. They work with schools and colleges in areas of socio-economic deprivation to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 09/09/2022
Along the Silk Road
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Creating 'Schools of Recovery'
£197,500 29/11/2021
30
Big Brum Theatre in Education delivers tours and projects to children and young people in the Midlands and beyond. They work with schools and colleges in areas of socio-economic deprivation to ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Big Brum Theatre in Education Company
£28,000 02/02/2021
The purchase of a vehicle for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in the West Midlands
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 06/11/2020
Romeo and Juliet Schools Tour Spring 2021
DCMS - Big Brum Theatre in Education Company 2021
£55,050 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 29/05/2019
Theseus and the Minotaur Theatre in Education Tour
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 25/04/2019
towards an autumn tour of Theseus and the Minotaur aimed at children aged 7 to 11 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Big Brum (Theatre in Education) Company Ltd
£28,600 09/10/2018
The Threshold of Home: 1918
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening the case for Theatre in Education
£242,000 01/02/2016
36
By improving its approach to evaluation and promotion of its work, BB plans to strengthen the case for theatre in education in response to the current challenging educational context. It will also ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Big Brum (Theatre in Education) Company Ltd
£25,000 17/12/2015
Ties That Bind
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Big Brum Theatre in Education Company
£56,690 10/02/2010
36
Towards Project costs Towards a programme of theatre-in-education training for teachers and students and an expansion of company-based work experience placements.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Costs setting up a Little Brum Youth Theatre
£1,950 30/07/2008
Towards the costs setting up a Little Brum Youth Theatre for children aged 8-12 from across the West Midlands for out of school artistic and educational provision.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-76
  • BOB LEE (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired Headteacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/09/1983, number: 514071
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/06/1983, number: 01731105
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

SHELDON COMMUNITY CENTRE
SHELDON HEATH ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B26 2RU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, AND, IN PARTICULAR, YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA, MIME, MOVEMENT AND MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD AND BY PARTICUPATION THEREIN IN SCHOOLS, YOUTH CLUBS, ARTS CENTRES AND OTHER PLACES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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