Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 9
  • Excess reserves: -4
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

BURY METROPOLITAN ARTS ASSOCIATION 

Theatre and Arts Centre giving the opportunity to participate and enjoy performance through delivery of professional programmes and workshops
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £3,101,247 available, equivalent to 49 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 35 years

www.themet.org.uk

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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£810£758£52£13£3,174£3,10149.11650
31/03/22£810£758£52£8£3,355£3,23051.11950
31/03/21£886£679£207£9£3,594£3,36359.51810
31/03/20£712£881£-169£23£3,387£-46-0.61634
31/03/19£837£1,084£-247£14£3,556£-28-0.316111
31/03/18£1,116£1,106£10£27£3,811£10110
31/03/17£3,793£840£2,954£27£3,801£-4-0.1110
31/03/16£1,722£922£800£7£847£-146-1.9100
31/03/15£1,047£916£132£17£47£-153-2120
31/03/14£812£830£-18£9£-74£-140-2120
31/03/13£755£770£-15£15£-56£-135-2.1120
31/03/12£817£927£-110£26£-41£-145-1.9110
31/03/11*£605£580£26£6£68£70.2100
31/03/10*£617£562£55£7£43£-9-0.280
31/03/09£481£492£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£438£443£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£439£432£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£413£408£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£359£345£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£309£320£-11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 53%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 49.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Bury,

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£305,205
Youth Music£60,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
Backstage Trust£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,990
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - No Barriers
£30,000 04/11/2022
No Barriers
Backstage Trust - Capital grant
£15,000 27/05/2022
Feasibility study ahead of capital improvements
National Lottery Community Fund - Met Express and Aiming High
£9,990 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to support the collaboration of preforming arts groups for children and adults with learning disabilities. The project aims to bring the two groups closer together for ....more
Youth Music - Blueprint
£30,000 11/11/2021
Blueprint
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 24/11/2020
towards expanding digital provision, specifically digital equipment (£20K) and contribution to related salary costs (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£83,064 11/08/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Bury Metropolitan Arts Association
£3,710 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund staffing, training, online access, and activity packs for disabled children and young people who are isolated due to Covid-19. It will improve their relationships.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,710 22/05/2020
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
DCMS - BMAA NPO 2018-2022
£102,431 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
DCMS - Met Recovery Fund
£116,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 10/07/2019
Building Capacity & Resilience
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Bury Metropolitan Arts Association
£28,782 13/03/2018
36
This project will provide dance and performance workshops to autistic children in Bury. This will give them the opportunity to build strong friendships and improve their communication skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - A Better Met - Access for the whole community.
£10,000 31/01/2018
12
The group will build a disabled ramp and install new facilities at their premises, to improve accessibility for people with additional needs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creativity Works - Young Volunteer training course
£10,000 15/08/2013
12
This is a project by a registered charity in Bury. The organisation will use the funding to run a training programme for NEET's to develop and deliver training for young people and to develop an ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-70
  • JANE LAURA BLACK Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Councillor For St.Mary'S Ward In Prestwich
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/08/1989, number: 701879
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/1989, number: 02370868
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
20 returns made; AR11: 12 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR04: 39 days late,
Main office

THE MET
MARKET STREET
BURY
LANCS
BL9 0BW

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE FURTHERANCE OF THE PERFORMING AND ARTISTIC ARTS AND BY INCREASING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ARTS AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BURY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BURY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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