Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

SCENE AND HEARD

Mentoring project partnering the children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals to create theatre. Delivers drama and playwriting projects, working one-to-one, with the aim of boosting self-esteem, raising aspirations, improving literacy, social and communication skills. Committed to maintaining long-term relationships with children, families and the Somers Town community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/04/23£479£375£105n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/22£419£249£171n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/21£289£172£117n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/20£286£223£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/19£232£198£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/18£199£181£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/17£151£166£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/16£215£162£54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/15£183£147£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/14£201£143£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/13£159£132£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/12£130£132£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/11£152£122£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/10£112£120£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/09£105£115£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/08£128£104£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/07*£45£58£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/06£66£80£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/05£87£90£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/04*£110£77£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 25 years

www.sceneandheard.org

mail@sceneandheard.org

02073889009

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
John Lyon's Charity£146,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Backstage Trust£33,000
BBC Children in Need£30,388
The Foyle Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/10/2023
Scene & Heard Theatre Mentoring Charity - Multi Year Core Costs
Backstage Trust - Programme Costs grant
£30,000 09/02/2023
Primary school playwriting programme in Somers Town
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Scene & Heard
£6,000 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Recovery grant to Scene & Heard
£22,000 17/11/2022
Scene & Heard HQ Refurbishment
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Scene & Heard
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Backstage Trust - Core grant
£3,000 28/07/2022
Playwriting and performance programme for young people in Somers Town
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/04/2022
Multi Year Core Costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Scene & Heard
£29,888 31/01/2022
Playwriting and performance courses for children and young people who live in an area of high deprivation. Activities will improve children and young people's confidence, literacy and communciation ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 16/09/2021
towards core costs of youth arts charity
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Scene & Heard
£28,900 14/07/2021
Playmaking One Autumn 2021 & Summer 2022
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Scene & Heard
£90,000 10/03/2021
36
Core Costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/06/2019
Core Costs 2019-2020
Camden Giving - Playmaking One Autumn 2019
£9,720 30/04/2019
10
The project is a Playmaking One course in summer term 2019. The funds supported the culmination of the course, the production and performance of each child’s play for a capacity audience.   The ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the Replay Course
£1,500 14/11/2018
Towards the Replay Course for disadvantaged children in Somers Town.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Scene & Heard
£48,293 27/06/2018
36
Playwriting and performance courses for children and young people who live in an area of high deprivation. Activities will improve children and young people's confidence, communication skills and ....more
Camden Giving - Playmaking One Summer 2018 - Production
£7,527 22/05/2018
14
The project is the first course where each newly referred child is paired with a volunteer theatre professional for eight weekly after-school classes culminating in the Writing Weekend. The child, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 26/09/2017
Scene & Heard Core Funding
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the course and production costs for Our Playmaking One course
£1,500 31/07/2014
Towards the course and production costs for Our Playmaking One course running in autumn 2014 for under-privileged children in Somers Town, Camden.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Help underprivileged children in Camden write and perform their own plays.
£1,500 04/02/2014
To help underprivileged children in Camden write and perform their own plays.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Scene & Heard
£20,000 30/06/2011
the salary costs of the Artistic Director
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-59
  • ANDREW PORTER Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Architect
  • ANTHONY OBIEZEKPAZU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • DAVID STEWART Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Associate Partner
  • EMILY GISELLE PLOSKER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Associate
  • EMMA JANE BELL (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Television Producer
  • JOHN NEVIN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Lawyer
  • JAMES PATRICK JOHN O'SHEA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Teacher
  • JOANNE MILLARD Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • JOHN MORRIS ERIC ROLPH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Social Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/10/1999, number: 1077836
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/04/1999, number: 03761808
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; AR07: 1 days late, AR04: 29 days late,
Main office

128A Chalton Street
LONDON
NW1 1RX

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY OF SOMERSTOWN, LONDON BY THE TEACHING AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA AND PLAYWRITING

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOMERSTOWN, LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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