Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

    READIPOP

    Readipop is an arts organisation offering workshops that develop creative uses for new digital technology, exploring music, sound, image and beyond. Readipop specialises in work with young people. Readipop is based in Reading, UK. We deliver local projects via our host studio Plug n Play Studios as well as working across Berkshire and the south of England.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

    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
    31/03/23*£417£424£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/22£285£262£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/21*£489£306£183n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£400£389£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£372£389£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18*£289£289£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17*£286£255£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16?£211£200£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/15£179£217£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/14*£162£223£-61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/13*£239£195£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/12£200£195£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/11*£107£96£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/10£87£97£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/06/09£80£65£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 16 years
    (21 years as a company)

    www.readipop.co.uk

    into@readipop.co.uk

    01183272442

    Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Bracknell Forest, Hampshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • The General Public/Mankind

    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
    DCMS£186,656
    The Blagrave Trust£122,800
    Youth Music£100,000
    National Lottery Heritage Fund£83,290
    BBC Children in Need£30,500
    Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£19,120
    Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation£15,100
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Blagrave Trust - Regional Partnership Grants
    £62,400 31/07/2023
    Music and mentoring
    National Lottery Community Fund - Readipop Studios
    £10,000 10/03/2023
    This project will support the group to improve its facility that offers studios to benefit over 200 people who use the space every week and over 1000 people who benefit from the community programmes ....more
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Readipop
    £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’
    Department for Work and Pensions - READIPOP
    £3,284 01/04/2022
    The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
    Department for Work and Pensions - READIPOP
    £3,284 01/04/2022
    The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Readipop
    £83,290 20/10/2021
    X0X - ELECTRONIC MUSIC HERITAGE
    Youth Music - AAA - Access All Areas
    £100,000 30/09/2021
    AAA - Access All Areas
    The Blagrave Trust - Music and mentoring
    £60,400 08/07/2021
    Readipop runs a programme of artist development, offering young graduates of its programmes an opportunity to develop their leadership and music skills by working with others and gaining meaningful ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 12/02/2021
    Readipop Studios
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Readipop
    £30,000 16/12/2020
    This project will provide an open access music youth club to children and young people living in low income households. Young people will be more able to express themselves, improve their confidence ....more
    DCMS - Readipop
    £91,656 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 - Readipop Sustainability Programme
    £95,000 01/04/2020
    To support Arts and Culture throughout England
    National Lottery Community Fund - Readipop Relocation
    £9,120 03/01/2020
    2
    The project will use funding to relocate to a new premises that is fully accessible to the wider community. The project aims to provide an improved space to increase capacity for new activities.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Readipop
    £15,100 26/11/2019
    36
    Access All Areas
    Youth Music - Readipop AAA - Access All Areas
    £99,492 21/05/2018
    Readipop AAA - Access All Areas
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Readipop
    £30,000 13/11/2017
    36
    This project will provide after-school music workshops and recording sessions for disadvantaged children and young people. Beneficiaries will become more confident, develop personal skills and ....more
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Readipop
    £40,000 22/10/2014
    Reading on tour: Reading's cultural heritage trail
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Readipop
    £30,000 21/05/2013
    Towards core costs to develop strategic networks and a collaborative, shared approach to work with regional partners.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 47-66
    • ANNA CODLING Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Customer Service & Business Excellence Manager
    • CHRIS BLOOMFIELD (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Local Government Officer
    • CHERYL HARPER-DUFFIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Charity Enterprises
    • SOPHIA PLOWRIGHT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Technical Support Consultant
    • TIMOTHY GREAVES Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Studio Manager And Pa
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/05/2008, number: 1123962
    • Registered at Companies House on 19/06/2003, number: 04803838
    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
    15 returns made; AR23: 103 days late, AR21: 3 days late, AR18: 2 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR14: 11 days late, AR13: 21 days late, AR11: 2 days late,
    Main office

    Readipop Ltd
    15 Trafford Road
    READING
    RG1 8JP

    Objectives

    TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR MUSIC FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING STUDIO SPACE AND FACILITIES AND Y ORGANISING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES WHICH IMPROVE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE ARTS, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE CREATIVE AND TECHNICAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE CREATION OF MUSIC AND ASSOCIATED ART FORMS, THEREBY DEVELOPING ARTISTIC APPRECIATION.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NATIONAL

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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