Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

THE COMPANY

The Company is an arts organisation that works primarily through theatre, specialising in site-specific, site-responsive and community led projects. The Company also develops projects alongside small groups of people with different needs, creating plays that reflect the participants' lives and aspirations. The Company works in the south east of England.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/08/23£26£9£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22£42£78£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£40£16£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£49£43£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£36£41£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18£30£26£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£30£17£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£51£50£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.thecompanyuk.com

stephen@thecompanyuk.com

0771 265 0568

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to The Company
£4,000 14/07/2017
9
The Company creates site-specific theatre in Kent and Sussex, with professional actors, community groups, and groups with different needs. Funding was provided towards the costs of running a project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Working title: Supporting Mental Health - Theatre & Film Project
£4,992 14/06/2017
12
This project will run workshops for young people experiencing mental health challenges and develop a play about their experiences, which will be performed to staff in secondary schools, family and ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHRISTOPHER SHEFFIELD Appointed: 2015
  • CHRISTOPHER GEOFFREY DIXON Appointed: 2022
  • CHRISTOPHER RONALD DIXON Appointed: 2024
  • MARY O'KEEFFE Appointed: 2022
  • SALLY ANN JAYASEKERA Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/08/2015, number: 1163093
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

WHITEHOUSE FARM
NOVINGTON LANE
EAST CHILTINGTON
LEWES
BN7 3AU

Objectives

TO IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND ADVANCE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF ART, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN PERFORMANCE ART INCLUDING DRAMATIC, MUSICAL, PERFORMANCE, LITERARY AND VISUAL ARTS, THROUGH CREATING LIVE AND RECORDED PRODUCTIONS IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS INCLUDING RELATED HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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