Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 6

Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 9

UNDERWIRED

We aim to remove physical or financial barriers preventing access to theatre. Specialising in interactive family musicals we place children with or without disabilities at the heart of our work. We run a fully inclusive theatre skills club, engaging children with disabilities or from a disadvantaged background. We offer respite for parents/carers, and work opportunities for underrepresented groups

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

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 was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit
05/04/23	£70	£82	£-12
05/04/22	£77	£4	£74
05/04/21	£21	£4	£17
05/04/20	£92	£78	£14

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.underwiredproductions.com

07958743569

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Practical support, advice & companionship

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

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

National Lottery Community Fund	£95,000
Sussex Community Foundation	£10,000
True Colours Trust	£5,000
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards a multisensory musical
£5,000	07/03/2024 12	Towards a multisensory musical.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to UnderWired Productions
£5,000	14/07/2023	Funding was provided for staff, production and core costs.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	28/04/2023	towards production costs of 'Rainbow Rae'
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusive Easter & Christmas Musicals
£95,000	30/09/2021	The funding will be used to host multi-sensory Christmas musicals to be shown to audiences from predominantly low socio-economic backgrounds and young disabled people and their carers. The shows will ....more The funding will be used to host multi-sensory Christmas musicals to be shown to audiences from predominantly low socio-economic backgrounds and young disabled people and their carers. The shows will follow a pilot show in 2018 which was attended by audiences of 2716 people with 945 children from Eastbourne schools in attendance. Each of the performances creates a sensory experience utilising smell taste sight sound and touch to communicate with disabled children irrespective of their additional needs. Live music accompanies each show creating sound vibrations which are felt physically.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to UnderWired Theatre
£5,000	16/07/2021 4	Funding was provided towards the cost of developing an inclusive muilti-sensory musical for disabled children and their families, disadvantaged families.
Tudor Trust - Grant to UnderWired
£2,000	03/10/2019	as a staff grant towards the core costs of a charity that delivers theatre productions for marginalised communities

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

GREGORY STEPHEN COOKE Appointed: 2021

MARK NICHOLAS HOWROYD PRICE Appointed: 2020

MICHELLE EVELYN GARRETT Appointed: 2022

PAUL NATHAN MARTIN (Chair) Appointed: 2020

SOPHIE HAZLEWOOD Appointed: 2021

VICTORIA COOKE Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/12/2018, number: 1180997

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

4 Astaire Avenue
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN22 8UN

Objectives

The advancement of the arts and access to the arts, and the promotion of equality and diversity by:a) Actively seeking to support comprehensive access to live theatre and the arts, particularly in communities where there is limited opportunity. b) Empowering and providing opportunities for children with disabilities and / or from disadvantaged backgrounds. c) Aiming to remove physical and financial barriers to enable those from disadvantaged backgrounds to access live theatre and the arts. d) In meeting the above aims we will seek to provide opportunities and experience for people from underrepresented groups looking to work in the arts.

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