Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

PERSONA ARTS

a charity with purposes of providing opera and choral arts to the diverse communities of the West Midlands
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

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 ?

Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£26£2£23
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

www.personaarts.org.uk

info@personaarts.org.uk

07599 170762

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton,
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation - Grant to Persona Arts
£1,000 18/01/2024
12
To support the ocst of a BME-led production of The Flying Dutchman opera in Birmingham

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BYRON JACKSON FRSA Appointed: 2021
  • JAMES OLDHAM Appointed: 2021
  • JULIA HANDELMAN-SMITH FRSA Appointed: 2024
  • TONI PERRY-THOMAS Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/12/2021, number: 1197297
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
1 returns made; all on time
Main office

BVSC
Latham House
33-34 Paradise Street
BIRMINGHAM
B1 2AJ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF OPERA, CHORAL AND CLASSICAL MUSIC, IN THE COMMUNITIES OF THE WEST MIDLANDS AUTHORITIES, BIRMINGHAM,COVENTRY, DUDLEY, SANDWELL, SOLIHULL, WALSALL AND WOLVERHAMPTON BY PROMOTING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ARTS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE STAGING OF PERFORMANCES, MUSICAL ACTIVITIES AND PRESENTATIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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