Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

WARE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED 

An arts centre in a heritage building with activities including the performing arts and community spaces. Conservation of a historic listed building.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
28/02/23*£218£143£75n/an/an/an/an/a40
28/02/22£201£151£49n/an/an/an/an/a50
28/02/21*£149£152£-3n/an/an/an/an/a50
29/02/20£180£174£6n/an/an/an/an/a50
28/02/19*£62£62£0n/an/an/an/an/a50
28/02/18£41£62£-21£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£36£20£16£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/16£22£14£8£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15*£19£13£7£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14£23£19£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/13£17£15£2£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/12£17£17£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/11£13£15£-1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/10£26£23£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/09£14£14£0£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/08£11£13£-2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/07£11£8£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/06£10£6£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/05£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/04£5£4£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 45 years

www.southernmaltings.co.uk

info@southernmaltings.co.uk

07864 941546

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£39,000
Power to Change£20,000
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£12,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - The SM Cafe and meeting space
£2,000 17/01/2023
4
Grant to Ware Arts Centre Limited (t/a Southern Maltings)
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - 70 years of history celebrated!
£10,000 29/03/2022
Grant to Ware Arts Centre Limited (t/a Southern Maltings)
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating one building with access to all
£10,000 23/04/2021
The funding will be used to create a level corridor allowing level access throughout the ground floor of a former Malting in an area of Hertfordshire which is now a community arts centre.The project ....more
Power to Change - Renewal - Ware Arts Centre Limited
£20,000 18/12/2020
Grant to Renewal - Ware Arts Centre Limited
DCMS - CRF20 Ware Arts Centre (Southern Maltings)
£39,000 14/10/2020
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
Power to Change - Ware Arts Centre Ltd
£10,000 02/07/2019
Grant to Ware Arts Centre Ltd
National Lottery Community Fund - Southern Maltings Community Engagement
£10,000 23/05/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to run a series of activities for different people in the community to help improve a variety of issues and to bring people together.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 57-76
  • JOHN WING Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/1979, number: 276998
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/10/1978, number: 01393436
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 1 days late, AR21: 1 days late, AR19: 12 days late, AR15: 10 days late,
Main office

Southern Maltings
Kibes Lane
Ware
Hertfordshire
SG12 7BS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS INCLUDING DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, MUSIC, DRAWING, PAINTING, GRAPHICS, PRINTMAKING, PHOTOGRAPHING, CERAMICS, SCULPTURE, CARVING AND CRAFT HANDIWORK AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLIS SHCMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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