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The Newtown Cultural Project Limited

49 /100

Clarity score

Poor

Historical financial rating & register information

49/100 Clarity Score · 2 stars · Charity Commission filings · How we score

Register checked 4 October 2026 · latest accounts 2015

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Is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited a good charity?

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited scores 49/100 (2 stars, Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2015 (£1.5m total income, 91% cause spend, 3-yr avg). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown.

Income

£1.5m

Accounts 2015-03-31

Spending

£1.7m

Accounts 2015-03-31

Charitable activities

91%

3-yr avg · share of spending

Accounts filing

Missing

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What does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited do?

The Drum is Europe's leading Intercultural performing and visual arts organisation and venue. The Drum plays a leading role in presenting world-class performing and visual arts in the West Midlands region in partnership with and for all communities, including the hard to reach and communities from the Caribbean, Africa, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Latin America, North America, England, Europe.

Activities reported by the charity on the official register · extract . This is separate from the accounts data used for its rating.

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How much does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited raise and spend?

Accounts period 2014-04-01 to 2015-03-31 · Source: Charity Commission filings

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited revenue and expenses for 2015
Category Amount % of spend
Total income £1.5m —
Total expenditure £1.7m —
Charitable activities £1.5m 92%
Reported governance £7k 0%

Governance can already be allocated within other expenditure categories. It is not a separate measure of all administration costs; do not add these rows without checking the accounts notes.

What changed in The Newtown Cultural Project Limited’s latest accounts?

Reported totals for 2015 compared with 2014. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.

Income change
+6.0%
£1.4m → £1.5m
Spending change
+6.1%
£1.6m → £1.7m
Charitable activities share
+0.0 pp
92% → 92% · percentage points

These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.

92%On charitable activities

Where does the money go?

Latest accounts (2015) · £1.7m spent

  • Charitable activities92%
  • Governance0%
  • Remaining expenditure8%

From the annual return

What does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited pay its staff, and where does its money come from?

Answers The Newtown Cultural Project Limited gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 March 2015, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.

Where does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's money come from?

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reported £1.5m total income for the year ending 31 March 2015. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.1m (76%), charitable activities £213k (14%), trading and fundraising events £148k (10%).

  • Donations and legacies £1.1m · 76%
  • Charitable activities (fees and contracts) £213k · 14%
  • Trading and fundraising events £148k · 10%
  • Other income £424 · 0%
  • Investments £98 · 0%

Cash at year end: £140k · unrestricted funds: £144k · restricted funds: £1.6m. Restricted funds can only be spent on purposes set by the donor.

Does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited receive government funding?

The annual return does not answer this question for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited. Check the accounts for grants and contracts from public bodies.

In its annual return for the year ending 31 March 2015, The Newtown Cultural Project Limited says it raises funds from the public.

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reports a trading subsidiary — a company it owns that trades (for example shops or merchandise) and passes profits to the charity.

Can I claim Gift Aid, and are the trustees paid?

The register records The Newtown Cultural Project Limited as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration. Work out your Gift Aid

Registration details

Registered as a charity
Company number
02959127 (Companies House)
Also known as
The Drum
Where it says it operates
Birmingham City

Source: Charity Commission register and annual return data, Open Government Licence v3.0. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.

How have The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's finances changed over five years?

Income fell 17% from £1.8m in 2011 to £1.5m in 2015; spending was £1.7m in 2015.

£0 £500k £1.0m £1.5m £2.0m 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Income 2011: £1.8m Spending 2011: £1.9m Cause spend 2011: £1.7m Income 2012: £1.9m Spending 2012: £1.8m Cause spend 2012: £1.6m Income 2013: £1.5m Spending 2013: £1.9m Cause spend 2013: £1.7m Income 2014: £1.4m Spending 2014: £1.6m Cause spend 2014: £1.5m Income 2015: £1.5m Spending 2015: £1.7m Cause spend 2015: £1.5m
  • Income
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  • Cause spend
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited income and spending by accounts year
Year Income Spending Charitable activities
2015 £1.5m £1.7m £1.5m
2014 £1.4m £1.6m £1.5m
2013 £1.5m £1.9m £1.7m
2012 £1.9m £1.8m £1.6m
2011 £1.8m £1.9m £1.7m

Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings

How does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited compare?

The share of each group scoring at or below The Newtown Cultural Project Limited, including tied scores. A group matched on cause, income band and accounts year appears when at least ten records qualify. Broader groups below may mix reporting periods and operating models. Groups include this charity; percentiles measure our financial rating, not impact.

Income band (£1m–£5m) 3rdpercentile

Scores at or above 3% of 2,720 charities in its income band · 49/100 vs 78 peer average.

Arts & culture charities 7thpercentile

Scores at or above 7% of 617 charities in this cause · 49/100 vs 73 peer average.

How does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited compare, and where else can you look?

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Evidence and interpretation

What the evidence says about The Newtown Cultural Project Limited

In 2015, reported income was £1,480,034 and expenditure was £1,684,082. Expenditure exceeded income by £204,048. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.

More financial context

Income rose 6.0% compared with 2014. Read the accounts notes for restricted grants, legacies and one-off receipts before treating the movement as a trend.

Calculated from our dated accounts dataset, refreshed 2026-09-06. This is not an audit or a manual review of every filing. Original register and accounts · How calculations work.

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Who it supports and how to access its work

Reported beneficiaries: Children/young People; People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin.

How it works: Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space; Other Charitable Activities.

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Classifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-04. Register contact and activity details · Website listed for this charity

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Results and impact evidence

We have not added a source-checked programme outcome for this charity. That is a gap in this profile, not evidence that the charity has no impact. Its annual report may contain results that have not been assessed here.

Reported grants to institutions: £0 (2015-03-31). This is spending reported in the annual return, not a measure of beneficiary outcomes or an open grant opportunity. It may already be included in charitable expenditure. Check the source accounts.

What these results can tell you

Counts of services delivered describe activity. They do not by themselves establish lasting change, what would have happened without the programme, or cost-effectiveness. Results with different definitions, populations or years should not be ranked against each other.

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What is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's Beacon report?

Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.

Accountability & Transparency

Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.

38/100

Accountability & Transparency metrics for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited
Metric Score Value
Filing history (5 years)

No recorded lateness in available history = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more or unknown status = 0 pts. Missing data is not proof of late filing.

 0% 0/15 pts
Trustee oversight

Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three).

 100% 11 trustees · 15/15 pts
Declared policies

Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return.

 0% 0/10 pts

Financial Health

Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.

80/100

Financial Health metrics for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited
Metric Score Value
Reserves (months of expenditure)

3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years = 0 pts. Reserves are not necessarily cash; needs vary by operating model.

 100% 10 months · 15/15 pts
Income stability / growth

+20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between.

 50% 5/10 pts · 3-year average
Liabilities to assets

0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt.

 80% 9% · 4/5 pts

Financial Efficiency

How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.

50/100

Financial Efficiency metrics for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited
Metric Score Value
Program expense ratio

90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below.

 100% 91% · 10/10 pts (3-year average)
Fundraising efficiency

≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income).

 0% Not stated · 0/10 pts

Community Support

Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff.

0/100

Community Support metrics for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited
Metric Score Value
Volunteer-to-staff ratio

Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between.

 0% 0 volunteers / 28 staff · 0/10 pts

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What trust indicators does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited have?

Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.

  • Accounts filed on time

    Filing status: missing

  • Trustee board size (3–12)

    11 trustees on the Charity Commission register

  • Workforce on register

    28 employees · 0 volunteers (0:1 volunteer-to-staff)

Fundraising Regulator

Status not yet checked

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Official register

Reg 1042218

Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.

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Trustees & officers

  • Shaun Cope
  • Professor Michael Durman
  • Councillor Paulette Hamilton
  • Dr Upkar Singh Pardesi OBE
  • Sukhi Saini since 2013
  • Canon Sharon Palmer since 2013
  • Joel Loyd Graham-Blake since 2013
  • Khembe Clarke since 2014
  • Leslie Fairclough since 2014
  • Andrew Peter Donaldson since 2014
  • Rita Helen McLean since 2013

How reliable is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's data?

Source
Charity Commission (England & Wales)
Accounts year
2015
Filing date
—
Data refreshed

Low confidence — key filing data unavailable

Scores reflect the accounts in our dated data extract. The live register may contain newer filings. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact.

Check the current register entry · Report a data correction

Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 1042218. Method version: 1.1. View method changes.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Open Government Licence v3.0 .

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  2. 2. Read the accounts in context

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How we score charities +

The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically.

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Accountability & Transparency

Scored from filings

40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10).

Financial Health

Scored from filings

30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises).

Financial Efficiency

Scored from filings

20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below).

Community Support

Scored from filings

10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio.

Overall score

Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.

Is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited a good charity? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited scores 49 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 91% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are missing. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.

Is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited a legitimate charity? +

The register data used for this profile lists The Newtown Cultural Project Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1042218). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1042218&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.

What is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity number? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity number is 1042218. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.

What is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity rating? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited scores 49 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.

Does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited have reviews and complaints? +

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

How much of my donation reaches The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 91% of The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.

What are The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's overheads? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's recent UK regulator filings do not disclose a fundraising or governance cost split, so no official overhead percentage is available. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

How much income does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited receive? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reported £1.5m total income in its 2015 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Are The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's accounts up to date? +

Filing status: missing. CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Where is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited based? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B6 4UU). It tells the regulator it operates in Birmingham City, with a focus on arts & culture.

Where does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's money come from? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reported £1.5m total income for the year ending 31 March 2015. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.1m (76%), charitable activities £213k (14%), trading and fundraising events £148k (10%).

Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +

The register records The Newtown Cultural Project Limited as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.

When was The Newtown Cultural Project Limited registered as a charity? +

The Newtown Cultural Project Limited was entered on the register on 21 November 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02959127).

How does CharityCompare score The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.

How often is this page updated? +

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's most recent accounts cover 2015. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.