We spend as much of our income as we can in ways that ‘lever’ money from other sources e.g. First Access tuition subsidies: we spent £14k and levered a further £68k from schools which went directly to Associate providers.
We continue to use some funding as an investment – to develop and test new models and approaches that can become sustainable in the longer term. An example of this was supporting the trial of some singing and phonics work with Wiltshire primary schools in partnership with the School Effectiveness Team.
We get money to people and places where it’s most needed – hence the ongoing need to build an increasingly credible picture of what is (and isn’t) going on, and where there is a needed for us to intervene. An example of this is our subsidy schemes, and we’ve increased the amount we spent by 35%. In the year ahead we’ll also be providing CPD for clusters of schools, based on what they’ve told us they need.
Notes to accompany the figures in the chart…
We are required to report our finances to Arts Council England by financial year (rather than academic year which is what the statistics in our annual report cover), which is how we present the figures in the chart.
The amount of the Arts Council grant for that period was £612,616 and we received an additional £23,204 generated from instrument hire and other work.
We received no Wiltshire Council funding during that period.