This report aims to enable management and trustees to assess their charity’s structure, governance and monitoring procedures against comparable charities and to share best practice in the sector.

The report includes data compiled from the 2019 and 2020 accounts and trustees’ annual reports of over 100 charitable organisations within the sector. We have reviewed a broad range of benchmarks including areas of governance, operations and finances which, in our experience, are most important in achieving good financial governance.

My thanks go to the Arts and Culture team at haysmacintyre for their assistance in compiling this report. We hope you find it useful and informative, and that it stimulates discussion within the sector.

Please click below to access the 2021 Arts and Culture Benchmarking Report.