Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

TESO DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

We work with the christian churches at the Teso region of North East Uganda to provide relief of poverty, hunger and ill health through the provision of clean water, the improvement of livelihoods through training and support for improved agriculture and the development of community self help and leadership through training of community groups as well as the advancement of the Christian religion.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are only 3 trustees

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
31/03/23£161£108£53n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£134£115£18n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/21£143£145£-2n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/20*£106£121£-14n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/19£124£97£27n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/18£99£119£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£169£158£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£125£121£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£89£104£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£92£79£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£90£100£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£216£209£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£104£101£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£169£180£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£197£200£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£221£181£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£184£185£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£121£100£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£83£79£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£124£123£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 33 years

www.teso.org.uk

admin@teso.org.uk

08007313460

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Christian religious associations
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England, Uganda,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 volunteers

Who's supporting 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A modular synthetic biology pipeline for the engineering of next generation sustainable and bioactive dyes
£48,903 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=72672
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Dual action antiviral dyes to support the fight against COVID-19
£26,255 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=74915
HM Revenue & Customs - SME Brexit Support Fund
£1,950 22/07/2021
Training Grant provided for Customs training purposes

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/10/1991, number: 1005139
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 247 days late, AR16: 11 days late, AR07: 27 days late,
Main office

5 North Villiers Street
LEAMINGTON SPA
CV32 5XZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE IN UGANDA PARTICULARLY THE TESO DISTRICT AND ELSEWHERE (1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

Defined Area of Benefit:

UGANDA PARTICULARLY THE TESO DISTRICT AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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