Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

STAPLES TRUST 

This is a grant making charity, you can view its grants here
Grant making.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 32 years

www.sfct.org.uk

info@sfct.org.uk

02074100330

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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
05/04/23£301£605£-304n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/22£263£515£-252n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/21£323£453£-131n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/20£424£802£-379n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/19£483£497£-14n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/18£533£346£187£0£14,030£692.4100
05/04/17£487£734£-247£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/16£513£253£260£0£13,140£-13-0.6100
05/04/15£522£848£-326£5£13,620£-363-5.110
05/04/14£505£667£-162£5£13,091£-126-2.310
05/04/13£487£521£-34£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/12£501£343£158£5£11,864£-75-2.610
05/04/11£443£516£-73£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/10£441£522£-81£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/09£536£767£-231£5£10,264£-206-3.210
05/04/08£610£694£-84£5£12,651£-33-0.600
05/04/07£510£351£160£4£14,294£90.310
05/04/06*£453£471£-18£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/05£526£753£-227£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/04£543£483£60£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Austria, Bangladesh, France, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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
Staples Trust - Core costs
£50,000 22/03/2022
Core costs
Staples Trust - Living Cultures Project
£162,290 22/03/2022
Living Cultures Project
Staples Trust - New heating system installation
£5,000 18/11/2021
Towards the costs of installing a new heating system
Staples Trust - Core costs
£20,000 22/10/2021
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Core costs
£5,000 22/10/2021
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Core costs
£2,500 22/10/2021
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service
£2,500 22/10/2021
Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service
Staples Trust - Towards the build of a new cricket pavilion
£5,000 22/10/2021
Towards the build of a new cricket pavilion
Staples Trust - Towards core costs
£5,000 14/05/2020
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Towards core costs
£5,000 14/05/2020
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Towards core costs
£5,000 14/05/2020
Towards core costs
Staples Trust - Towards the appeal for funds to support the Art Museum in Zagreb
£2,053 13/04/2020
Towards the appeal for funds to support the Art Museum in Zagreb
Staples Trust - Towards its core costs.
£5,000 24/03/2020
Towards its core costs.
Staples Trust - Towards costs associated with the Cambridge London Engagement Series.
£12,796 28/01/2020
Towards costs associated with the Cambridge London Engagement Series committee dinners.
Staples Trust - Towards the replacement costs of one of its vehicles.
£3,000 17/10/2019
Towards the replacement costs of one of its vehicles.
Staples Trust - Towards an impact study in the Yurupari territory in the Columbian amazon.
£10,000 17/10/2019
Towards an impact study examining the environmental, social and cultural effect of illegal gold mining in the Yuruparí territory in the Columbian amazon.
Staples Trust - To support local communities to access legal expertise.
£5,000 17/10/2019
To support local communities to access legal expertise to use the law of consultation to protect their land rights due to mining.
Staples Trust - Towards the cost of a production of the Trojans.
£5,000 01/10/2019
Towards the cost of a production of the Trojans at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Staples Trust - Photographing, updating etc and reconciling with the archives
£3,800 03/07/2019
Towards supporting the work of photographing, documenting and reconciling the archives within its Maasai Collection.
Staples Trust - 'Living Cultures Project'
£40,000 20/03/2019
Towards its 'Living Cultures Project'.
Staples Trust - Core costs
£80,000 14/03/2019
Towards core costs.
Staples Trust - Recovery Toolkit Programme
£5,000 14/03/2019
Towards the delivery of its Recovery Toolkit Programme which supports women who have suffered from domestic violence.
Staples Trust - Work in supporting elderly and disabled women - domestic violence
£6,000 14/03/2019
Towards its work in supporting elderly and disabled women experiencing domestic violence.
Staples Trust - JMS and PF discretionary - match-funding campaign - Tibet Match
£500 14/03/2019
Towards its annual match-funding campaign Tibet Match.
Staples Trust - Syrian refugees work in Glasgow
£5,000 22/11/2018
Towards the costs of its work with Syrian refugees in Glasgow.
Staples Trust - Artisan Accelerator programme
£20,000 29/10/2018
Towards its Artisan Accelerator programme.
Staples Trust - Phase two redevelopment works
£20,000 18/10/2018
Towards the cost of its phase two redevelopment works.
Staples Trust - Human rights - Guatemala
£12,671 18/10/2018
To further support communities in Guatemala to assert their human rights.
Staples Trust - Core costs
£3,000 18/10/2018
Towards core costs.
Staples Trust - Core costs
£20,000 14/05/2018
Towards core costs to enable marginalised indigenous communities to represent themselves on critical issues through a ground breaking network of community media hubs and video collectives, locally ....more
Staples Trust - Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship Programme
£100,000 18/09/2017
Towards the Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship Programme.
Staples Trust - Core costs - work to protect women at risk of domestic abuse
£4,000 16/03/2017
Towards core costs to support work to protect women at risk of domestic abuse on the island.
Staples Trust - Core costs - supporting rough sleepers in Oxford
£9,000 14/03/2017
Towards core costs in supporting rough sleepers in Oxford.
Staples Trust - Core costs - tackling child exploitation and sexual abuse
£4,500 14/03/2017
Towards core costs to support work tackling child exploitation and sexual abuse on the island.
Staples Trust - Campaign to acquire Watlington Hoard
£10,000 27/01/2017
Towards the campaign to acquire the Watlington Hoard.
Staples Trust - To build capacity for artisan businesses and to expand services
£20,116 29/11/2016
To help build capacity for artisan businesses, and to expand its services.
Staples Trust - General donation
£6,511 30/06/2015
General donation.
Staples Trust - Appeal to refurbish the Library
£5,000 18/03/2015
Towards the appeal to refurbish the Library.
Staples Trust - Ashmolean Endowment Fund
£100,000 08/10/2014
Towards the Ashmolean Endowment Fund.
Staples Trust - Core costs
£2,000 08/10/2014
Towards core costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/04/1992, number: 1010656
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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; AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

THE PEAK
5 WILTON ROAD
LONDON
SW1V 1AP

Objectives

TO OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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