Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Multiple Deficits: -2

Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 7

THE COMMON PURPOSE CHARITABLE TRUST

CPCT oversees the activities of CPUK, CP International,CP Customised Ltd, CP Global Customised and CP Asia Pacific. It safeguards brands, intellectual property, web domain names and trademarks, holds the overall strategic plan and supports the alumni. Our educational courses give people the inspiration, skills and connections to become better leaders at work and in society.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/07/23		£5,488	£6,192	£-704	£0	£882	£443	0.9	70	0
31/07/22		£5,369	£5,341	£28	£0	£1,586	£1,143	2.6	83	0
31/07/21		£4,375	£4,260	£115	£0	£1,558	£1,108	3.1	75	0
31/07/20		£4,728	£4,996	£-268	£0	£1,443	£667	1.6	43	0
31/07/19	*	£6,301	£5,981	£320	£0	£1,711	£1,011	2	69	0
31/07/18	*	£5,564	£4,941	£623	£0	£1,391	£963	2.3	64	0
31/07/17		£5,011	£4,741	£269	£0	£768	£559	1.4	60	0
31/07/16	*	£4,741	£5,323	£-582	£0	£498	£467	1.1	68	0
31/07/15		£5,080	£4,901	£179	£59	£1,080	£904	2.2	73	0
31/07/14		£4,534	£4,253	£281	£65	£900	£818	2.3	68	0
31/07/13		£4,226	£4,440	£-214	£61	£619	£543	1.5	67	0
31/07/12		£5,016	£5,112	£-96	£60	£833	£267	0.6	84	0
31/07/11		£5,833	£5,562	£271	£60	£929	£93	0.2	107	0
31/07/10		£5,875	£5,914	£-39	£72	£659	£610	1.2	113	0
31/07/09		£6,575	£6,574	£0	£765	£698	£698	1.3	125	0
31/07/08		£6,711	£7,052	£-341	£48	£697	£697	1.2	145	0
31/07/07		£7,562	£7,440	£122	£39	£1,038	£828	1.3	135	0
31/07/06		£6,418	£6,494	£-77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/05	*	£6,326	£6,363	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/04		£6,188	£6,007	£181	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 22%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 74%
Liabilities/Income: 45%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 50%
Reserves/Spending: 0.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 31 years

www.commonpurpose.org

info@commonpurpose.org

02076088100

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Throughout England And Wales, Turkey, United States,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£499,751
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£10,000
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£10,000
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Common Purpose Charitable Trust
£249,881	12/12/2023	Nature Recovery Academy - North of England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Common Purpose Charitable Trust
£249,870	28/11/2023	Nature Recovery Academy - Scotland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Common Purpose Charitable Trust
£5,000	15/12/2022	Towards the organisations charitable activities in northeast england via the newcastle 150 legacy programme
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Common Purpose Charitable Trust
£5,000	03/02/2022	The organisations charitable activities in Newcastle
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Legacy
£5,000	09/03/2021	To enable Common Purpose to run a Leaders of Tomorrow programme for x100 young people.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the organisations charitable activities in the North East of England
£5,000	11/02/2021	the organisations charitable activities in the North East of England
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - furthering the Charity's objects
£5,000	22/01/2020	furthering the Charity's objects
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - UK101
£10,000	10/09/2019	UK101
Barrow Cadbury Trust - UK101
£10,000	02/08/2019 48	Seed-fund a free on-line leadership course for young leaders
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Common Purpose UK
£10,000	01/08/2019 12	Towards UK101, an online leadership resource, connecting young people across different locations and youth programmes
The Blagrave Trust - UK 101 (Youth leadership)
£10,000	16/07/2019	Development of youth leadership with an online campaign
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - UK101
£10,000	09/07/2019 48	To co-create and co-develop a free online leadership course with and for young people.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Meridian course bursaries 2018
£4,800	20/10/2017 3	To support leaders of two grantee organisations in Birmingham/Black Country to attend the Common Purpose Meridian course.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Meridian course sponsorship 2017
£3,500	09/01/2017 6	To support two VCS leaders in Birmingham/Black Country to attend the Common Purpose Meridian course
Comic Relief - A blended learning leadership programme for the Diaspora ChangeMakers Alumni
£49,000	13/05/2016 24	This proposal is for a second phase of the CGI Changemakers diaspora leadership programme. It is intended to provide further leadership training for 100 African diaspora leaders who are committed to achieving social impact in the UK and ....more This proposal is for a second phase of the CGI Changemakers diaspora leadership programme. It is intended to provide further leadership training for 100 African diaspora leaders who are committed to achieving social impact in the UK and international development contexts and to establish them as an ongoing network. The bespoke leadership training developed by Common Purpose will be used for other non-African diaspora communities in the future and an online Changemakers platform will be hosted in Common Purpose’s alumni platform beyond this grant. It is recommended for funding as it is in line with Comic Relief and DFID’s commitment to supporting the diaspora on a long term basis and represents good value for money.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Birmingham Leaders 2015-16
£3,500	14/12/2015	To support two VCS leaders in Birmingham/Black Country to attend the Common Purpose Meridian course
Comic Relief - 2016 Grand Challenge Pilot
£70,000	15/07/2015 8	A two-city pilot of the ‘Grand Challenge’, which seeks to crowdsource answers to the question of ‘What Would Make Civic Participation Soar in a City?’ The gathered insights, learnings and ideas which will be distilled in a report. A ....more A two-city pilot of the ‘Grand Challenge’, which seeks to crowdsource answers to the question of ‘What Would Make Civic Participation Soar in a City?’ The gathered insights, learnings and ideas which will be distilled in a report. A framework will be created that will help cities adopt the recommendations.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 51-71

DAVID WILLIAM GRACE (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Accountant

JANIS SANDERS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor

JONATHAN EDWARD DONNER Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Leadership And Development Consultant

LYNNA CHANDRA Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

MARK LINDER Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Marketing

PETER KULLOI Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Fin Adviser

PROF CHRISTINE ENNEW Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Professor

SHUVO SAHA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

SANJEEV GUPTA Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Corporate Finance Advisor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/07/1993, number: 1023384
Registered at Companies House on 29/06/1993, number: 02832875

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

04/01/2024 - Asset transfer in from COMMON PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL
29/01/2024 - Asset transfer in from COMMON PURPOSE UK
Linked charity: COMMON PURPOSE UK
Linked charity: COMMON PURPOSE UK

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR19: 20 days late, AR18: 58 days late, AR16: 61 days late, AR05: 231 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from COMMON PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL on 04/01/2024
Asset transfer in from COMMON PURPOSE UK on 29/01/2024

Main office

Monmouth House
38-40 Artillery Lane
London
E1 7LS

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO EDUCATE MEN AND WOMEN FROM A BROAD RANGE OF GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ETHNIC INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IN CONSTITUTIONAL CIVIC ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CIVIL AND SOCIAL AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION SHALL AUTHORIZE OR BE DEEMED TO AUTHORISE THE CARRYING ON OF ANY ACTIVITY FOR ANY PURPOSES SAVE THOSE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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