Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

THE GREEN ALLIANCE TRUST

Green Alliance carry out much of their work on a project basis, conducted through research and meetings, involving a unique network of contacts across sectors many of whom are members of Green Alliance. We provide space for debating new issues and presenting the opinions of all sides. The results of our work are disseminated through publications, the media and our website.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
31/03/23£2,973£2,856£118£175£1,746£7683.2410
31/03/22£2,754£2,367£387£110£1,628£5762.9380
31/03/21£2,209£1,812£397£113£1,241£4573260
31/03/20£1,948£1,755£194£57£844£3782.6260
31/03/19£1,605£1,579£26£36£650£3692.8250
31/03/18£1,584£1,612£-28£34£624£3632.7220
31/03/17£1,200£1,495£-295£25£652£3813.1250
31/03/16£1,458£1,274£183£21£947£5675.3230
31/03/15£1,082£1,158£-75£41£764£5405.6180
31/03/14£1,216£1,063£153£41£839£4975.6200
31/03/13£1,051£965£86£39£686£4035150
31/03/12£1,163£1,096£67£42£600£3904.3150
31/03/11£1,236£1,244£-8£44£533£3343.2160
31/03/10£1,419£1,229£189£53£540£3093120
31/03/09£870£821£49£123£351£1812.7110
31/03/08£807£744£63£73£302£1652.7100
31/03/07£693£708£-15£56£239£1462.5100
31/03/06£729£643£86n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£692£638£54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£527£514£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 17%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 44%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 4.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 30 years

www.green-alliance.org.uk

jbaker@green-alliance.org.uk

02072337433

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
Samworth Foundation£728,000
Esmee Fairbairn£455,600
John Ellerman Foundation£220,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£219,920
Gower Street£110,828
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Ellerman Foundation - This grant will go towards core funding of our sustainable resources theme
£120,000 30/05/2024
36
Towards core funding of their sustainable resources theme
Gower Street - Methane Work in UK
£14,864 01/05/2023
Methane work in UK
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£200,000 29/03/2023
Towards core costs to protect and enhance environmental governance and secure green trade policy in the UK
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£6,600 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 19/08/2022
Who are we listening to? Designing socially just climate policy
Gower Street - UK Methane (in collaboration with Green Alliance)
£32,501 21/03/2022
Raising the salience of methane in UK decarbonisation
Gower Street - UK Methane (in collaboration with Clean Air Task Force)
£13,463 21/03/2022
Raising the salience of methane in UK decarbonisation
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£300,000 01/01/2022
To fund their climate leadership programme and sector convening
Gower Street - Government’s Innovation Agenda
£50,000 24/11/2021
A three pronged project approach to embed green in government’s new economic and innovation strategy
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£200,000 26/07/2021
To pump prime a pilot initiative to broaden Green Alliance’s (GA) approach, to embed economic analysis into their staff skill set and policy campaigning and messaging.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£199,000 23/06/2021
Towards core costs supporting the next phase of Greener UK, a coalition of environment charities working to ensure high environmental standards and protections post-Brexit.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding for Green Alliance’s Natural Environment Programme (staff, events and publication costs)
£100,000 24/09/2020
36
Towards the costs of their Natural Environment Programme which seeks to curb the long-term decline in the health of the UK’s natural environment.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 07/08/2020
Delivering a green renewal for the UK
Samworth Foundation - Green Renewal Co-ordination Programme
£228,000 16/06/2020
12
To bring together environmental organisations with powerful business voices, to agree a concise list of asks, supported by robust economic analysis, and co-ordinated advocacy to deliver the political leadership necessary to ensure that a green ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£50,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Green Alliance
£219,920 21/03/2020
36
TransformTax
Friends Provident Foundation - GREEN ALLIANCE TRUST - climate emergency plans
£123,000 01/10/2019
This projects aims to accelerate local climate change action by highlighting how Local Authorities (LAs) can deliver on their net-zero ambitions. At least 50 councils in England have declared a climate emergency but several lack the resources to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£348,000 02/07/2019
24
Towards unrestricted core costs for Greener UK and to provide additional support to devolved nations on environment through Greener UK
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£300,000 09/10/2018
36
Climate Leadership Programme
Friends Provident Foundation - Green Alliance Trust-Community energy 2.0
£65,450 12/06/2018
The rapid advances made in electric vehicles, batteries, renewable energy and smart appliances, among others, has revitalised the debate on community energy, opening new possibilities to how communities can generate, consume and trade energy. Green ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£300,000 12/09/2017
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to continue policy work and build the environment sector response to environmental issues raised as Britain exits the European Union.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Green Alliance Trust
£40,000 23/03/2017
24
Core support towards the cost of the Greener UK Coalition to influence envrironmental policy and decision-making as the UK negotiates to leave the European Union over the next two years.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£50,000 23/01/2017
6
Towards core costs to support the work on the Greener UK Unit to ensure the UK has strong or stronger environmental protections as it leaves the EU.
Samworth Foundation - Environment & Conservation
£90,000 17/06/2015
36
To extend the capacity of developing a Parliamentary Programme - engaging MPs, forming networks and informing the parliamentary system about environmental issues linked to policy.
Samworth Foundation - Environment & Conservation
£40,000 18/09/2013
General funding to core costs of organisation.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£259,545 15/12/2011
Towards the salary of the chief economist.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Green Alliance Trust
£225,000 12/06/2008
36
Towards Core costs Towards core policy work to advance the economics and politics of the environment.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-74
  • BENET NORTHCOTE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director Of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • DAVID BALDOCK Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Consultant
  • DHARA VYAS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • DR CRAIG LINDSAY BENNETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • JANE ELIZABETH REEVES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
  • LAURA SANDYS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Independent Consultant
  • MARTIN CLIVE HARPER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ceo Birdlife International
  • PAUL LAMBERT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Officer
  • PROFESSOR ANUSHA SHAH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director, Resilient Cities
  • RITA CLIFTON CBE Appointed: 2018
  • SAIMA RASOOL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant
  • ULAMEN EHIZOGIE VERRE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Sustainability Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1995, number: 1045395
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/1995, number: 03037633
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Green Alliance
Millbank Tower
21-24 Millbank
LONDON
SW1P 4QP

Objectives

TO CONSERVE, PROTECT AND RESTORE THE NATURAL RESOURCES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE OF THE WORLD.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RESPECT OF THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF SUCH NATURAL RESOURCES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE INCLUDING THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH.TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY (1) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; AND (2) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL PROGRESS.IN THIS CONTEXT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT GENERATION WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR NEEDS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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