Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

HANSARD SOCIETY LIMITED

We are an independent, non-partisan political research and education society working in the UK and around the world to promote democracy and strengthen parliaments.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£273£316£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£274£426£-152n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£297£391£-94n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20*£661£716£-55£0£396£3966.670
31/12/19£1,161£1,136£24£0£450£4504.881
31/12/18£845£882£-37£0£426£4265.880
31/12/17£995£935£60£0£463£4535.880
31/12/16£812£784£27£0£403£3785.8100
31/12/15£878£749£129£1£376£3054.970
31/12/14£777£757£20£19£247£1812.9100
31/12/13£1,061£941£120£21£228£1231.6100
31/12/12£1,038£1,021£16£21£107£881110
31/12/11£1,069£1,137£-67£26£91£740.890
31/12/10£1,065£1,143£-77£27£158£1581.7140
31/12/09£1,091£1,136£-45£24£236£2252.4170
31/12/08£1,094£1,127£-33£51£280£2803180
31/12/07£1,144£1,112£32£80£313£3103.3190
31/12/06£1,203£1,131£72n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£1,243£1,162£81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£1,492£1,429£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.hansardsociety.org.uk

contact@hansardsociety.org.uk

0203 925 3979

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social advocacy & research
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - A grant to Hansard Society
£90,000 25/05/2023
A grant to Hansard Society under the LEF's Fairer Systems programme
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Hansard Society
£232,311 18/03/2023
Building a Better Commons
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Hansard Society
£120,000 10/07/2020
24
Core costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-77
  • BARONESS WINIFRED ANN TAYLOR OF BOLTON (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • DIANNE BEVAN Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer
  • DR REBECCA ANNE RUMBUL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Research, Mysociety
  • GERALD SHAMASH Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Solicitor
  • JACQUELINE ASHLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Media Consultant
  • LORD ANDREW JAMES DUNLOP Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Public Affairs
  • PROFESSOR ROGER AWAN-SCULLY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Professor Of Political Science, Cardiff University
  • SHIRLEY CAMERON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Group Financial Controller
  • SIR DAVID RICHARD BEAMISH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired Clerk Of The Parliaments
  • SIR PAUL SILK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Self-Employed Consultant
  • SUE INGLISH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/03/2002, number: 1091364
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/11/2001, number: 04332105
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
  • 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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Serious incident reporting 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; AR20: 1 days late,
Main office

36-37 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7TL

Objectives

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED IS TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST IN PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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