Overall Score: 19 based on 20 data points
Finance: 1
Governance: 9
Support: 9
Poor Liquidity: -1, Strong growth: +2,
Good trustee age range: +3, Dynamic board: +3, Gender balanced board: +3,
Award winner, Supporters: +9

FIVE TALENTS UK LTD 

Five Talents works with a network of community partners who provide savings schemes alongside literacy and business training for communities who have been marginalised around the world.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 18 years

www.fivetalents.org.uk

info@fivetalents.org.uk

02038087643

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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
31/12/22£1,172£1,193£-20£128£484£460.5720
31/12/21£1,030£920£110£94£504£1912.5610
31/12/20£929£934£-5£99£394£1431.8612
31/12/19£824£898£-75£102£399£1081.4610
31/12/18£798£704£94£86£474£981.7412
31/12/17£703£598£105£75£380£691.440
31/12/16£637£543£93£53£275£791.740
31/12/15£456£463£-8n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/14£473£421£52n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/13£520£507£13£159£137£1172.850
31/12/12£511£523£-12£141£123£1162.750
31/12/11£601£596£5£110£135£1262.550
31/12/10£570£512£58£91£130£1092.640
31/12/09£463£446£17n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/08£319£313£6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/07£249£237£12n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/06£152£114£38n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.7%
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 43%
Reserves/Spending: 0.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 28.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Bolivia, Burma, Burundi, Congo (Democratic Republic), Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2021 Grantmaking & funding
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Dulverton Trust£92,369
The Bishop Radford Trust£79,332
The Funding Network£20,868
The EQ Foundation£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Bishop Radford Trust
£19,765 07/11/2022
Five Talents helps the poor in developing countries to start or expand a business. We do this by providing business training, savings schemes and small loans through local microfinance partners.This ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust
£19,805 07/11/2022
This award was for the work in the Dominican Republic and Myanmar - towards savings groups
The Funding Network
£20,868 24/03/2021
Five Talents supports rural communities in eastern Africa facing economic hardship, providing a safe place to save and borrow money along with business skills training to start a small business.
The EQ Foundation
£2,000 10/03/2021
Via The Funding Network
The Bishop Radford Trust
£15,000 27/01/2021
Five Talents helps the poor in developing countries to start or expand a business. This award was for the work in the Dominican Republic and Myanmar - towards savings groups
The Bishop Radford Trust
£19,762 23/06/2020
Five Talents helps the poor in developing countries to start or expand a business. We do this by providing business training, savings schemes and small loans through local microfinance partners. This ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust
£5,000 14/10/2019
Five Talents helps the poor in developing countries to start or expand a business. They do this by providing business training, savings schemes and small loans through local microfinance partners. ....more
The Dulverton Trust
£92,369 12/06/2019
Securing livelihoods in Baringo, Kenya
The Dulverton Trust
£10,000 14/02/2018
Empowering 7300 households in Kenya
The Dulverton Trust
£10,000 11/02/2016
towards financial services and training in rural Kenya
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 22-65
  • AGNES GITAU
    Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Partner, Gbs Africa
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/05/2006, number: 1113969
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/12/2005, number: 05641704
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE CITY OF LONDON SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND on 01/12/2021
Main office

MARY SUMNER HOUSE
24 TUFTON STREET
LONDON
SW1P 3RB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY PARTNERING WITH THE INDIGENOUS ANGLICAN CHURCHES AND OTHER PARTNERS TO OPERATE QUALITY MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES, THROUGH PROVISION OF TRAINING AND CAPITAL GRANTS, AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES CONSISTENT WITH THIS OBJECTIVE.

Defined Area of Benefit: IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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