Finance Score: 10
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 29 ?

LONDON FUNDERS

Membership organisation for funders and investors in London's Third Sector.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

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
31/03/24£932£912£21£6£333£3334.480
31/03/23£884£786£98£5£313£2994.660
31/03/22£409£415£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£569£483£85£5£221£1994.940
31/03/20?£362£332£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£566£536£30£11£103£1032.320
31/03/17£239£265£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£273£264£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15?£243£215£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£138£147£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£182£166£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£123£133£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£151£136£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£150£149£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£149£138£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£107£129£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 18 years

www.londonfunders.org.uk

info@londonfunders.org.uk

02072554488

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and volunteering
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities

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
City Bridge Trust£1,813,201
National Lottery Community Fund£498,267
John Lyon's Charity£120,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£46,000
Greater London Authority£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£10,000 18/04/2024
£10,000 over one year (£10,000) towards the costs associated with CBF?s participation in the Shared Due Diligence Pilot.
Trust for London - London Funders
£5,000 28/03/2024
6
The funding is to map the current state of funding for equity and justice infrastructure in London to identify, on both the 'demand' and 'supply' side, where there are gaps and opportunities to inform discussions with funders on the strategic ....more
Greater London Authority - Mapping Equity Infrastructure, and piloting a shared due diligence approach
£10,000 12/03/2024
To map the current state of funding for equity and justice infrastructure initially in London, but with a methodology that could be scaled to cover England and Wales in a later phase. Identify, on both the “demand” and “supply” side, where ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£615,000 11/09/2023
36
£615,000 over 3 years (£195,000; £205,000; £215,000) to develop a Resource Hub to support the development of place-based giving schemes in the capital.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£100,000 21/03/2023
£100,000 over 12 months towards the London's Giving resource hub.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Festival of Learning
£10,000 02/03/2023
London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors in London’s civil society. They will be hosting their third Festival of Learning in May 2023, for funders to come together with civil society to share learning, make new ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Propel -Equity and Learning
£498,267 18/11/2022
This funding will support London Funders (LF) to engage learning partners and five equity partners to work within a new initiative called Propel a collaborative funding programme offering support and grants across London; prioritising the ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Capacity Building grant to London Funders
£120,000 17/11/2022
Propel Core Costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£695,600 05/10/2022
60
£695,600 over five years (£340,000; £82,000; £86,000; £91,200; £96,400) towards infrastructure and convening costs of the Collaborative Action for Recovery initiative
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£300,000 09/03/2022
60
£300,000 over 5 years (5 x £60,000) to support London Funders’ efforts to promote greater cooperation, contribution, and collaboration between funders across sectors in London.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Learning from funder responses to Covid-19
£6,000 21/07/2021
3
London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. This grant supports the production of learning reports from 45 workshops ran as part of the London Funders ‘Festival of Learning’. This will allow ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£44,476 16/12/2020
0
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - London Community Response - Learning Partner
£18,000 10/12/2020
London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. This grant supports the commissioning of learning partners on behalf of the London Community Response to explore the potential for continued and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Sustainable funding strategy for immigration advice in London
£12,000 23/11/2020
London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. In consultation with the Justice Together Initiative and contributing funders, London Funders will use this grant to develop and deliver a funding ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£35,625 28/09/2020
towards the costs of an evaluation project to map and utilise the learning from the London Community Response funder collaboration waves 1 and 2, as outlined in your application
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£12,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
Tudor Trust - Grant to London Funders
£100,789 22/02/2018
12
as a contribution to the Community Core Costs fund which provided immediate and short-term support to small voluntary and commmunity organisations working in North Kensington in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£250,000 18/03/2016
60
£250,000 over 5 years (5 x £50,000) towards core costs.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Funders
£100,000 12/02/2014
24
£100,000 over two years (£50,000; £50,000) towards the core costs of London Funders to take account of the increased activity and related spend to deliver LF's strategic plan.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-64
  • ANDREW MATHESON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Senior Commissioning Officer
  • DAVID FARNSWORTH (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chief Grants Officer
  • DOMINIC STEPHEN BRIANT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager
  • DR LYNNE GUYTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • EDITH GALLIERS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Policy, Equalities And Communities
  • EMMA LOUISE CORRIGAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Non-Departmental Public Body
  • MATTHEW PARSONAGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Neighbourhood Investment
  • SALLY REBECCA DICKINSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Foundation
  • SARA KATHRYN COONEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Charity Regional Manager
  • SHABANA ASLAM Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Vcs Funding & Commissioning Partnerships Manager
  • SUSAN ANDREA BARRY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Sector Grant Management
  • TUNDE OLAYINKA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Public Sector Director
  • UGOCHUKWU KODILINYE CHIEDOZIE IKOKWU Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Grants Manager
  • YOLANDE CATHERINE BURGESS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Public Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2006, number: 1116201
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/10/2005, number: 05596299
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

4 CHISWELL STREET
LONDON
EC1Y 4UP

Objectives

1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN GREATER LONDON BY:3.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY BY: (A) PROMOTING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR; (B) PROVIDING ADVICE AND INFORMATION PARTICULARLY ON FUNDING AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR AND FUNDING ORGANISATIONS;(C) PROVIDING RESOURCES AND FUNDING TO THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR; 3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY: (A) PROVIDING TRAINING AND INFORMATION TO, (B) FACILITATING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE BETWEEN, THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR AND FUNDING ORGANISATIONS TO ENABLE FUNDING ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND FUNDING TO THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR MORE EFFECTIVELY.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE OBJECTS VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR MEANS: (I) CHARITIES WHICH ARE ORGANISATIONS ESTABLISHED FOR ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES; AND(II) ORGANISATIONS ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT PROVIDE BENEFIT TO THE PUBLIC, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE PUBLIC, WHERE THEY CONDUCT ANY ACTIVITIES WHICH FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE;IN EACH CASE WHERE THEIR ACTIVITIES ARE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BASED IN GREATER LONDON AND IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN GREATER LONDON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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