Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

SOUTH WEST GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST

Providing educational establishments with safe, secure and reliable broadband internet connections, online safety services and broadband-enabled learning and teaching resources and services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • 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 issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile 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£3,390£3,172£217£0£2,371£2,3719330
31/03/22£3,582£3,217£365£0£1,640£1,6406.1320
31/03/21£4,280£4,109£171£0£961£9612.8320
31/03/20£5,003£5,096£-93£0£1,044£1,0442.5320
31/03/19£5,557£5,593£-35£0£1,151£1,2072.6320
31/03/18£6,479£6,317£162£0£1,320£1,3202.5300
31/03/17£6,890£6,927£-38£0£1,018£1,0321.8290
31/03/16£7,513£7,278£234£0£1,442£1,2682.1270
31/03/15£9,912£9,591£321£33£1,133£1,0371.3220
31/03/14£11,677£11,795£-118£43£1,075£1,0771.1190
31/03/13£15,109£15,539£-430£85£929£7410.6220
31/03/12£14,421£15,297£-875£27£1,516£7830.6200
31/03/11£22,776£22,878£-102£47£2,530£7330.4210
31/03/10£24,130£23,978£152£14£2,914£4520.2170
31/03/09£17,355£15,343£2,012£12£2,762£5600.4190
31/03/08£13,134£12,966£168£10£749£2810.390

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 38%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 17 years

www.swgfl.org.uk

enquiries@swgfl.org.uk

03456013203

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2023 Education and Training
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
Home Office£803,318
DCMS£316,500
Ministry of Justice£220,000
Comic Relief£69,975
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Home Office - Violence Against Women and Girls - helplines
£150,000 24/02/2022
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire ....more
Home Office - Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service for Professionals
£400,000 10/12/2021
To set up an independent support service to deliver nationwide targeted support in the UK on issues related to harmful sexual behaviour and support schools/professionals to develop an effective strategic response to HSB. This will complement the DfE ....more
DCMS - South West Grid for Learning Trust 21/22
£158,250 16/11/2021
To fund an AI tool designed to support W&G who are victims of intimate image abuse. The tool will give information about the types of abuse suffered (on and offline), give tools to remove intimate content, report crimes and regain hacked ....more
DCMS - South West Grid for Learning Trust 21/22
£158,250 16/11/2021
To fund an AI tool designed to support W&G who are victims of intimate image abuse. The tool will give information about the types of abuse suffered (on and offline), give tools to remove intimate content, report crimes and regain hacked ....more
Home Office - Violence Against Women and Girls - helplines
£120,000 13/05/2021
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire ....more
Comic Relief - Support, Hear, Hope (Shh)
£69,975 28/04/2021
We are a charity that operates three sister helplines. The Revenge Porn (RP) Helpline and Report Harmful Content (RHC) help victims, more often than not, female aged 18 to 55 (85%) who are subjected to criminal offences of Intimate Image Abuse ....more
Ministry of Justice - Covid-19 Support for Vulnerable Children’s Charities
£220,000 19/06/2020
Organisations who support children and young people to achieve their potential
Home Office - SOUTH WEST GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST
£119,500 01/04/2020
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire ....more
Home Office - SOUTH WEST GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST
£13,818 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual levels of demand, to keep pace with rising levels ....more
Home Office - Violence against Women & Girls Helplines 2019-20
£80,000 01/04/2019
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk schools 360 degree safe project
£10,000 16/01/2018
11
To promote the use of the 360 degree safe Online Safety Self Review tool among schools in Suffolk.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-70
  • ANDREW COGHLAN Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • ANDY DAVID PHIPPEN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Professor
  • CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Headteacher
  • HOLLY ELIZABETH PORTER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Membership Director
  • IAN DANIELLS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor And Director
  • JOANNE BRISCOMBE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Education Advisor
  • JOHN-ORR HANNA Appointed: 2024
  • KARUNA NAIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Independent Online Safety Expert
  • MARK PERRY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Enterprise Architect
  • ROBERT BOND Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Solicitor
  • SHEILA MARGARET SMITH (Chair) Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Deputy Director
  • SARAH JAMES Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/07/2007, number: 1120354
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/10/2005, number: 05589479
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

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Objectives

2.1 The Charity's objects (Objects) are restricted specifically, for the public benefit to advance and promote: 2.1.1 the education of people, in particular, but not solely, those within the education sector; and 2.1.2 the health, including for the avoidance of doubt, mental and physical health and the avoidance of harm to either of persons, in both cases, in, or in connection with, the areas of electronic, online and cyber security and welfare, including safety and security of information and general usage, in such ways as the trustees see fit, and in all geographical locations. 2.2 Nothing in these articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word charitable or the words charitable purposes in force in any part of England, including in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Defined Area of Benefit:

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Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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