Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 1

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -3

SOCIAL TECH TRUST

We identify where tech has the greatest potential to transform lives, then back people and organisations to demonstrate what?s possible. Building on this knowledge, we seek out and join forces with others to create a supportive environment for those striving to realise the full promise of socially motivated tech.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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

Established: 16 years

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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
31/03/23	£169	£638	£-469	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£358	£563	£-205	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£389	£698	£-309	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	£99	£775	£-676	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	£459	£1,645	£-1,185	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18?	£84	£1,446	£-1,362	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/04/17	£5,695	£4,346	£1,349	£0	£7,838	£7,814	21.6	10
30/04/16	£4,062	£3,639	£423	£0	£6,488	£6,488	21.4	7
30/04/15	£3,328	£4,121	£-794	£16	£6,066	£6,066	17.7	12
30/04/14	£6,067	£5,529	£538	£13	£6,859	£6,859	14.9	13
30/04/13	£6,123	£6,850	£-727	£8	£6,321	£6,321	11.1	11
30/04/12	£7,147	£7,436	£-289	£13	£7,048	£7,048	11.4	10
30/04/11	£5,113	£3,067	£2,046	£14	£7,337	£7,337	28.7	5
30/04/10	£3,066	£2,511	£556	£4	£5,291	£5,291	25.3	2
30/04/09	£5,085	£350	£4,735	£105	£4,735	£4,735	162.2	2

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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 48%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000

What it does

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Other charitable activities
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Social Tech Trust Equity Investment Fund Support
£300,000	01/02/2019	This 300k grant would serve two main purposes in the foundation of this fund:Support the funds setup costs (150k) - e.g. building the financial model, appointing relevant advisors, developing legal ....more This 300k grant would serve two main purposes in the foundation of this fund:Support the funds setup costs (150k) - e.g. building the financial model, appointing relevant advisors, developing legal documents, etcEstablishing the technical assistance function (150k) - Early stage ventures require a range of support, other than financial (e.g. business planning; increasing diversity; legal advice, measuring social impact, etc). Hence, this funding would be spent on scaling up the existing technical assistance function (known as Funder Plus) with the intention of launching it in February/ Marc. This function would not solely support the proposed 30m investment fund but also other ventures supported by Social Tech Trust, for example, from their Tech to Unite Us grant fund.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Social Tech Trust
£250,000	16/03/2016	To match fund a grants round for digital arts for older people.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-53

MARIA ALEKSANDRA SLOWINSKA NELSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Innovation Practice

MEHJABEEN PATRICK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Interim Chief Finance Officer

NICHOLAS WISE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Ceo

NICOLAS MARK ALEXANDER TEMPLE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chief Executive

ROBERT TASHIMA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Growth Officer

RUSSELL IAN JOHNSTONE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: General Counsel, Consumer, Other trusteeship: SOCIAL MOBILITY BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP,

SUNIL SURI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Ventures And Innovation

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/09/2008, number: 1125735
Registered at Companies House on 28/04/2008, number: 06578379

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
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
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

15 returns made; all on time

Main office

Social Tech Trust
Invicta House
4th Floor
108-114 Golden Lane
LONDON

Objectives

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THE INTERNET AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY2) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND ADVANCE EDUCATION RELATING TO THE INTERNET AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DEPRIVED AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE BY THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS INCLUDING SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE DESIGN3) TO RELIEVE THE SOCIAL, HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF DISABLED, SICK AND FRAIL ELDERLY PEOPLE BY CONDUCTING AND COMMISSIONING RESEARCH INTO ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNED TO RELIEVE SUCH NEEDS, BY APPLYING SUCH RESEARCH, AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF EFFECTIVE RESULTS4) TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OFFERING A STRONG EMPHASIS ON TECHNOLOGY AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS5) TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE VULNERABLE BY REASON OF THEIR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR ILLNESS FROM DANGER, SUFFERING, OR BEING ABUSED PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY OR MENTALLY THROUGH THE USE OF THE INTERNET6) TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND PROPERTY FROM CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES ON THE INTERNET AND TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TO PREVENT AND DETECT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY ON THE INTERNET FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC7) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ASSIST THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNET IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, FOR EXAMPLE BY PROVIDING GRANTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO ATTEND CONFERENCES ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RELATED SUBJECTS.8) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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