Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

SYNCHRONICITY EARTH

Synchronicity Earth identifies the biggest priorities for conservation and brings charities, experts and philanthropists together to meet them. By nurturing collaborations, we help scale up environmental protection focusing both on entrenched and emerging problems. Our evidence base ensures that we support the right organisations and projects, enabling them to have the greatest impact.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

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	£5,594	£5,712	£-118	£181	£11,375	£1,572	3.3	26	1
31/12/22	£8,428	£4,153	£4,275	£130	£10,366	£1,244	3.6	20	0
31/12/21	£4,283	£3,298	£985	£125	£4,061	£561	2	17	0
31/12/20	£3,328	£2,965	£363	£125	£2,855	£483	2	15	1
31/12/19	£3,104	£1,952	£1,152	£86	£2,385	£383	2.4	14	0
31/12/18	£1,595	£1,499	£97	£73	£1,223	£227	1.8	11	0
31/12/17	£1,664	£1,444	£220	£243	£1,065	£278	2.3	11	0
31/12/16	£808	£764	£44	£9	£211	£211	3.3	8	0
31/12/15	£430	£639	£-209	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/14	£1,908	£1,647	£262	£336	£376	£368	2.7	5	0
31/12/13	£750	£685	£65	£3	£114	£114	2	5	0
31/12/12	£595	£667	£-72	£22	£49	£47	0.9	5	0
31/12/11	£549	£504	£45	£2	£121	£90	2.1	6	0
31/12/10	£284	£208	£77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 23%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 14%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 15 years

www.synchronicityearth.org

info@synchronicityearth.org

02075810100

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Legal & financial advice

How it operates

Makes grants to individuals
Makes grants to organisations
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Argentina, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic), East Timor, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Throughout England And Wales, Togo, United States, Vietnam,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
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
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£30,000	07/12/2020	To scale up work which addresses overlooked and underfunded conservation challenges for globally threatened species and ecosystems
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£70,000	18/11/2020	To provide additional support to help their partners fight the current and future impacts of COVID-19 on both their own organisations and the local communities/indigenous peoples they work with
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£250,000	28/02/2020 36	High and Deep Seas
John Ellerman Foundation - Work on the High Seas
£90,000	29/11/2018 36	Towards the costs of the High and Deep Seas programme supporting a combination of advocacy, research and campaigning
Samworth Foundation - Environment & Conservation
£180,000	19/10/2017 36	To make a significant contribution to the Congo Basin Funding Programme. This is a Devolved Grant made as part of a pool of funders supporting this programme which will be managed by Synchronicity Earth
Samworth Foundation - Environment & Conservation
£180,000	30/09/2017	To make a significant contribution to the Congo Basin Funding Programme. This is a Devolved Grant made as part of a pool of funders supporting this programme which will be managed by Synchronicity Earth

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 53-67

ADAM DAVID SWEIDAN (Chair) Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Chief Investment Officer

CATHERINE SUSAN BRYAN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Consultant

JESSICA SWEIDAN Appointed: 2009, Occupation: None

THOMAS EDWARD FERNANDEZ Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Asset Management

WILLIAM DAVID ECCLES Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/11/2009, number: 1132786
Registered at Companies House on 03/07/2009, number: 06952204

Gift Aid

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
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

Filing Record

14 returns made; all on time

Main office

5th Floor
1 Chancery Lane
LONDON
WC2A 1LF

Objectives

3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY;3.2 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES AND THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; AND3.4 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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