Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE BRILLIANT CLUB

The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from under-represented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We do this by mobilising the PhD community to share its academic expertise with state schools.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/07/23£6,357£6,650£-293£205£2,830£2,6894.932366
31/07/22£7,490£6,444£1,046£155£3,123£3,0195.632239
31/07/21£8,295£7,169£1,126£157£2,077£2,0343.45860
31/07/20£6,607£6,883£-276£87£951£9241.62360
31/07/19£6,029£5,979£49£61£1,227£9842700
31/07/18£6,315£6,150£165£0£1,177£9591.9600
31/07/17£5,130£5,076£54£0£1,012£7381.7560
31/07/16£3,865£3,817£49£0£962£5711.8320
31/07/15£2,236£1,653£582£10£913£7785.6200
31/07/14£1,022£837£185£8£331£3314.7170
31/07/13£459£400£59n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 4.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 6.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 12 years

www.thebrilliantclub.org

hello@thebrilliantclub.org

020 3758 3991

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Academic support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£200,000
Dulverton Trust£105,000
Nesta£91,600
David & Elaine Potter Foundation£65,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£30,000 12/12/2023
12
Core funding
Dulverton Trust - The Scholars Programme in Yorkshire and Humberside 2022-25
£105,000 19/10/2022
The Scholars Programme in Yorkshire and Humberside 2022-25
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£35,000 28/04/2022
Core funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award - COVID19 response
£100,000 04/06/2021
36
Core Costs/Unrestricted Grant
Nesta - AC01285
£91,600 10/12/2020
National Tutoring Programme programme grant to The Brilliant Club Grant Ref AC01285
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award - COVID19 response
£100,000 29/05/2020
36
Core Costs/Unrestricted Grant
Dulverton Trust - The South West Scholars Programme
£100,000 13/06/2018
The South West Scholars Programme
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Brilliant Club
£119,557 05/03/2014
Towards the core and development costs of its child and parent tutoring programme.
Dulverton Trust - Full Extension into the West Midlands
£75,000 23/10/2013
Full Extension into the West Midlands
Dulverton Trust - the West Midlands Programme Extension
£25,200 24/10/2012
the West Midlands Programme Extension
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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: 28-78
  • ADRIANA SELAGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Go-To-Market Strategy & Operations
  • CARA CINNAMON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • DOMINIC JAMES HERRINGTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: National Schools Commissioner
  • DR JOSEPHINE ANNE STRETCH (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ceo
  • HANNAH NENNA CHUKWU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Publishing Professional
  • JONATHAN KEIL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Lawyer
  • JONATHON JAMES FERGUSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Co-Founder And Partner
  • PAUL KEARNS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Of Banking & Credit
  • PAWAN DHIR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Global Head, Financial Accounting And Controlling
  • RITA CHUDASAMA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director Of Governance, Risk And Compliance
  • ROBERT CARPENTER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ceo
  • SIR IVOR MARTIN CREWE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/2012, number: 1147771
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/03/2012, number: 07986971
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 12/12/2018, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
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
  • 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

X+Why
8-10 Grosvenor Gardens
LONDON
SW1W 0DH

Objectives

The objects of the charity are, for the benefit of the public:2.1. to promote the advancement of education, in particular by seeking to widen university access amongst high performing pupils from low participation communities; and2.2. to pursue any other purpose that is charitable under English law.Throughout these Articles ?charitable? means charitable in accordance with the law of England and Wales provided that it will not include any purpose which is not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. For the avoidance of doubt, the system of law governing the Articles of the Charity is the law of England and Wales.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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