Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

UPRISING LEADERSHIP

UpRising is a UK-wide youth leadership development organisation. Our mission is to open pathways to power and opportunities for a diverse range of young people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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£997£1,041£-44£9£228£89118200
31/03/23*£924£846£79£10£272£138217554
31/03/22£1,127£1,176£-49£11£193£1301.328233
31/03/21£1,171£1,106£65£36£243£1691.828832
31/03/20?£1,322£1,298£24£0£178£112131585
31/03/18£1,221£1,160£61£20£159£500.5300
31/03/17£1,195£1,234£-39£0£98£90.1260
31/03/16£636£1,080£-444£0£137£440.5230
31/03/15£1,568£1,363£206£4£602£3993.5260
31/03/14£1,071£675£396£6£396£1462.6100

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 16%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 39%
Reserves/Spending: 1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 4.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 12 years

www.uprising.org.uk

HELLO@UPRISING.ORG.UK

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • 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
Greater London Authority£710,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£83,821
BBC Children in Need£79,402
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£50,000
Esmee Fairbairn£25,000
Manchester City Council£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - New Deal for Young People Grants
£610,000 01/01/2024
We will deliver 850 mentoring relationships, across a number of London Boroughs, to a diverse and disadvantaged range of young Londoners aged 14 to 24 years old. We will want to understand how mentoring supports the educational and employment ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 24/04/2023
UpRising's core
Greater London Authority - One Million Mentors
£100,000 27/01/2023
This uplift is for scaling up current 1:1 STEAM mentoring offer to a further 200 young people. Over the 2 years (plus extension), they are aiming to establish a total of 400 mentoring relationships across East London; covering Barking and Dagenham, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening the impact and longevity of alumni networks
£45,000 18/01/2021
UpRising supports young people from diverse backgrounds to take up leadership positions across politics, business, and the public and voluntary sectors. This grant will fund a Campaigns and Engagement Officer to develop UpRising’s alumni networks ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000 04/12/2020
UpRising core costs - moving our programmes online
Manchester City Council - Grant to Uprising Leadership
£20,000 01/10/2020
To provide mentoring service for young people in Manchester
BBC Children in Need - Grant to UpRising Leadership
£79,402 31/07/2020
Covid19 - This grant will fund an environmental leadership course for 50 young people who are experiencing socio-economic disadvantage due to Covid-19. The project aims to improve specialist knowledge and improve life skills.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to UpRising
£83,821 10/07/2020
12
Environmental Leadership Programme and Social Action Bootcamp
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to UpRising Leadership
£25,000 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening the impact and longevity of alumni networks
£5,000 16/03/2020
UpRising supports young people from diverse backgrounds to take up leadership positions across politics, business, and the public and voluntary sectors. This grant will fund a Campaigns and Engagement Officer to develop UpRising’s alumni networks ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Uprising
£5,000 16/12/2019
8
UpRising Leadership Programme Bedfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Cardiff Leadership Programme
£10,000 09/09/2019
12
Cardiff Leadership Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/05/2019
UpRising Core Activities
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£135,000 01/04/2019
Uprisings 1 Million Mentors (1MM) programme aims to ensure every young person in the country has access to a trained mentor as they transition into adulthood. The projects ambition is to train, recruit and connect a million professionals to a ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£43,247 01/04/2019
.
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£43,247 01/04/2019
.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening the impact and longevity of alumni networks
£100,000 21/11/2018
24
UpRising supports young people from diverse backgrounds to take up leadership positions across politics, business, and the public and voluntary sectors. This grant will fund a Campaigns and Engagement Officer to develop UpRising’s alumni networks ....more
Spirit of 2012 - 1 Million Mentors (2018-2021)
£500,000 05/10/2018
1MM aims to train, recruit and connect mentors to young people to increase youth employability, support social action & break down social barriers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
National Lottery Community Fund - UpRising Cymru Leadership Programme
£10,000 29/06/2018
12
UpRising Cymru Leadership Programme
Nesta - AC00771
£270,000 15/05/2018
30
Connected Communities programme grant to One Million Mentors Grant Ref AC00771
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£135,000 15/05/2018
Uprisings 1 Million Mentors (1MM) programme aims to ensure every young person in the country has access to a trained mentor as they transition into adulthood. The projects ambition is to train, recruit and connect a million professionals to a ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - UpRising Leadership Programme
£5,000 27/03/2018
12
Grant to UpRising Leadership
National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill One Million Mentors (1MM) West Midlands
£30,000 23/02/2018
12
#iwill One Million Mentors (1MM) West Midlands
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 24/01/2018
The Leaders of Tomorrow
National Lottery Community Fund - The Leaders of Tomorrow
£180,087 01/11/2017
36
Young people across Birmingham who are not in education, training or employment, who are ex-offenders or have special educational needs and mental health conditions will be amongst those helped through this project. Learning sessions will be ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to UpRising
£35,000 11/10/2017
12
over one year as continuation funding towards the running costs of a leadership programme for young people from under-represented backgrounds from across West London
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£43,247 01/05/2017
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DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£43,247 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£43,247 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£32,435 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£32,435 01/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting young people to make change happen
£60,000 07/11/2016
24
UpRising is a youth leadership charity opening pathways to power for talented young people from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. The grant was for increasing the central capacity in preparation for further growth in reach, rolling out of ....more
Spirit of 2012 - 1 Million Mentors (2017)
£50,000 07/09/2016
A pilot programme to test an online platform in 3 cities to recruit, train and deploy mentors and connect them to young adults. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
Tudor Trust - Grant to UpRising
£40,000 18/08/2016
12
over one year as unrestricted funding for a youth leadership development organisation working with young people from under-represented backgrounds across England and Wales
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to UpRising Leadership
£280,000 30/06/2016
48
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation providing a leadership and social mobility programme throughout the UK.
Comic Relief - A Helping Hand into Employment
£448,900 15/07/2015
48
UpRising has an employability programme (Fastlaners) that has had great success in getting disadvantaged and unemployed young people into employment and training. It would now like to combine this approach with peer-le mentoring (using UpRising's ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - We're speaking up for our community
£427,413 04/02/2014
36
_x000B_This continuation of an existing project by UpRising Leadership (UL) aims to enable young adults (YA) from disadvantaged and marginalised areas to engage with their community and tackle critical community issues, by providing them with the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to UpRising Leadership
£180,000 20/06/2013
Towards core costs of a leadership and social mobility programme in Manchester and surrounding areas.
Dulverton Trust - UpRising Leadership Programme ? Manchester
£25,000 19/06/2013
UpRising Leadership Programme ? Manchester
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 26-68
  • AFIYA BEGUM Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Project Manager
  • AMIRA ISMAIL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Programme Officer
  • DOMINIC GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Solicitor
  • GRACE ELIZABETH SMITH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Freelance Producer/Practitioner
  • JAMES KNIGHT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Career Break
  • LENA PATEL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • NAZRIN YSMAILOVA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: N/A
  • RICHARD SIMON SHARP (Chair) Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ceo
  • STEPHEN COLEGRAVE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/11/2012, number: 1149905
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/10/2012, number: 08252639
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
10 returns made; AR23: 12 days late,
Main office

Unit 2.C.05
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR LEADERSHIP SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; (B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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