Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK 

Global Greengrants Fund UK makes grants to local communities to protect people and the environment, restore places and ways of life, and transform systems to create a sustainable future where people live with dignity and in harmony with the environment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 11 years

www.globalgreengrants.org.uk

info@globalgreengrants.org.uk

07491314160

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

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 Volun-
teers
30/06/22£4,830£3,976£854£105£2,044£4581.450
30/06/21£1,997£1,630£368£95£999£2792.140
30/06/20£1,665£1,375£289£90£729£2552.241
30/06/19£1,059£911£148£62£428£2092.741
30/06/18£679£686£-7£58£362£1753.123
30/06/17£728£787£-59£62£282£129230
30/06/16£493£179£314£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£57£48£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£33£25£8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 22%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Argentina, Armenia, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), Croatia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Marshall ....more
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 5 employees

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund£100,000
Rothschild Foundation£90,000
J J Charitable Trust£70,000
The Joffe Trust£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
J J Charitable Trust - Projects and grant-making support in the Women’s Environment Action programme
£20,000 21/03/2023
Towards projects and grant-making support in the Women’s Environment Action programme
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Towards supporting grassroots groups addressing climate change across Latin America.
£50,000 24/05/2022
Towards supporting grassroots groups addressing climate change across Latin America.
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Towards supporting grassroots groups addressing climate change across Latin America.
£50,000 24/05/2022
Towards supporting grassroots groups addressing climate change across Latin America.
J J Charitable Trust - Women Environmental Action work
£50,000 15/02/2022
Towards their Women Environmental Action work
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Global Greengrants
£90,000 26/11/2021
To support young people in their efforts to protect and restore their local natural environment through the annual Iris Prize in memory of Iris Goldsmith.
LUND TRUST - Towards establishing the Iris Project
£8,351 08/11/2021
To help the Iris project build a global community of young people working to protect and restore their local natural environment
Indigo Trust - To support the Shift the Power Funder Collective
£15,000 05/03/2021
To support the Shift the Power Funder Collective to appoint a Curator/facilitator
Indigo Trust - To support the Shift the Power Funder Collective
£15,000 05/03/2021
To support the Shift the Power Funder Collective to appoint a Curator/facilitator
GMSP Foundation - Grant to Global Greengrants UK
£10,000 06/04/2020
Support towards Global Greengrants' grantmaking to grassroots organisations in India
The Joffe Trust - Global Greengrants Fund UK
£60,000 04/10/2019
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-56
  • ROSE LONGHURST (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Program Officer For Open Source Democracy
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/04/2013, number: 1151527
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2012, number: 08113055
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

Huckletree
1 Horse Guards Avenue
London
SW1A 2HU

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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