Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 24

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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
30/06/23	£5,715	£5,106	£608	£142	£2,546	£2,023	4.8	7	0
30/06/22	£4,830	£3,976	£854	£105	£2,044	£458	1.4	5	0
30/06/21	£1,997	£1,630	£368	£95	£999	£279	2.1	4	0
30/06/20	£1,665	£1,375	£289	£90	£729	£255	2.2	4	1
30/06/19	£1,059	£911	£148	£62	£428	£209	2.7	4	1
30/06/18	£679	£686	£-7	£58	£362	£175	3.1	2	0
30/06/17	£728	£787	£-59	£62	£282	£129	2	3	0
30/06/16	£493	£179	£314	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/15	£57	£48	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/14	£33	£25	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 4.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 11.7

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 12 years

www.globalgreengrants.org.uk

info@globalgreengrants.org.uk

07491314160

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Animals
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Land or water management
Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy

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 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

Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund	£100,000
Rothschild Foundation	£90,000
J J Charitable Trust	£70,000
Indigo Trust	£30,000

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 24	Strengthen Global Greengrants Fund UK as an organisation

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

Who works here?

TERESA ODENDAHJI
CEO

Terry has worked for more than 40 years to bridge the gap between our natural and human worlds. Prior to joining Global Greengrants in 2009, she helmed the National Network of Grantmakers for over a decade, and later the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers. Terry also worked to protect public lands in the western United States as a program officer at the Wyss Foundation. An anthropologist by training, she has held faculty positions at ....more

Commentary: The charity has 145 volunteer experts worldwide who serve on 24 regional and thematic advisory boards to decide which grantees receive money. Each volunteer serves as their eyes and ears on the ground, and brings expertise from the area where they live, their experiences and their professional endeavours, as well as personal connections in country. Each board creates a strategy for their grant making annually and each advisor finds potential grantees via their networks. The boards then determine which groups will receive the funding and can reach critical groups that most other funders cannot. Their model of awarding grants is widely known as participatory grant making.

Source: Giving is Great

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-57

ADITI SHAH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee

ELISA FANNY GEORGINA PETER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee

LAURA GARCIA COUDURIER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Ceo & President

LAUREN EMILY STEVENSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Manager

LIAM MICHAEL MCALEESE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

RICHARD OLIVIER HOEDEMAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

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

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Public Hall Huckletree
1 Horse Guards Avenue
Westminster
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

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