Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
Deficit latest year: -2
Future income +5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED

DataKind UK believes data can have a transformative effect on how charities make decisions and create social change. It can be difficult for charities to fund analytic posts. Meanwhile, many data scientists want to help make the world a better place. We provide data scientists with a way to volunteer their skills on charity projects and show charities the power of their data.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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
31/03/23		£370	£428	£-58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	179
31/03/22		£379	£332	£47	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	151
31/03/21		£391	£277	£114	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	250
31/03/20		£248	£222	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	345
31/03/19		£153	£167	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	330
31/03/18		£150	£121	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£126	£116	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£82	£86	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£57	£46	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 11 years

www.datakind.org.uk

contact@datakind.org.uk

07974271311

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
179 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£360,000	25/04/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs to transform the use of data and data science in the social sector, through direct support, community building and effective communications
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£8,050	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£2,754	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Datakind UK
£60,000	21/09/2021 24	Towards unrestricted core costs to support the Data Collective: developing a community of data experts in the social sector
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DataKind UK
£295,000	05/11/2019 36	Towards core costs to support Datakind to encourage the intelligent use of data within the UK charities in order to increase impact across the sector.
The Fore - Grant to Datakind UK
£30,000	19/07/2016 24	Grant funded a Community Manager post for two years, with the aim of this post becoming self-funded.
Nesta - AR00217
£10,000	27/01/2016 9	Public and Social Innovation: General Code programme grant to DataKind Grant Ref AR00217
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DataKind UK
£96,484	27/01/2016 36	Towards core costs to support charitable organisations to make the most of data to further their mission.
Nesta - AR00150
£25,000	11/03/2014	Datakind programme grant to DataKind Grant Ref AR00150

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-54

LAUREN WOODMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer

LINDSEY MACDONALD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Managing Director

BETHIA MCNEIL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeship: CITY YEAR UK,

ED ANDERTON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

KATHERINE VANG Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Data Scientist

TARIQ KHOKHAR (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Other trusteeship: UK BIOBANK LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/10/2013, number: 1154213
Registered at Companies House on 26/03/2013, number: 08462148

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures

Filing Record

9 returns made; AR16: 3 days late,

Main office

c/o Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
6th Floor
210 Pentonville Road
London

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITABLE AND NON CHARITABLE BODIES BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO AND USE OF DATA AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES TO ASSIST THEM IN FURTHERING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES

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