Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

TUTORS UNITED

To advance the education of state school pupils in the UK by providing community-basedtutoring programmes in such ways as the charity trustees see fit, including by university students. As aresult, we expect to see pupils increase their academic attainment, become confident in learning and thrive as independent learners and have a successful transition to secondary school.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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£571£557£14£91£221£2084.5130
31/07/22£481£460£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£489£404£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20*£318£293£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£317£274£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 38.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 16.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 4.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 7 years
(11 years as a company)

www.tutorsunited.org

info@tutorsunited.org

03003654466

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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 services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£501,573
DCMS£77,700
Esmee Fairbairn£64,000
Walcot Foundation£49,221
Cheshire Community Foundation£19,240
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cheshire Community Foundation - Tutoring Young Residents Programme
£19,240 23/10/2023
8
Grant to Tutors United
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Housing and Education Partnership
£456,399 01/12/2022
The funding will provide educational tutoring to disadvantaged children living in social housing in 25 locations around England. The project aims to give disadvantaged children a better transitions ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tutors United
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - [WAVE 5 LCRF] Tutoring Young Residents
£45,174 18/03/2021
11
The project is using funding to support children who have English as an additional language (EAL) mainly in East and Northwest London through after-school tuition and family support. Funding will go ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£77,700 27/11/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tutors United
£10,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Walcot Foundation - Supporting Family Learning - Small Group Tuition for Pupils and Parents
£49,221 17/03/2020
24
Supporting Family Learning - Small Group Tuition for Pupils and Parents
Walcot Foundation - Small group tuition for pupils with EAL
£32,652 17/07/2018
24
Small group tuition for pupils with EAL
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tutors United
£60,000 26/06/2018
36
Towards CEO salary costs to help the organisation expand its work to Birmingham and work with more refugee specific housing associations.
The Fore - Grant to Tutors United
£24,400 08/12/2017
24
The Fore will fund the salary of a new Programme Officer, which will allow the CEO to focus on developing new partnerships to drive forward the organisation’s strategic growth.
The Fore - Grant to Tutors United
£24,400 01/12/2017
24
While most other tutoring organisations help secondary students secure university places, Tutors United works with disadvantaged primary school children and their parents. The majority of students ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Aspire, Family Learning Project -'enabling every child to succeed'
£9,885 17/05/2017
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Islington, serving beneficiaries in Ealing and Westminster. The group will deliver a programme of educational and parental engagement activities that ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Tutors United
£50,000 08/04/2015
24
Towards salary costs for an innovative approach to raising the attainment of disadvantaged primary children, increasing beneficiary numbers and geographic reach.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-60
  • DR FREDA KAIAN CHIO TAIT Appointed: 2024
  • EMILY JANE KELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Charity Senior Manager
  • KATIE ANNA CARR Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • LAURA WILSON (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • LIAM MCLAUGHLIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Partner
  • ROBERT HOLMES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer
  • ROBERT JAMES HALE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Banking
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/02/2018, number: 1176968
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/07/2013, number: 08595641
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 1 days late,
Main office

63-66 HATTON GARDEN
LONDON
EC1N 8LE

Objectives

5.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STATE SCHOOL PUPILS IN THE UK BY PROVIDING COMMUNITY-BASED PRIVATE TUTORING PROGRAMMES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING BY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, WITH THE AIM OF:A) IMPROVING AND ADVANCING THE PUPIL'S KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECTS THEY ARE STUDYING AT SCHOOL; ANDB) IMPROVING THE PUPIL'S LEARNING SKILLS MORE GENERALLY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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