Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

THE DIFFERENCE EDUCATION LTD

Improving life outcomes for the most vulnerable children by raising the status and expertise of those who educate them.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

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
31/08/23£1,506£1,300£205£113£1,519£1,27311.7160
31/08/22£1,127£1,068£58£77£1,313£1,07412.1130
31/08/21£1,399£791£608£33£1,255£1,22718.6100
31/08/20£930£551£379£0£647£64714.180
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 19%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 11.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 14.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 5 years

www.the-difference.com

info@the-difference.com

07376 943289

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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
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
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
Mission 44£429,950
Esmee Fairbairn£264,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£230,000
ZING£55,000
Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Mission 44 - Grant to The Difference
£50,000 01/01/2024
6
Grant awarded to The Difference for a six-month period to support the formation of the “Whose Losing Learning” Coalition.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Difference Education Ltd
£24,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Mission 44 - Grant to The Difference
£4,950 28/01/2023
Capacity buildling grant to support a pilot of a software platform with 12 schools currently employing a Difference Leader Alumnus to help track alumni impact on school inclusion data including attendance, suspension and exclusion numbers, and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Scaling The Difference: Improving outcomes for the UK’s most vulnerable learners
£5,000 18/01/2023
The Difference creates specialist senior school leaders, with the expertise to lead whole-school and multi-agency approaches to meeting the learning, wellbeing and safeguarding needs of all children, and most crucially those with high levels of need ....more
Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation - KMSF - unrestricted
£50,000 01/11/2022
Towards core and capital costs
Mission 44 - Grant to The Difference
£375,000 22/07/2022
To expand the reach of The Difference's Leadership Development programme across England while engaging and positively influencing more leaders, educators to enact substantial change.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Difference Education Ltd
£240,000 26/04/2022
24
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation driving change in inclusive education, influencing Multi-Academy-Trusts and local authorities to improve outcomes for vulnerable pupils and reduce exclusions
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Difference Leader training programme
£150,000 23/03/2021
The Difference creates specialist senior school leaders, with the expertise to lead whole-school and multi-agency approaches to meeting the learning, wellbeing and safeguarding needs of all children. This grant supports the third Difference Leader ....more
ZING - Funding toward the startup of Reconnect London
£20,000 01/02/2021
Incubated by The Difference, London Reconnect is a collaborative group of London-wide school system-leaders, who have joined together to address learning loss caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The network spans the system. Local authority, foundation ....more
ZING - Core funding for years two and three of The Difference's school leadership programme
£35,000 01/11/2020
12
Seed funding toward year two of The Difference's school leadership programme, and the recruitment and training of The Difference's third cohort of leaders. This is a new career route, creating specialist teaching leaders positioned to drive ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£75,000 01/07/2020
12
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
ZING - Core funding for recruitment of a second teacher cohort
£30,000 01/09/2019
12
Seed funding toward the recruitment and training of The Difference's second cohort of leaders (now a registered charity). A new career route, creating specialist teaching leaders positioned to drive inclusion in schools, and improve outcomes for the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-76
  • CHRISTINE MEGSON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant
  • CLAIRE HEALD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Prinicipal
  • DARREN ANTONY XIBERRAS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Accountant
  • DAVE WHITAKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Learning
  • JOANNE HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • MAGDALENE BAYIM-ADOMAKO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Leadership Consultant
  • RACHID JAMES BENAMOR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • SIR ANTHONY SALZ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Lawyer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/08/2019, number: 1184843
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/06/2018, number: 11426427
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Morpeth Secondary School
Portman Place
London
E2 0PX

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) TRAINING TEACHERS AND LEADERS TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE CHILDREN.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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