Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 14

THE FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE

The Fair Education Alliance is a coalition of cross-sector member organisations. We promote equality of education provision through driving collective action, influencing policy and scaling impactful initiatives.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23	£957	£766	£191	£0	£616	£570	8.9	13	0
31/08/22	£898	£793	£105	£8	£425	£379	5.7	10	0
31/08/21	£896	£713	£183	£5	£320	£256	4.3	10	17
31/08/20	£395	£258	£137	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 8.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 4.8

Asset Split ?

Established: 4 years

www.faireducation.org.uk

info@faireducation.org.uk

02038628000

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Secondary schools

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

13 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

ZING	£100,000
Mission 44	£41,500
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£16,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Mission 44 - Grant to The Fair Education Alliance
£41,500	10/03/2023	To support FEA to build the capacity across their membership in youth engagement and participation and transform the sector's youth engagement practise.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Backbone grants 2021-22 supporting a thriving civil society
£16,000	18/01/2023	The Fair Education Alliance is a coalition of over 200 organisations including charities, business, social enterprise, policy and educational institutions, which aims to tackle inequality in the ....more The Fair Education Alliance is a coalition of over 200 organisations including charities, business, social enterprise, policy and educational institutions, which aims to tackle inequality in the education system. The Fair Education Alliance’s vision is that no child’s success is limited by their socio-economic background. They support organisations to work together to take collective action, influence policy and practice and help organisations scale their impact to reach more children.
ZING - Digital transformation programme
£30,000	01/01/2022 12	Funding and in-kind digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA membership, regularly gathering membership data for both the ....more Funding and in-kind digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA membership, regularly gathering membership data for both the secretariat and members, and the piloting of tools to effectively leverage this data, aiming to improve collaboration across the membership. This is core funding toward covering the role of a digital project manager, and the piloting of tools with the membership.
ZING - Digital transformation programme
£35,000	01/01/2021 12	Funding and in-kind digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA membership, regularly gathering membership data for both the ....more Funding and in-kind digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA membership, regularly gathering membership data for both the secretariat and members, and the piloting of tools to effectively leverage this data, aiming to improve collaboration across the membership. This is core funding toward covering the role of a digital project manager, and the piloting of tools with the membership.
ZING - Digital transformation programme
£35,000	01/01/2020 12	Funding and digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme, as the Fair Education Alliance becomes independent from Teach First. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA ....more Funding and digital support toward the roll out of a digital transformation programme, as the Fair Education Alliance becomes independent from Teach First. This strand covers the auditing of the FEA membership, regularly gathering membership data for both the secretariat and members, and the piloting of tools to effectively leverage this data, aiming to improve collaboration across the membership. This core funding covers the role of a project manager in 2020, who will manage the execution of a digital transformation plan, including member audit and digital FEA member services.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-59

CHUKWUZULUM ELUMOGO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: University Management

DAME JULIA CLEVERDON DCVO Appointed: 2019

NICK WRIGHT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Managing Director

OLAMIDE ODANYE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager

DR VANESSA OGDEN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director, Other trusteeship: Unicorn Theatre London Ltd,

NATALIE PERERA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Director

RUSSELL HOBBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

BRETT WIGDORTZ Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant, Other trusteeship: Bite Back 2030,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/02/2020, number: 1188042
Registered at Companies House on 15/03/2019, number: 11884952

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
Conflicting interests
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

Fair Education Alliance
8-10 GROSVENOR GARDENS
LONDON
SW1W 0DH

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY IN EDUCATION PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES.

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