Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS 

Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to help improve the quality of peoples lives, their prospects and potential and the places where they live, work and play. Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 16 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 39 years

www.groundwork.org.uk

info@groundwork.org.uk

01212368565

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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£22,764£22,974£-209£216£5,238£2,7111.45114
31/03/22£21,674£21,647£27£186£5,608£2,7071.55115
31/03/21£24,356£22,432£1,924£134£5,524£2,4141.34315
31/03/20£25,172£24,229£943£157£3,419£2,2081.14214
31/03/19£33,293£33,202£91£252£2,490£2,1460.84114
31/03/18£28,540£28,374£166£286£2,419£2,1210.9350
31/03/17£34,390£34,361£28£290£2,000£1,7760.6340
31/03/16£5,091£5,379£-288£367£1,971£1,5533.5290
31/03/15£11,545£11,618£-74£133£2,423£1,6361.7310
31/03/14£19,402£22,260£-2,858£466£2,493£1,9611.1550
31/03/13£35,344£32,469£2,875£327£5,350£2,4680.9890
31/03/12£43,372£42,868£504£368£2,408£1,8840.5780
31/03/11£65,904£68,054£-2,150£569£1,928£1,7140.3990
31/03/10£38,257£37,657£600£641£4,077£1,5710.51200
31/03/09£27,649£26,668£981£684£3,482£2,3441.11460
31/03/08*£28,525£28,046£479£721£2,500£2,23611410
31/03/07*£27,689£27,434£255£704£2,022£1,9780.91330
31/03/06*£37,560£37,373£187£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£38,290£38,291£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£27,876£27,161£714£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 74%
Liabilities/Income: 65%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 52%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 51 employees
  • 14 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Comic Relief£7,092,500
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£5,879,956
DCMS£626,928
Co-Op Foundation£139,980
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - Green Leaders
£34,995 15/11/2022
This project will provide training to equip disadvantaged young people with the skills to become Green Leaders, and carry out social action projects improve green spaces that are young people ....more
Stockport MBC - Grant to Groundworks - Brinnington Big Local
£1,000 11/10/2022
Warm Space
Stockport MBC - Grant to Groundworks - Brinnington Big Local
£1,000 11/10/2022
Warm Space
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Neighbourhood Planning - Sector Support
£3,479,956 14/06/2021
To provide technical (technical support packages) and financial support support (grant) to neighbourhood planning groups in order to perform neighbourhood planning
Comic Relief - England Intermediary Partner 2021
£3,000,000 23/03/2021
36
Groundwork UK Intermediary Partner England. 2021-2023 Local communities funding via Groundwork UK
Co-Op Foundation - Continuation project
£69,990 21/01/2021
To take forward learning programme across England and engage new groups of young people to influence the design and use of local green spaces via the Park Action Group.
DCMS - GRCF2020: Natural Neighbourhoods - protecting greenspaces and jobs in disadvantaged communities
£554,475 25/11/2020
Green Recovery Challenge Fund 2020-21. The wider aim of the scheme is: The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and ....more
Comic Relief - England Intermediary Funding Programme
£800,000 07/05/2020
12
COVID19 - Emergency Response - This emergency funding is to enable further support to grassroots organisations across England support communities with Covid 19 response in two ways: 1.To increase the ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING - SECTOR SUPPORT
£2,400,000 01/04/2020
To provide technical (technical support packages) and financial support support (grant) to neighbourhood planning groups in order to perform neighbourhood planning.
DCMS - Future Proof Parks
£72,453 31/03/2020
Future Proof Parks
Co-Op Foundation - #iwill Community Spaces Project
£34,995 21/11/2019
A national network of young ambassadors will advocate for young people’s voices to feed into the planning and use of green spaces
Comic Relief - England Intermediary Funding Programme
£3,292,500 08/05/2019
24
Groundwork has been selected as Comic Relief's Funding partner to deliver grassroots funding opportunities across England. Groundwork shares Comic Relief’s vision of creating a just world free from ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Improving Yorkshire's Industrial Estates 18/19
£6,634 01/04/2018
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Improving Yorkshire's Industrial Estates 18/19
£13,363 01/04/2018
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Groundwork UK
£1,064,105 28/06/2017
Future Proof Parks
Sport England - Small Grants - New Participation Partners
£199,805 16/03/2017
1
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Small Grants - New Participation Partners'. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching.
Sport England - Small Grants - New Participation Partners
£199,805 16/03/2017
0
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Small Grants - New Participation Partners. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Groundwork UK
£150,000 27/07/2016
24
Towards the costs of Developing Green Young Leaders, a programme that seeks to amplify the voice of young people in defence of parks and open spaces and generally engage them in work to enhance local ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CovW/1/3 - Progress
£1,587,887 04/07/2016
28
The project will provide support to disadvantaged young people within the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP areas who are not in work, aiming to move them towards, and into, employment. The project will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CovW/1/3 Progress - building better opportunities in Coventry & Warwic
£42,500 06/11/2015
12
This grant will be used to develop plans for a project involving 18 organisations to support the area’s most marginalised and disengaged young people aged 15 to 24 through help tailored to ....more
Nesta - AC00410
£90,000 09/09/2014
Rethinking Parks programme grant to Groundwork London Grant Ref AC00410
Nesta - AC00397
£50,000 21/03/2014
Innovation in Giving programme grant to 2D Limited Grant Ref AC00397
Nesta - AC00330
£50,000 22/03/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to 2D Limited Grant Ref AC00330
National Lottery Community Fund - Support, development + learning for the Communities Living Sustainably prog
£1,707,138 15/12/2011
60
This project will support local community partnerships to help communities be better prepared for climate change, support vulnerable people to make greener choices, teach communities how to make ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (16)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 15/16 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-75
  • GRAHAM PARRY Appointed: 2022 Occupation: Charity Senior Manager
  • MARGOT MADIN Appointed: 2022 Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Nigel has over 40 years experience as an accountant, most recently as the Director of Finance for the Environment Agency, a role he held for 14 years. He retired from full-time employment in 2009 and has developed a portfolio of non-executive roles on the boards of the Marine Management Organisation, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales. He....more
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/04/1985, number: 291558
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/03/1985, number: 01900511
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 0 days late, AR06: 3 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from RIVERSIDERS TRUST on 01/09/2022
Main office

Suite B2
The Walker Building
58 Oxford Street
Birmingham
B5 5NR

Objectives

(1) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ANYWHERE IN THE UK AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.(2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE LIVING OR WORKING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.(3) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS AND OTHER WAYS OF BETTER CONSERVING PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE SAME WHERESOEVER.(4) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM.(5) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.(6) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.(7) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES IN THE DIRECT FURTHERANCE OF THEIR OBJECTS BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE.(8) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED GROUPS.FOR FULL DETAILS OF THE OBJECTS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

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