Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Pension deficit: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications, based at the University of Sussex. IDS hosts numerous research clusters and postgraduate courses and a host of web-based knowledge services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There is a pension deficit of £7,865,000
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/03/23£31,762£31,899£-137£53£8,607£2,1850.82600
31/03/22£29,174£29,722£-548£44£7,090£4520.22580
31/03/21£31,422£28,129£3,293£52£13,132£5,7102.42550
31/03/20£27,560£24,805£2,755£54£9,795£5,0412.42510
31/03/19£23,426£22,759£667£54£4,110£5700.32440
31/03/18£23,059£23,575£-516£52£7,447£3,1631.62490
31/03/17£23,071£21,842£1,229£42£7,518£2,3651.32480
31/03/16*£22,555£22,217£338£13£6,406£3,2141.72460
31/03/15£20,575£19,687£888£116£10,668£7,5824.62010
31/03/14£21,671£19,715£1,956£96£9,780£6,7604.12120
31/03/13£20,567£20,229£338£64£7,824£5,3533.22140
31/03/12£19,968£19,411£557£38£7,486£5,2503.22140
31/03/11£16,664£18,923£-2,259£33£6,926£5,2493.32210
31/03/10£19,109£19,345£-236£70£9,186£5,2243.22200
31/03/09£19,538£18,110£1,428£61£7,899£6,1874.12280
31/03/08£15,378£15,410£-32£40£6,492£6,1194.82150
31/03/07£13,954£14,133£-179£49£6,538£6,1415.21980
31/03/06£12,313£11,881£432n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£11,394£11,161£232n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£11,139£11,254£-115n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 25%
Reserves/Spending: 0.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 58 years

www.ids.ac.uk

ids@ids.ac.uk

01273606261

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office£3,249,600
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£348,275
DCMS£199,070
Lankelly Chase Foundation£174,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to IDS Learning Programme
£172,500 24/02/2023
12
IDS Learning Programme
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Breeding for coffee and cocoa root resilience in low input farming systems based on improved rootstocks (BOLERO)
£4,295 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10050991
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300055-116 Freedom Of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for inclusive, interdependent an
£488,993 01/04/2022
UK Aid Connect is designed to create the form of civil society that DFID needs to meet its objectives and the form of civil society the future requires. By creating diverse coalitions to address complex, inter-dependent policy and practice ....more
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300055-116 Freedom Of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for inclusive, interdependent an
£129,005 01/04/2022
UK Aid Connect is designed to create the form of civil society that DFID needs to meet its objectives and the form of civil society the future requires. By creating diverse coalitions to address complex, inter-dependent policy and practice ....more
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300981-101 COVID-19 learning, evidence and research programme for Bangladesh (CL
£51,579 01/04/2022
CLEAR will deliver research and evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities and governance.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300552-101 Partnership with the Institute of Development Studies ( IDS)
£202,930 01/04/2022
The programme will target the worst forms of child labour in Asia, including bonded child labour. It will invest in building new evidence of how best to tackle child labour, pilot and assess different approaches and support policy dialogue with ....more
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300552-109 Partnership with the Institute of Development (IDS) - Research
£1,635,194 01/04/2022
Partnership with the Institute of Development (IDS) - Research
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300552-109 Partnership with the Institute of Development (IDS) - Research
£495,859 01/04/2022
Partnership with the Institute of Development (IDS) - Research
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - 300981-101 COVID-19 learning, evidence and research programme for Bangladesh (CL
£96,040 01/04/2022
CLEAR will deliver research and evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities and governance.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Innovation and Complentary Capabilities for Vaccines
£93,980 01/02/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/W011980/1
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
£1,500 04/01/2022
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ODA Adjustment Funding-Institute of Development Studies
£250,000 01/04/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/X52525X/1
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - COVID-19 learning, evidence and research programme for Bangladesh (CLEAR)
£150,000 01/04/2021
CLEAR will deliver research and evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities and governance.
DCMS - Syrian Cultural Heritage Project
£99,535 11/01/2021
To build youth agency, initiate transformative change and establish long-term preservation pathways of heritage, and to use heritage as an entry point for redressing religious inequalities in Syria.
DCMS - Syrian Cultural Heritage Project
£99,535 01/04/2020
To build youth agency, initiate transformative change and establish long-term preservation pathways of heritage, and to use heritage as an entry point for redressing religious inequalities in Syria.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - Freedom Of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for inclusive, interdependent and diverse societies
£3,023,607 01/04/2018
To improve reproductive maternal and child health (RMCH) outcomes in Mozambique by strengthening community and institutional systems. This contributes toward the Family Planning 2020 objectives
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - Partnership with the Institute of Development Studies ( IDS)
£2,136,086 01/04/2018
This fund provides support to small and medium scale new or emerging humanitarian responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 41-78
  • AWO ABLO Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • DR ANURADHA JOSHI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Fellow
  • DR SASHA ROSENEIL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Vice Chancellor
  • ERNEST ARYEETEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • ESTHER MERGEANA MCINTOSH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Development Director
  • HA-JOON CHANG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • JENNY NATASHA CLAYTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Finance Director
  • JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO GAVIRIA Appointed: 2021
  • MUSTAFA ROBERTS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Contracts And Compliance Manager
  • PROFESSOR DEEPAK NAYYAR (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • TAMSYN BARTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/06/1966, number: 306371
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/04/1966, number: 00877338
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
FALMER
BRIGHTON
EAST SUSSEX
BN1 9RE

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE INSTITUTE IS ESTABLISHED ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTING BEST PRACTICE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:-(A) THE CONDUCT, PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH; (B) TEACHING AND TRAINING;(C) ASSISTING GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, RESOURCES AND INFORMATION TO FACILITATE THE GROWTH OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY IN DEVELOPMENT;DEVELOPMENT MEANS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGE WHICH HELPS TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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