Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 8

Poor Liquidity: -1
Pension deficit: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 12

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 13 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
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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23		£31,762	£31,899	£-137	£53	£8,607	£2,185	0.8	260
31/03/22		£29,174	£29,722	£-548	£44	£7,090	£452	0.2	258
31/03/21		£31,422	£28,129	£3,293	£52	£13,132	£5,710	2.4	255
31/03/20		£27,560	£24,805	£2,755	£54	£9,795	£5,041	2.4	251
31/03/19		£23,426	£22,759	£667	£54	£4,110	£570	0.3	244
31/03/18		£23,059	£23,575	£-516	£52	£7,447	£3,163	1.6	249
31/03/17		£23,071	£21,842	£1,229	£42	£7,518	£2,365	1.3	248
31/03/16	*	£22,555	£22,217	£338	£13	£6,406	£3,214	1.7	246
31/03/15		£20,575	£19,687	£888	£116	£10,668	£7,582	4.6	201
31/03/14		£21,671	£19,715	£1,956	£96	£9,780	£6,760	4.1	212
31/03/13		£20,567	£20,229	£338	£64	£7,824	£5,353	3.2	214
31/03/12		£19,968	£19,411	£557	£38	£7,486	£5,250	3.2	214
31/03/11		£16,664	£18,923	£-2,259	£33	£6,926	£5,249	3.3	221
31/03/10		£19,109	£19,345	£-236	£70	£9,186	£5,224	3.2	220
31/03/09		£19,538	£18,110	£1,428	£61	£7,899	£6,187	4.1	228
31/03/08		£15,378	£15,410	£-32	£40	£6,492	£6,119	4.8	215
31/03/07		£13,954	£14,133	£-179	£49	£6,538	£6,141	5.2	198
31/03/06		£12,313	£11,881	£432	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£11,394	£11,161	£232	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£11,139	£11,254	£-115	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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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 ?

Established: 58 years

www.ids.ac.uk

ids@ids.ac.uk

01273606261

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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

Social & legal advocacy

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 works here?

260 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

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office	£6,349,201
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	£348,275
DCMS	£199,070
Lankelly Chase Foundation	£1,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
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 ....more 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 challenges it answers a market gap widely recognised through the CSPR.
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 ....more 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 challenges it answers a market gap widely recognised through the CSPR.
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 ....more 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 governments and regional bodies. As a regional programme, it will also engage closely with DFID country offices to help them scale up work on child labour in their programmes in the future.
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.
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 ....more 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 challenges it answers a market gap widely recognised through the CSPR.
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 ....more 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 challenges it answers a market gap widely recognised through the CSPR.
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 ....more 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 governments and regional bodies. As a regional programme, it will also engage closely with DFID country offices to help them scale up work on child labour in their programmes in the future.
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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How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-77

DR SASHA ROSENEIL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Vice Chancellor

HA-JOON CHANG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

TAMSYN BARTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

AWO ABLO Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

ERNEST ARYEETEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO GAVIRIA Appointed: 2021

DR ANURADHA JOSHI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Fellow

ESTHER MERGEANA MCINTOSH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Development Director

KIM FROST Appointed: 2018, Occupation: University Secretary And Director Of Hr

MUSTAFA ROBERTS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Contracts And Compliance Manager

PROFESSOR MELISSA LEACH Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Professor

PROFESSOR DEEPAK NAYYAR (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director

JENNY NATASHA CLAYTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Finance Director, Other trusteeship: TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UK,

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

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