Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 3

Good reserves management: +3
Pension deficit: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -5

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 0

THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE

Providing internationally recognised qualifications, awards, assessments and support for individuals and organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas across a wide range of occupations in industry, commerce, the public services and elsewhere.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

There is a pension deficit of £15,100,000
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

Established: 30 years

www.cityandguilds.com

chris.astles@cityandguilds.com

02072942548

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/08/23	£159,000	£167,900	£-8,900	£67,000	£86,500	£83,000	5.9	1,550
31/08/22	£142,500	£146,900	£-4,400	£48,900	£103,400	£100,000	8.2	1,377
31/08/21	£129,900	£137,400	£-7,500	£43,400	£88,000	£84,300	7.4	1,371
31/08/20	£135,700	£143,800	£-8,100	£46,500	£95,900	£92,200	7.7	1,362
31/08/19	£144,200	£146,400	£-2,200	£43,200	£95,200	£91,400	7.5	1,344
31/08/18	£143,600	£155,000	£-11,400	£46,300	£105,200	£101,500	7.9	1,373
31/08/17	£142,641	£141,881	£760	£39,391	£91,317	£87,507	7.4	1,283
31/08/16	£137,371	£135,049	£2,322	£25,622	£75,256	£71,467	6.4	1,257
31/08/15	£141,051	£131,985	£9,067	£19,971	£111,033	£94,388	8.6	1,186
31/08/14	£129,853	£122,384	£7,470	£14,707	£58,997	£42,964	4.2	1,140
31/08/13?	£113,935	£110,755	£3,180	£7,403	£50,433	£35,797	3.9	1,199
30/09/12	£117,888	£116,868	£1,020	£562	£47,955	£44,272	4.5	1,148
30/09/11	£117,794	£114,301	£3,493	£674	£42,729	£39,162	4.1	1,017
30/09/10	£118,259	£110,820	£7,439	£619	£41,890	£41,890	4.5	1,075
30/09/09	£116,141	£114,976	£1,164	£593	£39,258	£39,258	4.1	1,117
30/09/08	£106,246	£102,425	£3,821	£387	£38,094	£38,094	4.5	1,079
30/09/07	£97,242	£92,973	£4,269	£1,150	£50,434	£50,434	6.5	1,053
30/09/06	£83,377	£76,977	£6,401	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/09/05	£80,631	£70,740	£9,890	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/09/04	£67,260	£66,247	£1,014	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 67.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 39.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 20%
Highest pay band: £450,000-£500,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 26%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Afghanistan, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burma, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Macau, Malawi, ....more

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

1,550 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Education - City & Guilds of London Institute
£3,000	21/10/2022	Bursary
Haberdashers' Company - Building Opportunities programme
£3,500	19/10/2022	to offer ‘Building Opportunities’ to at least 150 high-risk young people across all their hub areas
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-City & Guilds of London Institute
£3,000	22/10/2021	Bursary
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - City & Guilds of London Institute
£3,000	30/09/2020	Bursary
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 City & Guilds of London Institute
£3,000	25/10/2019	Improving support for disadvantaged children and young people

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/11 persons

CHRIS FENTON Appointed: 2017

ANDY MARCHANT Appointed: 2018

BEN WISEMAN Appointed: 2022

DR DICK PALMER Appointed: 2018

FRANK LANZA DOUGLAS Appointed: 2019

JANE ELIZABETH GIBBON Appointed: 2019

KEVIN BAUGHAN Appointed: 2017

STUART FRANCIS RUSSELL Appointed: 2024

SADRUDDIN JAMES ALEXANDER Appointed: 2023

DR ANN GERALDINE LIMB Appointed: 2014, Other trusteeships: WAVENDON ALL MUSIC PLAN LIMITED, LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALES, THE STABLES THEATRE LIMITED,

IAN AILLES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeships: RSA (THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE), HAVEN HOUSE FOUNDATION, SAFER TOURISM FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/11/1993, number: 312832

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

Giltspur House
5-6 Giltspur Street
London
EC1A 9DE

Objectives

FOR THE PURPOSES OF ALL SUCH BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND THE FINE ARTS AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT, DISSEMINATION, PROPAGATION, PROMOTION, CULTURE AND APPLICATION OF ALL SUCH BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND THE FINE ARTS AS BENEFIT OR ARE OF USE TO OR MAY BENEFIT OR BE OF USE TO PRODUCTIVE AND TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES ESPECIALLY AND TO COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY GENERALLY OR ANY BRANCH THEREOF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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