Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

THE DHL UK FOUNDATION 

Vision: An end to youth unemploymentMission: For the Foundation, and DHL colleagues across the UK, to work together to help our charity and school partners ensure that disadvantaged young people aged 5 to 25 years have access to the best possible education, develop essential life skills and the opportunity to secure meaningful and sustainable employment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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£661£2,496£-1,835£0£32,166£5572.78899
31/03/22£567£2,196£-1,630£0£35,805£2,48513.67623
31/03/21£441£2,113£-1,673n/an/an/an/an/a294
31/03/20£596£2,035£-1,439£0£28,860£3,91023.17803
31/03/19£684£2,269£-1,585£0£30,816£5,34928.37794
31/03/18£724£2,034£-1,310£0£30,917£4,5822770
31/03/17£1,135£1,927£-791£0£30,750£3,14719.650
31/03/16£1,879£2,387£-508£0£28,417£1,4197.140
31/03/15£2,452£2,237£214£167£30,386£4412.400
31/03/14£2,032£2,082£-50£161£27,608£1961.140
31/03/13£1,714£1,634£80£118£26,755£2141.640
31/03/12£1,688£1,601£87£122£24,319£1471.140
31/03/11£1,526£1,545£-19£133£25,256£510.440
31/03/10£1,426£1,507£-81£96£23,760£1921.540
31/03/09£1,350£1,216£135£85£18,066£950.940
31/03/08£1,213£1,046£167£73£22,704£6297.230
31/03/07£990£682£308£80£23,801£4027.130
31/03/06*£1,166£1,110£56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,064£1,247£-183£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£954£914£40£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 2%
Reserves/Spending: 2.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 4.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 36 years

www.dhlukfoundation.org

GoTeachUK@dhl.com

01344384756

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
  • 899 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-57
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/07/1988, number: 327880
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/02/1988, number: 02223373
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 2 days late,
Main office

Eastworth House
Eastworth Road
CHERTSEY
Surrey
KT16 8SH

Objectives

The objects of the Charity (the “Objects”) are, for the public benefit:3.1.1 the advancement of education, training and employment support to young people aged between 5 and 25 years, in particular, but without limitation, those who the Trustees, in their discretion, determine to be disadvantaged; 3.1.2 the relief of need by reason of financial hardship, for current and former employees of the DHL Group (or predecessors of any of the DHL Group entities or their business activities) and their families, at the discretion of the Trustees; and3.1.3 the advancement of general purposes which are exclusively charitable under the law of England and Wales.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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