Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 0

Spending falling: -1
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

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

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -4

INFORMATION NETWORK FOCUS ON RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform) advances public knowledge and understanding by the promotion of study and research into religions and those movements commonly known as new religious movements concerned with the exploration of spiritual life or philosophies. Inform disseminates useful results of such study and research to the public.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile recently and 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		£33	£58	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/22		£64	£50	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21		£97	£59	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£68	£75	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£86	£75	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£72	£119	£-46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£40	£137	£-97	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£44	£186	£-142	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£184	£200	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£273	£210	£63	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13?		£246	£188	£58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£102	£143	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£159	£148	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£161	£141	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£224	£131	£93	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£134	£98	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£108	£81	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£77	£65	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	*	£55	£64	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 35 years

www.inform.ac

inform@kcl.ac.uk

02078481132

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Throughout England And Wales, United States,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

AMMA ANANE-AGYEI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Social Worker

DR MARAT SHTERIN PHD

PROF HUMEIRA IQTIDAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Professor

DR GEORGE CHRYSSIDES PHD Appointed: 2014

DR GRAHAM HARVEY PHD Appointed: 2013

PROFESSOR MARK HILL QC Appointed: 2021

REV A MAGUIRE, Occupation: Minister Of Religion

DR JASJIT SINGH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Professor, Other trusteeships: SOUTH ASIAN ARTS-UK, RELIGION MEDIA CENTRE,

PROFESSOR KIM KNOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Professor

RABBI CHARLOTTE BAGINSKY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Minister Of Religion, Other trusteeship: LEO BAECK COLLEGE,

REV TOBY LEES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Roman Catholic Priest, Other trusteeships: THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS, THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CENTRE AT STONYHURST,

REV STEPHEN PATRICK HOLLINGHURST Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Researcher, Teacher And Speaker, Other trusteeship: CHRISTIAN ENQUIRY AGENCY LTD,

THE REVEREND ALAN ROBERT WALKER, Occupation: Clerk In Holy Order, Other trusteeship: HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB HERITAGE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/1989, number: 801729
Registered at Companies House on 13/02/1989, number: 02346855

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

19 returns made; AR04: 52 days late,

Main office

DEP OF THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Kings College
Virginia Woolf Building
22 Kingsway
LONDON
WC2B 6LE

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BY THE PROMOTION OF STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO RELIGIONS AND THOSE MOVEMENTS CONCERNED WITH THE EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUAL LIFE OR PHILOSOPHIES INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, CULTS, ALTERNATIVE AND NON-CONVENTIONAL RELIGIONS, SECTS, HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENTS AND NEW AGE MOVEMENTS, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH TO THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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