Overall GiG Score: 24 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

GLOBAL ACTION PLAN 

Global Action Plan is a charity that's working for a green and thriving planet where we can live happily without ruining the Earth we depend on. We're experts in helping people live more sustainable lifestyles. We do this by making connections between what's good for people and good for the planet.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 31 years

www.globalactionplan.org.uk

info@globalactionplan.org.uk

0204 566 9904

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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£2,246£2,304£-58£221£432£3181.7371
31/03/22£2,705£2,677£28£77£491£3401.5362
31/03/21£1,634£1,920£-286£55£463£2691.7242
31/03/20£2,023£1,664£360£24£748£1611.22015
31/03/19£1,104£1,638£-534£23£389£580.4206
31/03/18£2,518£1,994£524£22£923£2201.3230
31/03/17£2,273£2,183£90£28£398£-49-0.3300
31/03/16£2,596£2,509£88£30£308£1100.5340
31/03/15£2,564£2,383£180£134£256£720.4320
31/03/14£1,786£1,714£72£123£75£-82-0.6270
31/03/13£1,601£1,585£16£99£3£-104-0.8280
31/03/12£1,671£2,050£-379£138£-13£-52-0.3370
31/03/11£3,104£3,147£-44£69£366£3421.3600
31/03/10£3,308£2,998£310£75£410£760.3520
31/03/09£2,953£2,932£21£67£100£470.2530
31/03/08£2,433£2,246£187£69£78£360.2440
31/03/07£1,601£1,605£-4£62£-108£-156-1.2390
31/03/06£1,173£1,176£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,024£1,157£-133£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,101£1,196£-95£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 1.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 37 employees
  • 1 volunteer
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bermuda, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Throughout England And Wales, Turkey,

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
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity£545,150
Esmee Fairbairn£370,000
National Lottery Community Fund£222,426
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£219,571
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
Trust for London£100,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£90,000
J J Charitable Trust£54,275
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Global Action Plan
£20,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Trust for London - Global Action Plan
£100,000 01/02/2023
The funding is for a project to bring new voices, greater urgency and a higher level of ambition into the 2024 London elections debate about air pollution. They will do this by organising, ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - GAP Wood burning Winter Engagement Campaign
£99,900 16/11/2022
To support Global Action Plan to disseminate research and insights on wood burning behaviour and to add a wood burning specific area to the Clean Air Hub, hosted by Global Action Plan
J J Charitable Trust - To develop its strategy and national advocacy campaign to reorient the English education system
£54,275 30/09/2022
To develop its strategy and national advocacy campaign to reorient the English education system
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - GLA Schools Helpdesk - Year 2
£55,000 07/06/2022
To support the London Schools Pollution Helpdesk to help schools reduce their exposure to air pollution
National Lottery Community Fund - The Schools Good Life Challenge
£222,426 01/12/2021
Global Action Plan will work with a range of schools across Hammersmith and Fulham to design test and share a model for schools to become beacons for sustainable consumption. The project aims for a ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - CA21-2 Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Outreach
£0 29/09/2021
Lot 1: Children And Lot 2: Adults
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Enhancing Air Quality Communications
£103,525 12/08/2021
Deliverables continue to 31.08.2022This grant agreement will support GAP to deliver the following strands of work:-A. User testing and improvement to the Clean Air HubB. Expansion of the mobilising ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Global Action Plan
£300,000 07/07/2021
36
Towards project costs for a large-scale young person-led campaign pressing for an end to online behavioural advertising that causes mental ill-health, increased air pollution, and a broken climate.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GAP Clean Air Day 2021 Grant
£51,066 10/06/2021
CAD supports the department's strategic and ambitious goals to improve air quality. The focus of CAD this year will be on protecting children's health from air pollution. There will be a particular ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - GLA London Schools Pollution Helpdesk
£55,000 26/01/2021
Building on the Mayor of London's 2017 School Air Quality Audit Programme, the Greater London Authority is establishing the London Schools Pollution Helpdesk (the Helpdesk) to centralise and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 09/10/2020
Transform our World
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GAP Clean Air Day 2020 grant
£44,980 08/10/2020
Raise awareness of air pollution as an environmental and health issue in the UK. Encourage businesses and other organisations to better understand air quality issues and identify approaches to ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Lambeth schools clean air pilot
£241,750 23/09/2020
To assess air pollution and identify interventions in 5 of the most polluted schools in Lambeth
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Global Action Plan (GAP)
£50,000 23/04/2020
6
Towards COVID-19 extra support grant
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - COVID Clean air response
£93,500 05/04/2020
A project to understand the impact of Covid-19 on air pollution and the potential long-term implications
John Ellerman Foundation - Salaries of the air quality team and campaign costs including event, design, PR and paid promotion costs
£120,000 26/03/2020
36
Salaries of the air quality team and campaign costs including event, design, PR and paid promotion costs
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Global Action Plan
£90,000 21/03/2020
20
Campaign for an Ad-Free Childhood
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GAP Clean Air Hub grant
£20,000 14/10/2019
The aim of this activity is to grant funding towards Global Action Plan’s “Clean Air Hub” and training of medical professionals as Air Quality Champions. The Clean Air Hub will be targeted ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Transform Our World
£185,850 29/03/2019
24
Transform Our World
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Global Action Plan
£110,000 01/12/2018
15
Consumerism and young people's wellbeing
Mark Leonard Trust - Clean Air Strategy and support worm with young people
£45,000 20/06/2018
Towards Clean Air Day, and for placing young people at the core of the marketing strategy
Mark Leonard Trust - Digital media Assistant
£45,000 11/07/2017
Towards its work to establish a strong youth voice for GAP and develop a digital strategy with youth digital influencers.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Global Action Plan (GAP)
£15,000 24/05/2017
6
Towards the development of a communications and marketing strategy to support Global Action Plan to launch a new approach working with young people to tackle the environmental problem of ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Global Action Plan (GAP)
£30,000 05/11/2013
Towards core costs and the salary of a post to support collaboration with individuals, businesses, schools and communities to reduce their impact on the environment.
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Global Action Plan (GAP)
£300,000 14/10/2010
An investment via revenue participation in GAP for the development of four new products and services to support the growth of the organisation.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 20-73
Jonathan has a commercial background and has held a number of senior positions in strategy, business development, line management and finance for both large public companies and more recently as the chair of various entrepreneurial and private equity backed ventures. Over the last few years, as the chair of smaller high growth businesses his....more
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/09/1993, number: 1026148
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/07/1993, number: 02838296
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LONDON SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE on 10/11/2021
Main office

Notcutt House
36 Southwark Bridge Road
London
SE1 9EU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR WHICH IS NOT HARMFUL TO MAN AND OTHER LIVING SPECIES AND TO PLANETARY ECOLOGY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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