Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

SURREY SATRO 

SATRO is an educational charity which has been working across the South East since 1984. We inspire and engage young people in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), both in terms of subject choices and the career paths they lead onto.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 30 years

www.satro.org.uk

anne.edward@satro.org.uk

01483688070

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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
31/08/22£659£606£53£26£426£354717150
31/08/21£684£537£147£20£373£2485.514110
31/08/20£570£542£28£20£226£1252.81093
31/08/19£622£699£-78£38£198£921.614354
31/08/18?£909£861£48£64£276£1532.112258
31/03/17£571£527£43£41£228£1493.4110
31/03/16£551£506£45£28£185£1122.7100
31/03/15£721£670£51£29£140£891.6110
31/03/14£673£682£-9£34£90£821.4110
31/03/13£604£670£-65£53£99£881.680
31/03/12£790£870£-80£28£164£1542.1130
31/03/11£859£874£-15£13£244£2323.2210
31/03/10£912£898£13£20£259£2593.5210
31/03/09*£1,014£1,067£-53£27£310£3063.4220
31/03/08£944£911£33£16£334£3024170
31/03/07£732£720£12£18£302£2834.7170
31/03/06£532£546£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£627£640£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£536£526£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 6.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 150 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Throughout London, West Berkshire, West Sussex,

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
Community Foundation for Surrey£123,770
Garfield Weston Foundation£85,000
Henry Smith Charity£19,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - SEN Vocational Construction
£10,000 26/08/2022
Funding towards a mobile classroom enabling young people on the edges of the education system to become reengaged via construction skills
Community Foundation for Surrey - Games Club Pilot - Surrey
£10,000 21/07/2022
Funding for a targeted Games Club pilot scheme to be run in Surrey schools to encourage young people into the software and creative industries
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 19/11/2021
SATRO - Our New Way Forward
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO's Vocational Construction Skills to Young People with Additional Needs in Education
£10,000 01/11/2021
8
Funding towards the staff costs and day-to-day costs of a Mobile Construction classroom by an organisation that offers qualifications for disadvantaged young people in Surrey.
Community Foundation for Surrey - STEM Learning for disadvantaged Leaners across Surrey
£10,000 17/06/2021
11
The grant will support SATRO's work developing skills, aspirations and career opportunities for disadvantaged and excluded students in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 06/11/2020
SATRO - Our New Way Forward
Community Foundation for Surrey - Essential running costs for Mobile Classroom project
£17,500 14/04/2020
11
Essential running costs for a mobile construction classroom project.
Community Foundation for Surrey - 2 year contribution towards the costs of a Mobile Construction classroom to provide qualifications for disadvantaged young people in Surrey
£19,900 01/04/2020
23
2 year contribution towards the costs of a Mobile Construction classroom to provide qualifications for disadvantaged young people in Surrey
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to SATRO
£19,900 19/03/2020
24
towards two years' running costs of the Mobile Construction programme, providing a BTEC qualification in construction and building services to disadvantaged young people in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO Extended Work Placement Scheme
£10,000 07/02/2020
7
Extended work placement scheme for girls in STEM businesses
Community Foundation for Surrey - Halow - SATRO Mobiles Classroom
£5,000 21/10/2019
8
Mobile classroom project with Halow Charity.
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO Mentoring Programme
£3,870 22/07/2019
5
Mentoring programme for young people at risk of becoming disengaged with their education.
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO Mobiles Classroom - Continuation of funding
£10,000 08/07/2019
10
Mobile skills provision for young people in alternative education provision in Reigate and Ashtead.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Essential running costs for Mobile Classroom project
£17,500 26/06/2019
11
Essential running costs for a mobile construction classroom project.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 16/04/2019
Inspiring Young People In STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£6,200 01/02/2019
students will gain employability skills students will gain research skills relevant to their STEM placement students will complete a four week work placement students will gain the prestigious Gold ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Work Placements for Academically Gifted but Economically Disadvantaged Students
£6,200 18/12/2018
12
Funding to place academically gifted but economically disadvantaged female students (aged 17) in four week summer work placements linked to STEM subjects.
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO - Laptops
£6,500 25/07/2018
9
Laptops for use in primary schools to teach algorithmic programming.
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO education programmes for young people in Surrey
£7,500 19/06/2018
11
Multi project application for Mobile Classrooms, CAD training and TeenTech
Community Foundation for Surrey - Mobile construction education program
£17,500 18/06/2018
11
Support for the Mobile Construction Classrooms for disadvantaged / disengaged young people and those with SEN, and Student awards.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Match Funding re Employee Fundraising
£12,232 02/05/2018
Match Funding re Employee Fundraising
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to SATRO
£15,000 08/02/2018
purchase of van for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Guildford
Community Foundation for Surrey - Mobile Classrooms Core
£17,500 16/11/2017
11
Core funding of Mobile Construction Bus Programme and Carl Burrows Trust Awards
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO Mobile Construction Classroom for young people and those with Special Educational Needs .
£7,500 23/10/2017
10
Mobile Construction Classroom for disadvantaged / disengaged young people and those with SEN.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 02/10/2017
STEMX - raising aspirations, employability and engagement for the next generation
National Lottery Community Fund - STEMX - inspiring underrepresented young people about their futures
£9,750 26/07/2017
12
This project will use the funding to run extra-curricular activities for black and minority ethnic groups and other disadvantaged young people.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Reigate Valley School - Teaching Excluded Students Vocational Qualifications
£7,250 14/02/2017
10
Mobile Construction Classroom for disadvantaged pupils at a School in Reigate & Banstead.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to SATRO
£20,000 08/09/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Mobile Construction' programme, delivering BTEC qualifications in construction and building services to disadvantaged young people in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - SATRO Mobile Classroom - Woodlands School
£6,500 12/07/2016
10
Mobile Construction Classroom costs for students with severe and profound learning difficulties to work towards a BTEC certification.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to SATRO
£20,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of a mobile vocational training project in Surrey that teaches construction and building skills to disadvantaged young people
National Lottery Community Fund - SATRO Construction Bus -Transforming young lives
£10,000 02/05/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity based in Surrey. The organisation will use the funding to deliver basic construction trade skills and confidence building training to previously homeless ....more
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How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 33-65
  • PAULA PAIVAND GOUGH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chartered Engineer & Associate Director - Engineer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/09/1994, number: 1040572
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/08/1994, number: 02957349
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR09: 150 days late,
Main office

Surrey Technology Centre
40 Occam Road
Surrey Research Park
Guildford
GU2 7YG

Objectives

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS PRACTICE, AND ASSOCIATED SKILLS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE COUNTY OF SURREY

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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