Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 4
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

THE FAIRTRADE FOUNDATION 

The Fairtrade Foundation seeks to 1. Providing an independent certification of the trade supply chain, with the FAIRTRADE Mark as the consumer guarantee.2. Facilitating the market so that producers can sell to traders and retailers in order that the market for Fairtrade grows.3.Awareness-raising among consumers of the need for Fairtrade and the importance of the FAIRTRADE Mark.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 29 years
(31 years as a company)

www.fairtrade.org.uk

mail@fairtrade.org.uk

02074055942

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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
31/12/22£12,784£12,452£332£255£6,826£6,1625.910526
31/12/21£11,515£11,591£-76£290£6,494£5,8706.110537
31/12/20£11,898£11,747£151£334£6,570£5,9676.110232
31/12/19£11,978£11,184£794£507£6,419£5,9996.49444
31/12/18£12,208£11,228£980£474£5,625£4,8485.29148
31/12/17£12,361£11,553£808£447£4,645£3,88941040
31/12/16£11,755£12,071£-316£390£3,837£3,4983.51180
31/12/15£11,347£11,013£334£451£4,153£3,9504.31080
31/12/14£11,617£11,947£-330£475£3,873£3,6473.71070
31/12/13£11,782£11,233£549£512£4,203£3,9634.21020
31/12/12£11,727£10,578£1,149£512£3,654£3,0573.51010
31/12/11£10,862£10,828£34£396£2,505£1,9712.21090
31/12/10£10,933£11,386£-453£670£2,471£1,9692.11020
31/12/09£8,725£9,608£-883£413£2,924£2,4343860
31/12/08£7,222£6,997£225£333£3,807£3,5596.1700
31/12/07£6,456£4,810£1,646£439£3,582£2,9437.3560
31/12/06£3,562£3,189£373£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£2,669£2,408£262£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£2,011£1,584£426£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 33%
Liabilities/Income: 26%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 105 employees
  • 26 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Co-Op Foundation - Fairtrade Foundation CIF project
£99,220 13/05/2022
6,000 efficient cookstoves, fuelled by briquettes made from coffee waste, will be distributed to coffee farmers in central and western Uganda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create green jobs
Comic Relief - Building Resilient ASM Communities in East Africa
£868,219 27/01/2016
48
This project helps to create a supply of Fairtrade gold through nine artisanal mining organisations in East Africa. The project will help the organisations to be better organised, more productive, ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Fairtrade Foundation Limited
£199,500 02/06/2015
24
Towards the cost of work to make the UK regulatory framework fairer for sustainable food producers while protecting the food security of UK consumers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing women in coffee
£389,831 13/10/2014
36
Not Available

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 53-69
  • GEORGE KPORYE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Executive/Farmer
  • SARAH KING Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Brand Consultant
  • TITUS PINTO Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Advisor To The United Nilgiri Tea Estates Company
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/02/1995, number: 1043886
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/07/1992, number: 02733136
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

5.7 The Loom
Gowers Walk
London
E1 8PY

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. 2. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO AND EDUCATION CONCERNING THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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