Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK SECTION CHARITABLE TRUST 

Promotion of Human Rights (including Human Rights education, research and related activities)
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 28 years

www.amnesty.org.uk

amnestycompany.secretary@amnesty.org.uk

02070331784

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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£24,142£22,624£1,518£5,036£14,042£12,8656.815740
31/12/21£22,307£20,504£1,803£4,415£12,524£10,9346.414840
31/12/20£19,488£19,982£-494£4,517£10,721£9,1785.514620
31/12/19*£18,821£19,287£-466£4,365£11,215£10,6026.614320
31/12/18£20,122£20,004£118£5,052£11,709£11,0976.712620
31/12/17£20,233£17,373£2,860£4,526£11,569£10,8587.5650
31/12/16£16,565£15,008£1,557£3,416£8,766£8,0376.4360
31/12/15£14,333£12,753£1,580£3,267£7,105£6,3306340
31/12/14£16,213£15,199£1,014£2,960£5,121£4,2973.4310
31/12/13£14,041£14,422£-381£2,486£4,071£3,4452.9310
31/12/12£13,938£13,973£-35£2,130£4,482£3,9103.4360
31/12/11?£12,778£12,953£-175£2,937£4,517£3,9623.7350
31/03/10£12,357£13,266£-909£2,729£5,327£5,0504.6310
31/03/09£12,458£11,016£1,442£2,652£6,248£6,0126.5300
31/03/08£12,788£11,334£1,454£2,517£4,732£4,5594.8260
31/03/07£11,300£11,757£-457£3,087£3,262£3,1023.2260
31/03/06*£10,510£9,933£577£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£9,015£9,596£-581£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£6,315£6,712£-398£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 23.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 22.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 6.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Burkina Faso, Greece, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 157 employees
  • 40 volunteers

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
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Amnesty International
£500 09/03/2022
To support the work of the Crisis response team for Ukraine. From Sara Trevelyan.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Amnesty International
£25 27/06/2020
For Nasrin with all blessings - From John Frame
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Amnesty International
£75 29/02/2020
General charitable donation from Sue Hamilton
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Putting migration at the heart of Scotland’s enhanced human rights framework
£60,000 14/10/2019
18
To explore and test how new collaborations across Scotland’s migration sector can secure rights for people who have migrated to the nation, through advocacy and by influencing the government’s ....more
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£50,000 24/02/2015
12
Core funding
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£50,000 22/10/2013
Core funding
Indigo Trust - To develop an online platform to map forced evictions of slum dwellers
£16,000 14/03/2012
To support Amnesty to develop an online platform to map forced evictions of slum dwellers in Kenya.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-71
  • HELEN HORTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Lecturer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/01/1996, number: 1051681
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/12/1995, number: 03139939
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR19: 44 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 15 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
17-25 NEW INN YARD
LONDON
EC2A 3EA

Objectives

TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OFHUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONSAND DECLARATIONS AND IN REGIONAL CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICHINCORPORATE THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE UDHR AND THOSE SUBSEQUENTCONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THEFOLLOWING MEANS:-(A) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS(B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(C) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(D) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(E) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS(F) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMANRIGHTS MATTERS;(G) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW;(H) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;(I) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(J) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;(K) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS ANDCORPORATIONS;(L) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; AND(M) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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