Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
    • 12+ Trustees: -1
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +8

    THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS 

    Our mission is to find social entrepreneurs with bold solutions to today's challenges. Through funding and support, we help them to realise their potential and create lasting change.This charity raises funds from the public but does not work with professional fundraisers or commercial participators.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
    • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
    Established: 22 years

    www.unltd.org.uk

    info@unltd.org.uk

    02075661100

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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£10,119£11,194£-1,075£0£161,765£13,91814.9670
    31/03/22£11,038£10,788£250£0£171,280£12,06913.4700
    31/03/21£21,780£19,013£2,768£0£161,852£6,8424.36660
    31/03/20£6,308£8,671£-2,362£0£127,314£7,9151169619
    31/03/19£6,338£8,636£-2,298£0£150,481£7,8851170492
    31/03/18£7,622£7,502£120£0£149,992£8,68913.9610
    31/03/17£5,617£8,780£-3,163£0£149,241£6,6379.1700
    31/03/16£6,070£11,259£-5,189£0£129,335£5,5175.9740
    31/03/15£12,855£14,293£-1,438£211£132,695£4,5783.8830
    31/03/14£12,200£12,077£123£179£128,821£3,5883.6890
    31/03/13£10,444£9,887£557£164£124,074£1,4741.8790
    31/03/12£9,111£8,607£504£201£111,716£3,0294.2750
    31/03/11£8,764£8,764£0£356£113,560£3,4624.7730
    31/03/10£7,354£6,881£473£434£111,644£3,1635.5640
    31/03/09£4,570£7,213£-2,643£185£88,546£4,2907.1580
    31/03/08£9,258£10,115£-857£104£108,206£6,4887.7610
    31/03/07£11,294£12,156£-862£111£116,651£7,0857590
    31/03/06£9,216£7,252£1,963£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£8,144£5,886£2,257£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£8,700£4,197£4,503£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
    Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 2%
    Liabilities/Income: 34%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 9%
    Reserves/Spending: 14.9 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
    Quick Ratio: 0.6
    Asset Split ?
    What it does
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 67 employees
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind
    How it operates
    • Makes Grants to Individuals
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Comic Relief£9,750,000
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation£150,000
    Sport England£96,818
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Sport England - Sector Renewal Fund: Rebuild: An Active and Inclusive Recovery
    £92,318 25/02/2022
    This project will better understand how social entrepreneurs will play a key function in the ‘rebuild’ of the workforce.
    Sport England - COVID19 RETURN TO PLAY
    £4,500 02/02/2022
    Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 RETURN TO PLAY. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on older ....more
    Comic Relief - Social Entrepreneurs? Fund: Support for an Equitable and Sustainable Recovery
    £9,750,000 13/10/2020
    COVID 19 - UnLtd would begin with intensive grant making (Oct 2020-Mar 2021) to support 100-150 social enterprises through the initial recovery phase as communities rebuild and trading conditions ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Leaders with Lived Experience
    £150,000 15/07/2019
    35
    To place leaders with lived experience at the heart of social change, giving them the power to deliver their own innovations, govern UnLtd’s mission, values and strategy and influence change in the ....more
    Thirty Percy Foundation - Grant to UnLtd
    £920,000 01/01/2019
    Supporting 3 cohorts of 8 social entrepreneurs on the Unltd Thrive programme, which helps ambitious social ventures to scale. The ventures have a focus on helping people furthest from the labour ....more
    Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to UnLtd
    £100,000 06/12/2018
    12
    Solutions for an Ageing Society; supporting social entrepreneurs working with older people
    DCMS - UnLtd Online Model Articles Campaign
    £54,000 26/10/2017
    To design and implement a campaign to (1) Increase awareness of purposeful business and (2) point people towards the new Online Model Articles Tool
    National Lottery Community Fund - Developing Leaders with Lived Experience
    £283,500 22/07/2017
    14
    This year-long scheme seeks to understand and test how to address this gap and ensure that people with experience of social issues have an equal opportunity to solve some of the biggest challenges ....more
    Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Southwark Awards
    £33,311 21/07/2015
    Southwark Adult Health and Social Care Awards
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to UnLtd - The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs
    £283,930 23/06/2015
    24
    Towards Solutions for an Ageing Society Awards Programme, which seeks innovative solutions that address the challenges of an ageing population, such as isolation and loneliness.
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to UnLtd - The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs
    £828,442 20/06/2013
    Towards the costs of the Lead the Change programme that will develop effective models of support for community and social entrepreneurs in 12 deprived areas of the UK.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Big Venture Challenge 2
    £8,511,501 24/10/2012
    72
    Building on Big Venture Challenge I's success, a £8,511,501 grant will help UnLtd to fund 100 social entrepreneurs. Selected from regions with underdeveloped social investment markets, ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - The Big Venture Challenge
    £2,199,478 25/01/2011
    48
    A national competition for the most social ambitious enterpreneurs in England. It will identify, fund and rapidly scale up the highest potential social entrepreneurs working with disadvantaged ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (13)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 34-70
    • AMMA MENSAH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Executive Director
    • ANNE GLOVER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Venture Capitalist
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/02/2002, number: 1090393
    • Registered at Companies House on 15/03/2001, number: 04180639
    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
    • 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
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • 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
    Main office

    UNLIMITED
    123 WHITECROSS STREET
    LONDON
    EC1Y 8JJ

    Objectives

    THE FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE TIME BEING WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION AS TO AGE, SEX, RACE, RELIGION OR OPINION:-1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY2. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    WORLDWIDE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
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