Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

WORKING FAMILIES

Working Families mission is to remove the barriers that people with caring responsibilities face in the workplace. We drive positive change by supporting and advocating for working parents and carers, collaborating with employers to build flexible and family-friendly cultures, and influencing government policy.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£1,048£1,100£-52£85£242£2422.627100
31/03/23£1,048£1,041£6£65£294£2943.427150
31/03/22£958£965£-7£54£288£2883.626150
31/03/21£982£786£195£45£295£2583.920100
31/03/20?£1,071£1,057£14£58£99£440.523300
31/03/18?£1,408£1,391£17£308£126£880.8180
30/09/16£865£893£-29£146£109£670.9140
30/09/15£708£836£-127£198£138£981.4140
30/09/14£884£727£157£199£280£1412.3110
30/09/13£645£671£-26£225£125£651.2110
30/09/12£790£775£15£282£146£851.3110
30/09/11£636£632£4£153£127£891.7120
30/09/10£637£637£0£126£123£561.1100
30/09/09£675£749£-74£171£129£781.2130
30/09/08£814£722£91£182£202£1182120
30/09/07£797£791£6£210£109£460.7140
30/09/06£800£796£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/05£608£589£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04*£606£681£-75n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 66%
Liabilities/Income: 46%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 2.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 21 years

www.workingfamilies.org.uk

office@workingfamilies.org.uk

020 3833 2050

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Access to Justice Foundation£756,332
Trust for London£212,600
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
DCMS£95,584
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Dulverton Trust£40,000
AB Charitable Trust£30,000
London Legal Support Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the largest community funder in the UK, the Improving ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Working Families
£30,000 25/01/2024
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Working Families supports working parents and carers to access their employment rights, while also working with employers so that they can better support workers.
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2023
£10,000 28/12/2023
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
Trust for London - Working Families
£80,850 21/09/2023
24
The funding is for providing specialist legal advice on employment rights and in-work benefits to mostly disadvantaged (e.g., low-income, single) London parents and delivering outreach sessions to working parents via Instagram Live legal clinics; ....more
Dulverton Trust - Legal Advice Service
£40,000 07/06/2023
Legal Advice Service
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2022
£10,000 22/12/2022
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 02/12/2022
Core work delivering on the final two years of our current three-year strategy, with a particular focus on our work with working parents and carers and employers
Trust for London - Working Families
£1,750 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8450
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£150,000 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal advice, to enable users ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 24/7 virtual adviser (chatbot) to help struggling working parents and carers
£10,000 15/07/2022
The funding will be used to pay for a specialist working three days per week for six months to set up the chatbot on the website. The project aims to support working parents early and guide them to the right support.
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£41,332 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as early as possible and avoid the need for court or ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000 14/12/2021
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
John Ellerman Foundation - Head of policy and influencing salary (a core cost)
£120,000 25/03/2021
Head of policy and influencing salary (a core cost)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,584 26/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£65,000 16/07/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Trust for London - Working Families
£120,000 10/06/2020
36
The funding is for specialist legal advice on employment rights to disadvantaged London parents; delivering training to London advisers; working with London/national policymakers, to improve their understanding of work-family issues and influencing ....more
Trust for London - Working Families
£10,000 05/05/2020
3
The funding is for temporary, additional staffing for our Legal Advice Service to enable its advice team to respond to the massive increase in queries to its employment rights and benefits legal helpline. It will also help to regularly update ....more
Trust for London - Working Families
£90,000 14/06/2018
24
The funding is provide specialist legal advice on employment rights and in-work benefits, including casework, to disadvantaged London parents. Delivering more second-tier training to London advisers and outreach sessions to London parents. Building ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Accessible guidance on employment rights for working parents
£10,000 25/05/2016
12
This is a project by a charity in Southwark, serving beneficiaries across London. The group will use the funding to produce a short film and info-graphics providing up to date information and advice concerning work life balance and employment law to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Casework: Helping Parents and Carers Stand Up To Discrimination
£261,521 18/04/2012
36
This is a continuation of an existing project to provide a free England-wide legal advice service to parents facing discrimination at work, linked to parent or caring responsibilities. The service will provide timely, detailed and practical support ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Working Families
£190,319 03/11/2011
Towards policy and research activities especially parliamentary and research and information officer salary costs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Working Families
£139,217 29/01/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of a parliamentary and policy officer.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-61
  • CHARLOTTE WAYNE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Operations Director
  • CLARE KATHERINE CORBETT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Executive Director
  • DAVID JOHN ROBSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Commercial Director
  • ERIC STEVEN TOFT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • GORDON GILLIES WHYTE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ceo
  • HELEN HUMPHREYS (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Corporate Communications Director
  • MICHAEL DUNSON-ODUSANYA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
  • NEHA KULKARNI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Audit Partner
  • PAUL MICHAEL COULSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor
  • PRAJAKTA PRASAD DATAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solution Consulting Manager
  • REBECCA CLARE MCGOWAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Actuary
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/10/2003, number: 1099808
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/04/2003, number: 04727690
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
19 returns made; AR04: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE RICHARD BENJAMIN CHARITABLE TRUST on 12/05/2022
Main office

Working Families
c/o Buzzacott LLP
130 Wood Street
London
EC2V 6DL

Objectives

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF WORKING FAMILIES AND CARERS;THE RELIEF OF WORKING FAMILIES IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE;ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION (PARTICULARLY AMONGST EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES) ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING PATTERNS AND PRACTICES INCLUDING BY PROMOTING AND ADVANCING BETTER WORKING PRACTICES AND PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING FOR PEOPLE IN WORK OR SEEKING WORK INCLUDING ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AND ENTITLEMENTS AND THE PROVISION OF CARE FOR DEPENDANTS (INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES); WHERE 'WORKING FAMILIES' MEANS WORKING PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS AND/OR GUARDIANS OR CARERS, AND THE CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS FOR WHOM THEY ARE PROVIDING CARE OR SUPPORT

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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