Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 15
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +15
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

RESURGO TRUST

Overview

Resurgo addresses youth unemployment through its Spear programme, offering tailored support, mentorship, and job placement services to help young adults facing barriers to employment get into work or education. By partnering with businesses, it equips them with skills and opportunities, fostering self-sufficiency and community transformation.

They are now providing a slimmed down version of the programme to reduce delivery cost. This comes off a national evaluation of their programme that highlighted significantly higher positive outcomes are being achieved by their programme, when compared against similar interventions in the sector.

Source: Giving is Great

Mission:

To inspire and equip organisations to create ambitious and sustainable social change, through expertise in coaching, impact management and programme design and delivery
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

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
31/12/23£3,796£3,439£357£374£4,804£4,68716.462206
31/12/22£3,555£2,980£574£301£4,447£4,31917.457168
31/12/21£3,281£2,123£1,158£263£3,873£3,57320.240259
31/12/20£2,779£2,075£704£396£2,714£2,39613.946180
31/12/19£2,618£2,400£218£384£2,010£1,5297.646180
31/12/18£2,393£2,248£145£368£1,792£1,4978430
31/12/17£1,936£2,001£-65£231£1,647£1,4668.8430
31/12/16£2,026£1,990£37£213£1,712£1,5019.1470
31/12/15£2,051£1,616£435£197£1,675£1,53611.4400
31/12/14£1,736£1,278£457£177£1,241£1,0209.6320
31/12/13£1,130£943£186£157£783£7028.9250
31/12/12£1,040£891£149£109£597£5557.5230
31/12/11£836£712£124£53£448£4327.3230
31/12/10£664£550£114£52£324£2886.3190
31/12/09£491£447£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£390£320£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£211£191£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£182£133£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£51£93£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£101£74£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 16.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 16 months
Quick Ratio: 16.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Comment: Reserves are expected to reduce in 2024 as investment is made in new centres

Source: Giving is Great

Established: 21 years

www.resurgo.org.uk

info@resurgo.org.uk

020 3475 0431

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What it does
The principle activities of Resurgo are outworked through Spear (a year-long programme helping young people facing barriers to work into sustainable employment) and Resurgo Consulting (providing coaching and impact management to support organisations to drive social change).
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Mentoring and leadership support
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Caerphilly, Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Impetus PEF£1,160,798
Greenwood Place£600,000
Tuixen Foundation£325,000
The EQ Foundation£110,000
Dulverton Trust£105,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£50,000
The Childhood Trust£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£60,000 29/04/2024
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£20,000 23/02/2024
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£10,000 12/01/2024
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£60,000 06/07/2023
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Resurgo Trust
£25,000 26/05/2023
Post of Graduate Coach at the Kennington Spear Centre
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£22,500 06/03/2023
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£10,000 14/12/2022
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Dulverton Trust - Helping Spear Brighton to Thrive
£70,000 19/10/2022
Helping Spear Brighton to Thrive
Impetus PEF -
£457,996 01/08/2022
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£60,000 19/07/2022
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£100,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£150,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£50,000 01/04/2022
Unrestricted funding
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£25,000 15/12/2021
Unrestricted
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£15,000 02/12/2021
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 15/10/2021
24
Spear Brighton: helping Brighton's young people to re-imagine their future
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£60,000 21/07/2021
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through training and mentoring of both employees and employers.
Impetus PEF -
£283,267 01/07/2021
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£150,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£100,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
The Childhood Trust - A Future to Believe In
£20,000 22/06/2021
Young people in London face huge challenges due to Covid-19, with unemployment rising rapidly. The Spear Programme, running in 8 locations across the city, reaches the most vulnerable young people and equips them to get into work or education. Your ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Resurgo Trust
£20,000 18/03/2021
Towards the salary of the Employer Partnership Manager (C-19 Extension)
Greenwood Place - Grant to Resurgo
£50,000 01/12/2020
Unrestricted funding
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Resurgo
£25,000 15/11/2020
Unrestricted
Dulverton Trust - Spear Brighton
£35,000 21/10/2020
Spear Brighton
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Resurgo Trust
£25,000 26/08/2020
Kennington Spear Centre - post of graduate coach
The Childhood Trust - Give vulnerable young people hope for their future
£20,000 03/07/2020
The Spear Programme works with vulnerable, unemployed young people, helping them get into work or education. With unemployment set to grow amidst the serious economic impact of coronavirus, they need our support more than ever. With your help, we ....more
Impetus PEF -
£419,535 01/07/2020
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 24/04/2020
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£17,500 15/12/2019
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£7,500 10/10/2019
Unrestricted
Walcot Foundation - Spear Kennington 2019-22
£24,000 16/07/2019
12
Spear Kennington 2019-22
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 11/07/2019
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
Impetus PEF -
£350,000 01/07/2019
Wates Foundation - Resurgo Trust
£10,000 07/05/2019
The Spear programme starts with an initial six-week phase, Spear Foundation, where sessions are four days a week (2-5 pm, with some morning sessions). ..
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£12,000 15/12/2018
Unrestricted via Big Give Xmas Appeal
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Resurgo Trust
£40,000 03/12/2018
24
Towards the salary of a Corporate Partnerships Manager (Apprenticeships) to lead a programme that aims to help bridge the gap between businesses and disadvantaged young people.
Dulverton Trust - Spear Project in Brighton
£35,000 25/10/2018
Spear Project in Brighton
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£12,000 15/10/2018
Unrestricted
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 10/08/2018
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
Impetus PEF -
£275,000 01/07/2018
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£25,000 15/10/2017
Unrestricted
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 11/07/2017
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
Impetus PEF -
£400,000 01/07/2017
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 03/05/2017
24
Spear Islington Centre
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£25,000 15/11/2016
Unrestricted
Impetus PEF -
£400,000 01/07/2016
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 23/06/2016
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
The Blagrave Trust - Impact and growth plan
£150,000 01/11/2015
NEET young people ? 16 ? 24 years old
ZING - Core funding to develop the Spear Course model
£15,000 01/11/2015
12
Core funding to further develop the Spear Course programme as it moves to Phase 3 of the Impetus-PEF process
ZING - Core funding to develop the Spear Course model
£60,000 01/10/2015
12
Core funding to further develop the Spear Course programme as it moves to Phase 3 of the Impetus-PEF process
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Spear - Resurgo Trust
£105,000 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing support to young people who are not in education, employment or training in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£25,000 15/09/2015
Unrestricted
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Resurgo
£50,000 15/07/2015
Resurgo (SPEAR) support 16-24 year olds into work and help them stay there through the training and mentoring of employees and employers.
The EQ Foundation - Grant to RESURGO TRUST
£15,000 15/11/2014
Unrestricted
ZING - Core funding to develop and scale the Spear Course model
£105,000 01/04/2014
Core funding to develop the Spear Course model and scale to another centre
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Spear - Resurgo Trust
£75,000 14/03/2012
36
towards three years' salary and related costs of a Lead Coach at a centre that provides support to NEET young people in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Samworth Foundation - Education & Vocational Training
£93,000 26/01/2012
Setting up a centre (based at St Mark's, Battersea) to educate disadvantaged youth in the parish
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How do they operate?

Spear Classic Programme

Objectives: To help young people facing barriers to employment get into work or education

Intervention period: 6 weeks

Beneficiaries: Young adults facing barriers to employment

Description: Spear Programme participants complete an intensive 6-week course designed to give them the skills, confidence and motivation they need to enter into work. The programme uses coaching to help overcome challenging attitudes and behaviours, gives practical training such as writing a good CV and mock interview practice, helps with job applications and provides extended support once a young person has gained employment.

Spear Streamline

Objectives: To help young people facing barriers to employment get into work or education

Intervention period: 4 weeks

Location: Regional cities

Description: This is a slimmed down version of the Classic programme, partly delivered remotely.

How effective are they?
Outputs
Outcomes
Y/EPeople enrolling in Spear Programme% of People completing the programmePeople who cease to be NEET
31/12/20231,05474%780
31/12/202289575%537
31/12/202185580%513
Commentary: The Spear Programme was evaluated by the DWP Employment DataLab for a cohort of 954 participants who participated between 2015 & 2017. This study indicated that after the intervention 40% of the cohort were classified as NEET, compared with 48% without any intervention. This suggests that the additionality of the Spear Programme is in the region 8/100 participants.
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How do we calculate this?

Who works here?

  • IONA LEDWIDGE
    CEO
    Appointed: February 2024
Iona is an International Coach Federation-accredited coach at MCC level, having trained with the Academy of Executive Coaching.
  • PETE BACON
    Executive Director of Impact
    Appointed: January 2020
Pete has worked in the charity sector for over ten years, and joined Resurgo as part of the coaching team in 2009 before managing a number of the central Spear centres. He joined the Impact team while Spear was embarking on the Theory of Change process, and pioneered Resurgo’s internal quality and development work with a particular focus on coaching quality. He now oversees Impact for Resurgo, and also delivers the Coaching For Leadership ....more
  • ROSIE EVANS
    Director of Strategy
    Appointed: April 2022
Rosie was previously a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and at social consultancy the Good Faith Partnership, where she led projects that brought different groups together to tackle social challenges. Rosie has over 10 years’ experience in the charity and social enterprise sector, where she specialised in designing and delivering programmes to deliver sustainable social change at scale. Rosie is the Chair of the RAMP Project, a ....more
  • SOPHIE BURROWS
    Director of People, Culture and Operations
    Appointed: January 2022
Having qualified as a solicitor with a City firm with experience in charity and employment law, Sophie’s career experience to date covers a breadth of roles including church and charity settings, both in project management/operational roles, and leading teams, facilitating people development.
  • EMMA BARNES
    Director of External Relations
    Appointed: June 2022
  • PRINCE LARYEA
    Director of Corporate Engagement
    Appointed: July 2023

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-59
  • CAROLYN LONGTON Appointed: 2019 Occupation: Retired
Carrie is co-founder of Mumsnet, an online community of parents sharing advice, support and product recommendations. Prior to Mumsnet she was a TV producer, creating prime time Saturday night shows and travel documentaries. In November 2018, she exited Mumsnet and is now pursuing other interests including being a trustee of Resurgo, working with....more
  • CLEMMIE READ Appointed: 2016 Occupation: Social Worker
Clemmie is a child protection social worker based in Hammersmith and Fulham and gained an MSc in social work through the Frontline graduate programme. She holds a BA in History from Jesus College, Cambridge. As a former Children and Families’ Pastor at St Paul’s Hammersmith, she has been a supporter of Resurgo for a number of years.
  • EGERTON JUNIOR BAYODE Appointed: 2020 Occupation: Product Manager/Life Coach
Egerton (Junior) Bayode is the first former Spear Programme trainee to join Resurgo’s trustees, having spent time coaching and serving on the board at Spear Bethnal Green. Junior is Vice President at Citi, having previously worked for financial tech company – NASDAQ. He also led NASDAQ’s UK Global Link Of Black Employees (GLOBE) network,....more
  • REV THOMAS CHARLES JACKSON (Chair) Appointed: 2024 Occupation: Reverend
  • SEEMA PATERSON Appointed: 2018 Occupation: Chief Operating Officer of This Works
Seema is currently COO of This Works, a natural wellness oriented beauty brand which is the number one brand to link sleep with good skin health. Prior to joining This Works, she was CFO/COO of Nails Inc. and prior to that, spent 15 years working in the financial services industry for Collins Stewart (now Canaccord Genuity). She is a chartered....more
  • THOMAS SHIPPEY Appointed: 2013 Occupation: Finance Director
Tom is Group Finance Director of Ashmore Group, a specialist emerging markets investment management company based in London. Prior to joining Ashmore in 2007, Tom worked for UBS Investment Bank, including advising on the Ashmore IPO in 2006. Tom qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999 and is a Fellow of the ICAEW.....more
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/11/2003, number: 1100885
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/02/2003, number: 04670794
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • 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
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NORWICH SPEAR TRUST on 25/10/2022
  • Asset transfer in from THE ISABELLA BLOW FOUNDATION on 20/11/2023
Main office

Resurgo Trust
3rd Floor
Colet Court
100 Hammersmith Road
LONDON

Objectives

A) AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND FAITH, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF LOCAL, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER OR BY REASON OF HUNGER, DISEASE, SICKNESS OR THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; ANDB) THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND INSTITUTIONS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (THE DIRECTORS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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