Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 13

STEPHEN SPENDER TRUST

The Stephen Spender Trust promotes literary translation and works to widen knowledge of 20th century literature with particular focus on Stephen Spender and his circle of writers.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/08/23?		£160	£173	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£106	£145	£-40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£94	£85	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£104	£75	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£48	£47	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£40	£39	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/17		£33	£30	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/16		£29	£37	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/15		£63	£61	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/14		£66	£83	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/13		£63	£70	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/12		£89	£52	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/11		£58	£45	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/10		£30	£22	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/09		£4	£32	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/08		£31	£18	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/07	*	£30	£17	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/06		£24	£19	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
04/04/05		£69	£47	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

www.stephen-spender.org

info@stephen-spender.org

07967033514

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

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

John Lyon's Charity	£29,750
Rothschild Foundation	£27,500
The Foyle Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£2,500	01/03/2023	Cost of living supplementary grant
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£25,000	14/10/2022	Stephen Spender Trust will run creative translation workshops for Ukrainian refugees and their new communities in Bucks, providing a safe and positive space for participants to share their language ....more Stephen Spender Trust will run creative translation workshops for Ukrainian refugees and their new communities in Bucks, providing a safe and positive space for participants to share their language and culture.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	11/02/2021	towards expanding your digital engagement including a new website and resources for a national training programme providing teachers with the tools and inspiration for creative translation activities ....more towards expanding your digital engagement including a new website and resources for a national training programme providing teachers with the tools and inspiration for creative translation activities (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£4,750	02/12/2020 12	A Multilingual Festival of Children's Literature
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£25,000	11/03/2020 12	A Multilingual Festival of Children's Literature
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£25,000	06/11/2012	Towards the expansion of Translation Nation, a practical language and translation project for parents and their children.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stephen Spender Trust
£17,500	05/05/2010 12	Towards Project costs Towards project costs for practical language and translation workshops.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-79

ALASTAIR NIVEN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Honorary Fellow, Harris Manchester College

BEN BRANSFIELD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Teacher

ELISABETH ATTWOOD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor

ISABEL LUCENA Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant

JONATHAN PAUL CREE HEAWOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Ceo

SPENCER MARK SIMMONS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: LAWYERS AGAINST POVERTY,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2003, number: 1101304
Registered at Companies House on 08/09/2003, number: 04891164

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR07: 39 days late,

Main office

41 Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JF

Objectives

1. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY LITERATURE (INCLUDING POETRY), ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AND AFTER THE 20TH CENTURY, WITH SPECIAL BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF STEPHEN SPENDER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES;2. TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY LITERATURE AS AFORESAID, AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;3. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE;

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

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