Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

GETTING ON BOARD 

Promote effectiveness of charities and voluntary sector generally, schools and public bodies, by improving their governance through - raising awareness of rule of trustees on governing bodies and - encouragement of individuals to volunteer on govering bodies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£232£248£-16n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/22£221£204£17n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/03/21£137£110£28n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/20£70£57£13n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£32£49£-16n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/18£50£31£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£17£22£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£28£56£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£77£72£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£34£31£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£44£25£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£32£27£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£14£15£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£10£19£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£5£16£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£40£7£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£8£5£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.gettingonboard.org

info@gettingonboard.org

02074276058

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 150 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
Co-Op Foundation - Getting on Board Core Costs
£52,000 23/02/2023
Core cost support for training and campaigns to improve trustee diversity in the UK.
Co-Op Foundation - Action for Trustee Racial Diversity - Years 2 & 3
£50,000 18/11/2021
Grant awarded to Getting on Board for Action for Trustee Racial Diversity's work in increasing racial diversity on charity trustee boards, specifically to increase the number of Black and Asian ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Action for Trustee Racial Diversity Campaign
£20,500 19/11/2020
This funding will support the core costs of the campaign, Action for Trustee Racial Diversity (ATRD)
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/11/2019
towards core development costs in 2020/21 to allow this organisation (which supports local charities to find and recruit trustees) to expand its reach
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Getting on Board
£75,000 24/08/2011
Towards core costs to increase the number of skilled professionals becoming charity trustees.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-62
  • TRACY WOODS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Marketing Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/11/2005, number: 1112013
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/07/2004, number: 05188506
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR08: 46 days late, AR07: 20 days late,
Main office

71-75 SHELTON STREET
LONDON
WC2H 9JQ

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR GENERALLY, SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC BODIES, BY IMPROVING THEIR GOVERNANCE THROUGH:-A) RAISING AWARENESS OF THE ROLE OF TRUSTEES ON GOVERNING BODIES; ANDB) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS TO VOLUNTEER ON GOVERNING BODIES.2. TO PROMOTE ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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