Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Excess liquidity: -1
Fundraising costs low: +3

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

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 18

THE RESURGENCE TRUST

The main activities of the Charity are to promote education through publishing Resurgence & Ecologistmagazine, organising events, conferences, seminars and promoting the aims and objectives of the Trust on itswebsites.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end

Established: 17 years

www.resurgence.org

accounts@resurgence.org

01237441293

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	£742	£720	£22	£10	£1,027	£1,019	17	16	0
31/03/22	£825	£861	£-36	£9	£1,005	£995	13.9	18	8
31/03/21	£801	£650	£151	£4	£1,041	£1,030	19	16	0
31/03/20	£713	£695	£18	£37	£890	£861	14.9	10	6
31/03/19	£807	£657	£149	£8	£872	£782	14.3	10	20
31/03/18	£1,058	£696	£362	£45	£723	£507	8.7	11	0
31/03/17	£732	£702	£30	£22	£360	£254	4.3	11	0
31/03/16	£629	£568	£61	£43	£330	£224	4.7	10	0
31/03/15	£615	£599	£16	£52	£269	£234	4.7	8	0
31/03/14	£606	£558	£47	£31	£253	£177	3.8	9	0
31/03/13	£643	£610	£33	£32	£205	£172	3.4	9	0
31/03/12	£543	£551	£-8	£92	£173	£126	2.8	7	0
31/03/11	£481	£488	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£442	£466	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£543	£486	£57	£28	£213	£81	2	3	0
31/03/08	£606	£451	£155	£72	£155	£117	3.1	12	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 45%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 17 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.8

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Cornwall, Devon,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

16 employees

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

Tedworth Charitable Trust	£268,321
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
Staples Trust	£15,000
Woodward Charitable Trust	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£80,000	31/03/2023	Towards core costs
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards the publication of articles and essays for The Ecologist website
£5,000	23/06/2022	Towards the publication of articles and essays for The Ecologist website
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs
£50,000	20/05/2022	Towards its core costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	28/05/2021	Revenue Grant for the Resurgence Trust
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs
£50,000	17/03/2021	Towards core costs
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards its core costs
£50,000	05/05/2020	Towards its core costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Development of strategic plan
£5,000	08/01/2020	Towards the first stages of developing a strategic plan to improve the charity's fundraising and extend its educational reach and impact.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Refurbishment of a cottage at the Resurgence Centre, Hartland
£3,321	09/12/2019	Towards refurbishment of a cottage at the Resurgence Centre in Hartland, Devon.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Resources for the Small School Education programme
£1,000	15/11/2019	Towards resources for the Small School Education programme in rural Devon.
Staples Trust - Towards its core costs.
£7,500	17/10/2019	Towards its core costs.
Staples Trust - Towards its core costs.
£7,500	17/10/2019	Towards its core costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs
£25,000	01/07/2019	Towards core costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Youth coordinator & refurbishment of Small School Building, Hartland
£50,000	17/01/2019	Towards employing a youth coordinator and towards refurbishment of the Small School building in Hartland, Devon.
Staples Trust - Operating costs
£5,000	18/10/2018	Towards its operating costs.
Staples Trust - Operating costs
£5,000	18/10/2018	Towards its operating costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs
£25,000	05/06/2018	Towards core costs.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Running costs and costs of moving offices
£50,000	20/07/2017	Towards running costs and the costs of moving offices. The grant is to be split equally between both (half).
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs and film
£35,000	12/06/2015	Towards core costs and a new edition of a film about the charity's work.
Staples Trust - Resurgence website
£15,000	18/03/2015	Towards the cost of the Resurgence website.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Fundraiser and core costs
£35,000	07/10/2014	Towards employing a fundraiser and towards core costs.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-80

CHRISTABEL REED Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Yoga Therapist

HERBERT GIRARDET Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Author, Other trusteeship: ARTISTS' PROJECT EARTH,

JOSEPHINE YAA AMANKWAH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Contracts Manager

RICHARD BAKER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Management Consultant

RUBY PENELOPE REED Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Yoga Therapist

SANDY BROWN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Artist

STEPHEN BRENNINKMEIJER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director

TIMOTHY JAMES SAINSBURY (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeships: THE HEADLEY TRUST, THE KAY KENDALL LEUKAEMIA FUND, THE TEDWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST, STAPLES TRUST, THE VOICES FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2007, number: 1120414
Registered at Companies House on 18/05/2006, number: 05821436

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

16 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE SMALL SCHOOL (HARTLAND) on 20/06/2019

Main office

The Resurgence Centre
Fore Street
Hartland
BIDEFORD
EX39 6AB

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:1.1 THE ENVIRONMENT;1.2 THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;1.3 ARTS;1.4 CULTURE;1.5 SPIRITUALITY;1.6 HUMAN VALUES;1.7 ANY OTHER SUBJECTS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES; OR2 FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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