Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -5

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 1

CDP WORLDWIDE

CDP works with market forces to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them. CDP now holds the largest collection globally of primary climate change, water and forest-risk information and puts these insights at the heart of strategic business, investment and policy decisions.

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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

Established: 16 years
(20 years as a company)

www.cdp.net

info@cdp.net

020 3818 3900

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£40,816	£38,284	£2,532	£10,795	£7,153	£4,014	1.3	454	0
31/03/22		£30,605	£28,056	£2,549	£5,837	£4,103	£-280	-0.1	388	0
31/03/21		£23,700	£22,100	£1,600	£800	£1,600	£-2,800	-1.5	287	5
31/03/20		£19,200	£19,700	£-500	£800	£0	£-3,900	-2.4	302	6
31/03/19		£15,900	£16,500	£-600	£0	£2,600	£-700	-0.5	247	5
31/03/18	*	£15,000	£15,700	£-700	£700	£3,200	£700	0.5	223	0
31/03/17	*	£14,900	£12,700	£2,200	£2,900	£3,800	£100	0.1	153	0
31/03/16		£9,100	£9,500	£-400	£2,200	£1,500	£100	0.1	132	0
31/03/15	*	£8,405	£7,756	£648	£3,186	£1,829	£75	0.1	170	0
31/03/14		£6,093	£6,081	£12	£2,739	£1,249	£646	1.3	101	0
31/03/13	*	£5,742	£5,720	£22	£3,066	£1,328	£1,328	2.8	60	0
31/03/12	*	£5,884	£5,030	£853	£2,896	£1,306	£1,291	3.1	64	0
31/03/11	*	£3,832	£3,688	£144	£2,104	£452	£452	1.5	42	0
31/03/10		£2,754	£2,817	£-64	£1,409	£309	£246	1	31	0
31/03/09		£2,483	£2,239	£244	£761	£372	£372	2	21	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 49%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 28.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 23%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 69%
Liabilities/Income: 39%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 56%
Reserves/Spending: 1.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Throughout London, United States,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

454 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to CDP Worldwide
£40,000	13/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to CDP Worldwide
£400,000	10/02/2022 36	Towards core costs working on data driven action on biodiversity and climate with UK local authorities.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to CDP Worldwide
£60,000	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to CDP Worldwide
£28,000	09/12/2019 10	Towards upskilling the environment sector in engaging the finance sector.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to CDP Worldwide
£491,180	08/02/2018 36	Towards salary and additional core costs of engagement officer and disclosure support officer to support UK cities to measure and manage their climate impacts.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-73

AMY FIONA METCALFE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant

CHRISTINE LOH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Executive

DAVID JONATHAN WOLFSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Lawyer

DAVID LUBIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Founder

JEREMY PHILIP SZOKE BURKE Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director

KATHERINE LUCY GARRETT-COX Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeship: CLEAN AIR FUND,

MICHAEL JOHN HUGMAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Sustainable Finance

MUKUNDAN RAMAKRISHNAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Executive

STEPHEN TSO-MIN CHOW Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/01/2008, number: 1122330
Registered at Companies House on 13/01/2004, number: 05013650

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 0 days late, AR11: 1 days late,

Main office

4th Floor
60 Great Tower Street
London
EC3R 5AZ

Objectives

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 THE CONDUCTING OF RESEARCH AND MAKING THE USEFUL RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC; AND3.2 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ENGLISH LAW.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: WORLDWIDE.

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