Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

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 a grant maker recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

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
31/03/24£61,446£44,333£17,113£12,043£23,635£19,5125.35410
31/03/23£40,816£38,284£2,532£10,795£7,153£4,0141.34540
31/03/22£30,605£28,056£2,549£5,837£4,103£-280-0.13880
31/03/21£23,700£22,100£1,600£800£1,600£-2,800-1.52875
31/03/20?£19,200£19,700£-500£800£0£-3,900-2.43026
31/03/18*£15,000£15,700£-700£700£3,200£7000.52230
31/03/17*£14,900£12,700£2,200£2,900£3,800£1000.11530
31/03/16£9,100£9,500£-400£2,200£1,500£1000.11320
31/03/15*£8,405£7,756£648£3,186£1,829£750.11700
31/03/14£6,093£6,081£12£2,739£1,249£6461.31010
31/03/13*£5,742£5,720£22£3,066£1,328£1,3282.8600
31/03/12*£5,884£5,030£853£2,896£1,306£1,2913.1640
31/03/11*£3,832£3,688£144£2,104£452£4521.5420
31/03/10£2,754£2,817£-64£1,409£309£2461310
31/03/09£2,483£2,239£244£761£372£3722210

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 23.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 27.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 28%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 51%
Liabilities/Income: 39%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 17 years
(20 years as a company)

www.cdp.net

info@cdp.net

020 3818 3900

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
  • Social advocacy & research
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 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.

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 (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-74
  • AMY FIONA METCALFE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant
  • 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: Company Director
  • MICHAEL JOHN HUGMAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Sustainable Finance
  • MUKUNDAN RAMAKRISHNAN Appointed: 2017, 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
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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