Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Reasonable growth: +1
Deficit latest year: -2

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

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST

Charity Digital Trust empowers Charities to Accelerate their Mission through Technology working in partnership with commercial and voluntary organisations to support and guide charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK using technology to enhance the way they work and collaborate.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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
31/03/23	£2,200	£2,535	£-334	£0	£610	£514	2.4	18	0
31/03/22	£2,261	£2,235	£25	£0	£944	£864	4.6	17	0
31/03/21	£2,046	£1,882	£164	£0	£919	£914	5.8	15	0
31/03/20	£2,057	£1,868	£188	£0	£755	£751	4.8	12	0
31/03/19	£1,616	£1,578	£38	£0	£567	£562	4.3	12	9
31/03/18	£1,986	£1,691	£295	£0	£529	£529	3.8	13	0
31/03/17	£1,680	£1,490	£191	£0	£234	£216	1.7	12	0
31/03/16	£2,101	£1,826	£275	£0	£43	£43	0.3	12	0
31/03/15	£1,978	£2,362	£-384	£715	£-231	£-231	-1.2	13	0
31/03/14	£2,243	£2,245	£-2	£387	£153	£153	0.8	16	0
31/03/13	£2,024	£2,140	£-116	£457	£155	£155	0.9	13	0
31/03/12	£1,822	£1,814	£8	£585	£271	£271	1.8	13	0
31/03/11	£1,771	£1,829	£-58	£798	£263	£263	1.7	13	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 19%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 51%
Liabilities/Income: 29%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.5

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Balance Sheet History

Established: 15 years

charitydigital.org.uk

office@CHARITYDIGITAL.ORG.UK

0207 324 3380

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
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
WCIT Charity - Grant to Charity Digital Trust
£5,000	10/12/2023	Funding towards updating the Charity Digital Code of Practice, designed to improve digital strategy, programmes and projects within charities.
DCMS - Digital 2 - Heritage Digital
£249,800	12/03/2021	Our project will build the digital skills, resilience and reach of heritage organisations. Our ambition is to grow thenumber of smaller heritage organisations in the UK that have the skills required to make use of digital. We want to support ....more Our project will build the digital skills, resilience and reach of heritage organisations. Our ambition is to grow thenumber of smaller heritage organisations in the UK that have the skills required to make use of digital. We want to support organisations to embed digital within their strategy thereby strengthening their approach to innovation, enterprise and business planning
DCMS - Digital Leadership Fund - Tech Trust
£44,207	01/01/2019	Plan to expand their Charity Digital Tech Conference. Money from the fund will subsidise travel costs, enable recording and broadcast of content, and create a live stream to broaden accessibility online.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-56

CLAIRE TAVERNIER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant

CORRINE ANN GARBETT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Director

EMILY MACKENZIE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Marketing Director

JONATHAN TAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ngo Executive

RICHARD TAYLOR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Principal Program Manager

ROB GEORGE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Secretary

STEVEN DUNNE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director

ZOE AMAR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/12/2009, number: 1133179
Registered at Companies House on 11/05/2009, number: 06902258

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
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
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

Office 4.3
356 Holloway Road
N7 6PA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD SUCH PURPOSES ASARE RECOGNISED AS BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW IN ENGLANDAND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT TO SUPPORT ORESTABLISH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE WORLD

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