Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 2

No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 8

KNOWLEDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION TRUST

Knowledge Schools Foundation Trust is a charity which supports schools and pupils within the Knowledge Schools Trust, a state-funded, Multi-Academy Trust.The Foundation Trust raises money to pay for the those parts of the schools' facilities, resources and activities not paid for by the DfE, such as the Co-curricular programmes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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
31/08/23	£161	£141	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/08/22	£142	£147	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/08/21	£129	£132	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/20	£130	£121	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/19	£376	£171	£206	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/18	£136	£133	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17	£136	£171	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16	£91	£98	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15	£80	£51	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14	£76	£23	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13	£82	£47	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12	£55	£43	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11	£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 14 years

http://www.knowledgeschoolsfoundationtrust.or

foundationtrust@ks-ft.org

07796443115

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
1 volunteer

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
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to West London Free School
£5,000	29/09/2022	Y8 Theatre Trip and Workshops "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to West London Free School
£3,900	18/09/2021	Y8 Theatre Trip to see "A Christmas Carol"
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	14/09/2017	Extra-Curricular Activities for All

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-77

SUSANNAH MARY FORD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Writer

DEE PURDY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: It Process And Programme Manager

JULIAN PHILIP GRANVILLE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director

KATHRYN ANNE COOPER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Senior Communications And Governance Manager

SHARON ROBINSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeships: GROVE TODDLERS, FULHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY,

TOBY DANIEL MOORSOM YOUNG Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Journalist

THOMAS NEWMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/09/2010, number: 1138194
Registered at Companies House on 22/06/2010, number: 07292254

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
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
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

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

8 Finstock Road
LONDON
W10 6LT

Objectives

THE TRUST'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY PROMOTING THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, CARRYING ON, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST LONDON FREE SCHOOL. (THE ACADEMY)

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM

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