Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

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

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 8

THE PHILOSOPHY FOUNDATION

Our aim is to bring philosophy to the wider community and particularly into challenging schools to develop childrenÔÇÖs autonomous learning and higher-order thinking skills, equipping them for life-long learning and creative and critical thinking essential in the 21st Century. We also want to engage the general public in philosophy and its uses for every day living.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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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
31/08/23	£189	£247	£-58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/22	£212	£241	£-29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/21	£220	£217	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/20	£249	£218	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/19	£255	£246	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/18	£249	£272	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/17	£254	£274	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/16	£307	£302	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/15	£275	£239	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/14	£264	£252	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/13	£234	£222	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/12	£105	£98	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/11	£41	£41	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 14 years

www.philosophy-foundation.org

info@philosophy-foundation.org

07842410992

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Other education support

How it operates

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

Where it operates

Isle Of Wight, Leeds City, Manchester City, Portsmouth City, Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award - COVID19 response
£10,000	18/03/2022 36	Philosophy in Schools
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award - COVID19 response
£10,000	09/04/2021 36	Philosophy in Schools
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award - COVID19 response
£10,000	07/05/2020 36	Philosophy in Schools
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to The Philosophy Foundation
£5,000	17/04/2020 36	Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to The Philosophy Foundation, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The Fore - Grant to The Philosophy Foundation
£30,000	08/12/2019 24	The Philosophy Foundation works with children and adults to help them develop critical thinking skills, cognitive ability, communication skills, higher order reasoning skills, problem solving, confidence and the ability to see beyond the content ....more The Philosophy Foundation works with children and adults to help them develop critical thinking skills, cognitive ability, communication skills, higher order reasoning skills, problem solving, confidence and the ability to see beyond the content delivered to them. It provides a variety of critical thinking interventions for schools in disadvantaged areas, prisons and the elderly – all provided by trained volunteer philosophy graduates. Even resource constrained schools value the programme to such a degree that 91% renew contracts, a remarkable rate of success. The Philosophy Foundation will use funding from The Fore to provide the necessary staff capacity to meet demand from additional schools for the programme, while also freeing up the leadership from administrative tasks. This new staff capacity will be funded through the new school contracts within two years, enabling the organisation to successfully scale its work across the UK.
The Fore - Grant to The Philosophy Foundation
£30,000	01/12/2019 24	The Philosophy Foundation works with children and adults to help them develop critical thinking skills, cognitive ability, communication skills, higher order reasoning skills, problem solving, confidence and the ability to see beyond the content ....more The Philosophy Foundation works with children and adults to help them develop critical thinking skills, cognitive ability, communication skills, higher order reasoning skills, problem solving, confidence and the ability to see beyond the content delivered to them. It provides a variety of critical thinking interventions for schools in disadvantaged areas, prisons and the elderly - all provided by trained volunteer philosophy graduates. Even resource constrained schools value the programme to such a degree that 91% renew contracts, a remarkable rate of success. The Philosophy Foundation will use funding from The Fore to provide the necessary staff capacity to meet demand from additional schools for the programme, while also freeing up the leadership from administrative tasks. This new staff capacity will be funded through the new school contracts within two years, enabling the organisation to successfully scale its work across the UK.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	05/07/2018	Main Grants award
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Philosophy Foundation
£2,807	04/08/2017	Our Young Philosophers Programme gives disadvantaged pupils the chance to experience new activities, gain confidence and improve literacy.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Philosophy Foundation
£68,262	13/06/2012	Towards the salary and associated project costs of an evaluation to identify and measure the impact of teaching philosophy to children in 20 English primary schools, aiming to generate practical outcomes.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

ISAAC WILLIAM JONES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director

KATHRYN LOUISE BARRETT FINCH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor And Edi Consultant

KEVIN MCAREVEY Appointed: 2022

MICAH MACKAY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Fundraiser

REBECCA JAYNE ATKINSON (Chair) Appointed: 2024

STEWART EDGINTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Wealth Management

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/02/2011, number: 1140338
Registered at Companies House on 22/10/2010, number: 07416912

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

RO GSM
21-27 Lamb's Conduit Street
London
WC1N 3GS

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY AND TO PROMOTE THE SKILLS WHICH DERIVE FROM PHILOSOPHICAL LEARNING AND THE APPLICATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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