Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 5
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +5

WONDER FOUNDATION 

1: Empowering Women through supporting/creating healthcare & education initiatives in the UK and overseas so that they can exit poverty2: Instigating Social Change through engaging with beneficiaries, experts, policymakers, donors and contributors3: Sharing Best Practice and learning among our partners to improve operational & management efficiencies, maximizing resource use & impact.
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
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 12 years

www.wonderfoundation.org.uk

olivia@wonderfoundation.org.uk

07956146955

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£1,829£1,692£137£49£908£5553.9880
31/03/22£954£896£58£3£763£5607.5760
31/03/21£999£577£422£0£705£2906443
31/03/20£439£366£73n/an/an/an/an/a55
31/03/19£740£814£-74£17£210£6913186
31/03/18£798£558£240£17£284£491.140
31/03/17£174£181£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£131£159£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£192£198£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£143£58£85£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 61%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 0
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
  • 80 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering young people with employability skills
£10,000 19/05/2023
The funding will be used to run a week of interactive training workshops for young people and volunteering opportunities throughout the year for young women who have experience of migration. The ....more
The Blagrave Trust - School attendance for immigrant young women
£18,000 31/05/2022
To map any existing provision to support migrant girls to enter and stay in education
National Lottery Community Fund - Training and support of diaspora young people to develop employability skills
£10,000 28/01/2022
The project will run a series of interactive workshops and volunteering opportunities for migrant young women. This will enable them to gain new employability skills and access to activities as well ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skill Up
£10,000 14/06/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver employment workshops for young women from Black, African and Minority Ethnic communities. The project aims to develop skills and improve confidence and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Training and support of diaspora young people to develop employability
£10,000 31/01/2018
12
This project will offer young women from black and ethnic minority backgrounds work placements. The placements will include training and volunteering opportunities, allowing them to develop a variety ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Engaging safeguarding that works
£10,000 24/08/2016
12
The group will use the funding to work with different communities locally and produce information surrounding the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM). This will increase confidence of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Entrepreneurial Tech Skills development
£10,000 29/04/2015
12
The group will use the funding to train 30 young women from VCS organisations in sales, photography and digital technology skills. This will provide beneficiaries with a range of transferable skills ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-45
  • KIRTANA RAJ Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Project Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/08/2012, number: 1148679
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/01/2012, number: 07921757
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

C/O Baytree Centre
300-302 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6AE

Objectives

4.1 The charity's objects (Objects) are specifically restricted to the following:4.1.1 The advancement of education amongst, but not exclusively, women and girls by developing or improving the necessary knowledge or skills for living a fulfilled, safe, healthy or self-sufficient life;4.1.2 The prevention or relief of poverty amongst, but not exclusively, women and girls;4.1.3 The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage in particular, but not exclusively, women and girls affected by exploitation, domestic abuse and forced marriages;4.1.4 Promotion of efficiency and effectiveness in the charitable activities of not-for­profit organisations, voluntary groups and charities working for the benefit of the public.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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