Overall GiG Score: 4 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

SPRING IMPACT 

1. Consultancy: Work with partners to help them achieve their social mission by scaling their impactthrough replication.2. Research: Contribute towards the global knowledge-base on scale up and replication. 3. Advocacy: Promote sector-wide awareness and understanding of the reasons for scaling social impact. Build eco-systems that support an organisation's social replication journey.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 11 years

www.springimpact.org

info@springimpact.org

02072394929

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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
30/06/22£2,833£2,642£191£1,147£761£4732.1230
30/06/21£2,049£2,143£-94£900£570£2821.6220
30/06/20£2,037£1,766£272£61£665£6084.1190
30/06/19£1,814£1,789£25£975£393£3932.6180
30/06/18£1,443£1,614£-171£227£365£3652.7131
30/06/17£1,482£1,303£179£208£541£5415130
30/06/16£1,075£942£133£155£362£3624.6120
30/06/15£481£389£92£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£401£350£51£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 118.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 43.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 35%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 63%
Liabilities/Income: 45%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Camden,

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
Sport England - Scaling Support Programme
£160,000 23/02/2021
43
Funding under Sport England's Volunteering Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Scaling Support Programme. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
Sport England - Scaling Support Programme
£574,900 20/09/2019
40
Funding under Sport England's Volunteering Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Scaling Support Programme. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Scale Accelerator
£1,573,352 21/09/2018
45
This project will provide one to one and cohort based support for organisations looking to scale and replicate their impact. At least six organisations will be supported to co-design a clear ....more
Comic Relief - Mental Health Scale Fund
£122,984 16/05/2018
36
Spring Impact is convening a group of individual philanthropists to create a Scale Fund: bringing new money to the sector focused on supporting charities and social enterprises to scale the impact of ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to International Centre for Social Franchising
£30,000 01/02/2017
12
over one year towards externall consultancy to help ICSF measure the impact of their work supporting charities and social enterprises to scale proven models through replication.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Spring Impact
£67,000 16/11/2016
24
For work to support the scaling of a refugee family reunion project to improve access to high quality advice and representation and of Kids in Need of Defence (KIND) UK’s project to increase ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Scale Accelerator
£80,000 18/07/2016
12
The Scale Accelerator is ICSFs structured programme to support replication, helping partners choose from a spectrum of replication or growth models. Working alongside delivery partners The Social ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The International Centre for Social Franchising
£36,000 16/12/2015
12
Enhance pilot support
Tudor Trust - Grant to International Centre for Social Franchising
£21,350 21/08/2015
12
over one year to enable homelessness charity Groundswell to participate in ICSF's Scale Accelerator programme with the aim of replicating its Homeless Health Peer Advocacy scheme
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to International Centre for Social Franchising
£20,000 17/08/2015
9
Towards the Scale Accelerator - a flagship ‘funders plus’ project in which funders come together to support their most promising grantees and new prospects to reach scale, through a package of ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Replicate to scale proven social ventures
£36,292 16/03/2015
12
A grant to International Centre for Social Franchising Replicate to scale proven social ventures
Tudor Trust - Grant to International Centre for Social Franchising
£20,000 23/12/2014
over one year as continuation funding towards the core costs of replication work with UK-based charities
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/07/2013, number: 1153130
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/06/2012, number: 08093052
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

Working From Southwark
32 Blackfriars Rd
London
SE1 8PB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:1. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES THROUGH:A) THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RESEARCH, ADVICE AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS, CHARITIES AND/OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS; ANDB) THE PROMOTION OF THE REPLICATION, SYSTEMISATION AND INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND REACH OF SUCCESSFUL CHARITABLE PROJECTS.2. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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