Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED

DataKind UK believes data can have a transformative effect on how charities make decisions and create social change. It can be difficult for charities to fund analytic posts. Meanwhile, many data scientists want to help make the world a better place. We provide data scientists with a way to volunteer their skills on charity projects and show charities the power of their data.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£370£428£-58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£379£332£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£391£277£114n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£248£222£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£153£167£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£150£121£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£126£116£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£82£86£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£57£46£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.datakind.org.uk

contact@datakind.org.uk

07974271311

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
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
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£360,000 25/04/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to transform the use of data and data science in the social sector, through direct support, community building and effective communications
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£8,050 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DATAKIND (UK) LIMITED
£2,754 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Datakind UK
£60,000 21/09/2021
24
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the Data Collective: developing a community of data experts in the social sector
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DataKind UK
£295,000 05/11/2019
36
Towards core costs to support Datakind to encourage the intelligent use of data within the UK charities in order to increase impact across the sector.
The Fore - Grant to Datakind UK
£30,000 19/07/2016
24
Grant funded a Community Manager post for two years, with the aim of this post becoming self-funded.
Nesta - AR00217
£10,000 27/01/2016
9
Public and Social Innovation: General Code programme grant to DataKind Grant Ref AR00217
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DataKind UK
£96,484 27/01/2016
36
Towards core costs to support charitable organisations to make the most of data to further their mission.
Nesta - AR00150
£25,000 11/03/2014
Datakind programme grant to DataKind Grant Ref AR00150
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-55
  • BETHIA MCNEIL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • ED ANDERTON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director
  • KATHERINE VANG Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Data Scientist
  • LAUREN WOODMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
  • LINDSEY MACDONALD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Managing Director
  • TARIQ KHOKHAR (Chair) Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/10/2013, number: 1154213
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/2013, number: 08462148
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR16: 3 days late,
Main office

c/o Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
6th Floor
210 Pentonville Road
London

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITABLE AND NON CHARITABLE BODIES BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO AND USE OF DATA AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES TO ASSIST THEM IN FURTHERING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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