Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 5

THE CO-OPERATIVE COLLEGE

The Co-operative College is an educational charity dedicated to the promotion of co-operative values, ideas and principles within co-operatives, communities and society.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 9 years

www.co-op.ac.uk

hello@co-op.ac.uk

07529225118

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/07/22	£303	£676	£-373	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/21	£463	£1,204	£-741	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/20	£640	£1,311	£-671	£40	£2,861	£282	2.6	21
31/07/19	£1,003	£1,447	£-444	£71	£3,296	£282	2.3	24
31/07/18	£978	£1,375	£-397	£64	£3,445	£231	2	25
31/07/17	£1,004	£1,648	£-644	£55	£3,622	£240	1.7	25
31/07/16?	£5,492	£1,716	£3,777	£15	£4,009	£211	1.5	24
30/04/15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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
Co-Op Foundation - YCA Continuation Project
£143,160	28/04/2022	#iwill Fund - National Partner - The Co-operative College will continue to diversify their youth and community work by delivering the Youth Co-operative Action project in Greater Manchester, Plymouth ....more #iwill Fund - National Partner - The Co-operative College will continue to diversify their youth and community work by delivering the Youth Co-operative Action project in Greater Manchester, Plymouth London
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Co-operative Action
£170,000	11/04/2019	Supporting young people in Manchester, Hartlepool and Plymouth to learn about co-operative values in their community and run their own social action projects to address loneliness.
Power to Change - Co-operatives UK
£36,350	15/03/2019	Grant to Co-operatives UK
Power to Change - Co-operatives UK
£40,000	11/12/2018 11	Grant to Co-operatives UK
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Co-operative Action
£25,000	16/11/2017	Supporting young care leavers in Greater Manchester to set up their own Co-ops which aim to understand and tackle youth loneliness.
Power to Change - Co-operatives UK
£65,000	01/10/2016 17	Grant to Co-operatives UK

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BARBARA ANN RAINFORD Appointed: 2023

CHRISTOPHER ROBERT JARDINE Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE CO-OPERATIVE HERITAGE TRUST,

DANIEL JOHN MARK DOUGLAS Appointed: 2023

GREGORY JOHN ROBERTS PHD Appointed: 2022

JON NOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2017

JAMES GRANT WOLSTENCROFT Appointed: 2023

JENNIFER RUSSELL DE VILLIERS Appointed: 2022

ROSE HARVEY Appointed: 2022

SIMON THOMSON Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/11/2014, number: 1159105

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

8 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Co-operative College
Holyoake House
Hanover Street
MANCHESTER
M60 OAS

Objectives

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF THE COLLEGE FOR THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT.

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