Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 11

PARALLEL HISTORIES

Parallel Histories is a UK educational charity, founded in 2017, to improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people and promote social cohesion through innovation in humanities teaching. We empower teachers to teach controversial history by providing training, educational resources, and debating for young people. Through these three main activities, we work with over 1110 secondary schools.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest 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
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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

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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		£120	£131	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/22		£132	£94	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	300
31/03/21		£70	£52	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/20		£55	£30	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/03/19		£10	£10	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/18	*	£10	£8	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

https://www.parallelhistories.org.uk

michael@parallelhistories.org.uk

+447810253513

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Academic support

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
100 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Funding Network	£14,830
John Lyon's Charity	£5,000
The EQ Foundation	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to Parallel Histories
£5,000	29/09/2022	Developing confidence, speaking and critical evaluation skills
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Parallel Histories
£1,000	15/12/2020	Via the Funding Network
The Funding Network - Parallel Histories online debating for disadvantaged students
£14,830	01/12/2020	Connecting school communities in inner London, the South and North West of England through an online history debating programme for disadvantaged students.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CLARE O'SULLIVAN Appointed: 2020

HARRY EDMONDSON Appointed: 2023

PATRICK TAYLOR Appointed: 2017

PAUL FRANEK Appointed: 2023

SANA TARIQ Appointed: 2023

TIM RAMSEY (Chair) Appointed: 2023

WILLIAM ALBION Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/09/2017, number: 1174481

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR18: 36 days late,

Main office

8/3 Annandale Street
EDINBURGH
EH7 4AN

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY TOPICS* BY RESEARCHING AND CREATING FREE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, INCLUDINGINTERACTIVE VIDEOS AND DISTRIBUTING TO TEACHERS.* FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY TOPICS ARE TOPICS WHICH ARE DISPUTED BY HISTORIANS, HAVE PARTISAN INTERPRETATIONS AND MAY CAUSE AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE FROM LEARNERS.

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