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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 9
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE TRUST FOR THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Commissions investigations , research and reports on current issues of major economic and social relevance and current issues of legitimate public concern so as to promote ethical standards of conduct.
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Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/12/23£165£160£4n/a
31/12/22£172£164£8n/a
31/12/21£165£169£-4n/a
31/12/20£191£181£10n/a
31/12/19£185£188£-3n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years
(15 years as a company)

02073042039

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
David & Elaine Potter Foundation£460,000
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£182,400
Pears Foundation£115,000
John Ellerman Foundation£105,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bureau of Investigative Journalism
£120,000 20/11/2023
24
Towards Open Justice project
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£110,000 09/05/2023
11
Core funding
Pears Foundation - Core Funding
£10,000 20/02/2023
18
Core Funding
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bureau of Investigative Journalism
£12,400 19/10/2022
Towards cost of living crisis
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£100,000 28/04/2022
Core funding
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bureau Investigative Journalism
£50,000 11/11/2021
Towards open justice pilot project
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
£105,000 18/10/2021
Core Funding
John Ellerman Foundation - Salaries and other costs to support community engagement, impact and resources around collaborative public interest reporting.
£105,000 29/07/2021
36
Salaries and other costs to support community engagement, impact and resources around collaborative public interest reporting.
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£100,000 23/03/2021
Core support of the charitable aspects of the work of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Bureau Local
£150,000 25/03/2020
11
Support for the charitable aspects of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Bureau Local project. Bureau Local is an innovative journalism and technology project working with local reporters to dig into datasets and tell the stories that ....more
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Bureau Local
£150,000 13/02/2019
10
Support for the charitable aspects of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Bureau Local project. Bureau Local is an innovative journalism and technology project working with local reporters to dig into datasets and tell the stories that ....more
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - General donation
£5,000 01/11/2018
1
General donation
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-78
  • DR CONOR MCCARTHY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Lawyer
  • GEOFFREY ROBERTSON KC Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Barrister
  • JODIE MARIANNE GINSBERG Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Ceo
  • SIR DAVID BELL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Non - Executive Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/07/2018, number: 1179275
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/11/2009, number: 07068913
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

ZETLAND HOUSE
5-25 SCRUTTON STREET
LONDON
EC2A 4HJ

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE SUCH OF THE WORK OF THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER 07084305) AS IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES; ANDB) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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