Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 14

ACUMEN ACADEMY UK

Acumen Academy UK develops and delivers leadership programmes, including a Fellows Programme and a range of online courses, to equip social leaders with the skills, character and community needed to accelerate and sustain their impact.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
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

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/23	£267	£293	£-26	n/a
31/12/22	£328	£295	£33	n/a
31/12/21	£271	£283	£-13	n/a
31/12/20	£376	£160	£216	n/a

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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 31%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000

Established: 5 years

https://fellowship.acumenacademy.org/uk

blane@acumenacademy.org

07566792712

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Other education support

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Segelman Trust - Grant to UK Acumen Academy
£120,000	10/05/2022	To support the core costs of the UK fellowship programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000	20/03/2020	Acumen UK Fellows Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Piloting the Acumen Fellowship Programme in the UK
£150,000	25/10/2019 39	Piloting the Acumen Fellowship Programme in the UK
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Acumen Academy UK
£120,000	17/09/2019 36	To support the core costs of Acumen Academy UK in its start-up phase

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees:

DAVID JEREMY GOLD Appointed: 2023

DURO OYE Appointed: 2023

JOHN BERTRAM STARES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant

KATHERINE ELIZABETH PARKER Appointed: 2024

KATHRYN JAYNE OSBORN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo Of A Charity

REBECCA ANN EASTMOND (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee

SARAH FAROOQ Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/09/2019, number: 1185457

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

ACUMEN ACADEMY UK
SOMERSET HOUSE
STRAND
LONDON
WC2R 1LA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF INDIVIDUALS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY AND DELIVER PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMMUNITIES AND ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE’ MEANS CHANGES IN HUMAN INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WHICH TRANSFORM CULTURAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO PROMOTE EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND A WORLD BASED ON DIGNITY, WHERE EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY.

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