Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 15
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

GLITCH 

Glitch works to prevent online abuse through the provision of training, workshops and other resources.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial Data ?

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 Volun-
teers
31/03/23£560£520£40£4£210£2024.790
31/03/22£388£341£47n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/21£264£123£141n/an/an/an/an/a3
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 45%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2
Asset Split ?
Established: 4 years

www.glitchcharity.co.uk

info@glitchcharity.co.uk

02032874797

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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Advice organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 9 employees

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
Indigo Trust£248,250
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£83,280
DCMS£70,788
JRSST-CT£35,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,998
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted 3 year grant
£248,250 02/01/2024
Unrestricted 3 year grant to Glitch
JRSST-CT - Misogynoir in Elections
£35,000 05/10/2023
to deliver their ‘Misogynoir in Elections’ campaign, which seeks to make tech accountability a doorstop issue for politicians
DCMS - Media Literacy Programme Fund (Glitch)
£28,144 01/12/2022
Expanding their existing offering to support more vulnerble and marginalised women to be safe online
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Glitch
£3,280 19/10/2022
Towards cost of living crisis
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Glitch
£80,000 28/07/2022
Towards core funding
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£19,444 27/11/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 02/09/2020
12
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£23,200 23/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Self Care and Self Defence
£9,998 03/10/2019
12
Digital Self Care and Self Defence
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2020, number: 1187714
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • 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
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

63-66 HATTON GARDEN
FIFTH FLOOR SUITE 23
LONDON
EC1N 8LE

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF ONLINE ABUSE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, WORKSHOPS AND OTHER RESOURCES. THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH RAISING AWARENESS, PROVIDING INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AND MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO PROVIDERS ON THE SCOPE OF ONLINE ABUSE AND ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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