Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

PARRHESIA INC

Parrhesia Inc is a charitable research body which conducts research into whistleblower protection issues to inform best practice and policy. We work collaboratively, bringing all those with a stake in whistleblowing protection together to find solutions to improve outcomes for whistleblowers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
31/03/23£58£62£-4n/a
31/03/22£49£35£14n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

parrhesia.org.uk

info@parrhesia.org.uk

07720073916

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund - Rebuilding Lives: Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Trauma
£10,000 11/08/2023
The project will use the funding to provide support to vulnerable and hard to reach trauma and abuse survivors through one-to-one support and peer support groups. It will also carry out awareness raising activities and expand the reach of its ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Parrhesia Inc
£50,000 18/03/2023
Core costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

  • ARPITA DUTT Appointed: 2021
  • MAJOR GENERAL DAVID MCDOWALL CBE (Chair) Appointed: 2021
  • MARTIN DEREK BRIGHT Appointed: 2021
  • PROF DAVID LEWIS Appointed: 2021
  • REV NICHOLAS MERCER Appointed: 2021
  • SARA ROWBOTHAM MBE Appointed: 2021
  • STUART COTTON Appointed: 2021
  • SUSAN ALLISON Appointed: 2023
  • TRACY AMANDA BOYLIN Appointed: 2021
  • JOHN BLENKINSOPP Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/02/2021, number: 1193561
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
  • 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
  • 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
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

Park House
East End
Sheriff Hutton
YORK
YO60 6SX

Objectives

(1) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY RESEARCH INTO THE PRACTICE OF WHISTLEBLOWING AND PROTECTION OF WHISTLEBLOWERS AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC THEREIN BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH INTO (AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF) OF THE PRACTICE OF WHISTLEBLOWING AND PROTECTION OF WHISTLEBLOWERS;(B) THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF JOURNALS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PAMPHLETS AND OTHER LITERARY WORKS TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION AND PROMOTE DISCUSSION ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH THE OBJECTS;(C) THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE PRACTICE OF WHISTLEBLOWING AND PROTECTION OF WHISTLEBLOWERS; AND(D) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND INFORM PUBLIC DEBATE IN THOSE FIELDS WHETHER IN THE UK OR ABROAD AND IN PARTICULAR BY MAKING AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, THROUGH A PROCESS OF OBJECTIVE, IMPARTIAL RESEARCH AND RIGOROUS FACTUAL ANALYSIS, FULL, ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFORMATION TO ASSIST SUCH PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND TO INFORM AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC DEBATE.2) TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS, AND THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS) OF WHISTLEBLOWERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(B) CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS;(C) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED LEGISLATION RELATING TO OR IMPACTING WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS;(D) RAISING AWARENESS OF WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(E) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(F) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;(G) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF WHISTLEBLOWERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS.(3) NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CLO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CLO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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