Overall GiG Score: -3 ?
Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -5
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified

ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH 

The promotion of good communication in the English language through public speaking and debate; running educational programmes; initiating and administering scholarships; youth and academic exchanges. The charity focuses on oracy development in schools, promoting social equality and international understanding and facilitates and assists in the establishment of independent ESUs worldwide.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £50,057,996 available, equivalent to 294 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 47 years
(54 years as a company)

www.esu.org

esu@esu.org

02075291550

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£2,535£2,046£489£560£51,145£50,058293.61895
31/03/22£2,297£1,391£906£534£42,833£41,571358.61095
31/03/21£2,149£2,348£-199£5£40,951£39,651202.6100
31/03/20£3,059£3,059£0£722£40,847£39,797156.11728
31/03/19£3,516£4,354£-838£464£40,616£39,294108.332240
31/03/18£3,794£3,974£-180£267£41,733£40,091121.1510
31/03/17£3,580£3,641£-61£290£37,996£36,305119.7480
31/03/16*£3,874£3,834£40£328£37,507£36,046112.8470
31/03/15£3,692£3,531£160£422£44,128£42,601144.8260
31/03/14*£3,576£3,135£441£373£39,021£37,630144240
31/03/13£3,761£2,748£1,013£366£29,785£28,516124.5180
31/03/12£2,880£3,056£-176£325£28,549£27,464107.9270
31/03/11£2,984£3,262£-278£364£28,841£27,673101.8290
31/03/10?£2,042£2,057£-15£247£28,968£27,876162.6290
30/04/09£2,129£2,098£31£301£21,183£20,309116.2230
30/04/08£2,545£1,980£566£370£21,532£20,513124.3270
30/04/07*£2,096£1,718£378£312£20,987£19,930139.2280
30/04/06£1,568£1,692£-124£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/05£1,473£1,531£-58£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/04£1,442£1,517£-75£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 134%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 27.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 293.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 4.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 95 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, ....more

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - English Speaking Union
£960 29/09/2020
To hold two oracy workshops, one aimed at teachers and students, and one for students only (Years 7-11)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/13 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1977, number: 273136
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: RC000177
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 0 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

DARTMOUTH HOUSE
37 CHARLES STREET
LONDON
W1J 5ED

Objectives

TO PROMOTE WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MUTUAL EDUCATION OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) RESPECTING THEIR HERITAGE, TRADITIONS AND ASPIRATIONS, THE EVENTS AND ISSUES OF THE DAY AFFECTING THEM, THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF ENGLISH AS A SHARED LANGUAGE AND MEANS OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT THE FOREGOING AIMS AND OBJECTS SHALL AT ALL TIMES BE PURSUED IN A NON-POLITICAL AND NON-SECTARIAN MANNER.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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