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TWIN

Established: 39 years

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/03/18		£10,958	£12,452	£-1,493	£0	£2,098	£628	0.6	22
31/03/17		£3,002	£2,814	£188	£0	£3,097	£782	3.3	16
31/03/16	*	£1,921	£1,847	£74	£0	£1,685	£1,685	10.9	15
31/03/15		£1,423	£1,525	£-102	£17	£718	£718	5.7	9
31/03/14		£1,327	£1,556	£-229	£16	£822	£822	6.3	9
31/03/13		£1,518	£1,517	£1	£7	£1,051	£1,041	8.2	19
31/03/12		£19,768	£19,814	£-47	£18,393	£1,687	£1,679	1	19
31/03/11		£11,169	£10,608	£560	£9,462	£1,642	£1,616	1.8	16
31/03/10		£9,466	£9,445	£21	£8,184	£1,059	£1,007	1.3	18
31/03/09		£9,403	£9,559	£-156	£8,052	£1,259	£1,211	1.5	19
31/03/08		£8,122	£7,587	£534	£5,735	£1,571	£1,448	2.3	17
31/03/07		£1,010	£1,023	£-13	£22	£979	£877	10.3	8
31/03/06	*	£978	£1,108	£-130	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05	*	£1,381	£1,060	£321	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£1,143	£1,033	£110	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 79%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 30%
Reserves/Spending: 0.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Bolivia, Burundi, Congo (Democratic Republic), Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Nicaragua, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

22 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Work and Pensions - TWIN
£543,387	01/04/2021	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
Comic Relief - Strategic Grant
£269,000	25/07/2018 8	Strategic support to TWIN, TWIN Trading & partner organisations to enable them to focus on updating their proposition across charitable and trading activities in line with their current into ....more Strategic support to TWIN, TWIN Trading & partner organisations to enable them to focus on updating their proposition across charitable and trading activities in line with their current into future strategy.
Comic Relief - Gender and generational empowerment with Vuasa Cooperative Union, Tanzania
£1,295,244	25/11/2015 60	Coffee farmers south of famous Kilimanjaro live in hard-to-reach villages and seem to have missed out on many coffee initiatives. This project will help a determined but fragile Co-op Union onto the ....more Coffee farmers south of famous Kilimanjaro live in hard-to-reach villages and seem to have missed out on many coffee initiatives. This project will help a determined but fragile Co-op Union onto the global specialty coffee map. With assistance, small farmers' productivity and coffee quality will rise, the co-op will access credit, gain Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance certifications, and sell four times more premium quality and Fairtrade coffee. Building in GALS (Gender Action Learning System) methods to coffee supply chain challenges, women will be taking a leading role in learning good agriculture practices, business and leadership skills and reviving the co-op from 5,000 to 16,000 active members, with a rising female presence up 10% to 35%.
Comic Relief - Securing forest community livelihoods through sustainable smallholder cocoa development
£726,238	27/05/2015 36	While world cocoa prices are rising cocoa farmers living on the edge of the Gola rainforest in Sierra Leone are leaving their farms and adopting farming practices which drive deforestation to feed ....more While world cocoa prices are rising cocoa farmers living on the edge of the Gola rainforest in Sierra Leone are leaving their farms and adopting farming practices which drive deforestation to feed their families.As a result of the civil war farmers can't access the information, training and inputs they need leading to lower yields, a reputation for poor quality and prices significantly below the market rate resulting in reduced incomes.Using a tried and tested approach this project aims to build the capacity of local partners to provide services which increase productivity and quality; build a strong producer organization; and establish a Gola cocoa brand in the international market.
National Lottery Community Fund - DOUBLE ESPRESSO: Coffee Under Threat!
£504,571	22/02/2012 36	This project, based in Nicaragua, will enable smallholder coffee farmers and their households to adapt to climate change and market volatility. The project aims to build men and women smallholders' ....more This project, based in Nicaragua, will enable smallholder coffee farmers and their households to adapt to climate change and market volatility. The project aims to build men and women smallholders' adaptive capacity through interventions at three levels: smallholder farmer, producer organisation and national.
National Lottery Community Fund - DOUBLE ESPRESSO: Coffee Under Threat!
£14,991	29/06/2011 12	This project, based in Nicaragua, will enable smallholder coffee farmers and their households to adapt to climate change and deal with volatile markets.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/05/1985, number: 291824

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR16: 21 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY IN COUNTRIES WHICH ARE ECONOMICALLY UNDERPRIVILEGED THROUGH WANT OF DEVELOPMENT OR OF A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE OF THOSE COMMODITIES AND FACILITIES WHICH ENHANCE HUMAN EXISTENCE AND ENRICH IT SUCH AS EDUCATION AND FREEDOM FROM THE THREAT OF DISEASE AND UNDERNOURISHMENT OR STARVATION (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:- (A) PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL NEEDS OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTIRES AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; (B) PROMOTING PUBLIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIATE TO THE NEEDS OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; (C) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS AND ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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