Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5

CORAM BEANSTALK 

Coram Beanstalk works with schools to provide the highest quality and best value one-to-one support. We provide trained reading helpers who give consistent and bespoke support to children enabling them to develop to confident reading skills. Our vision is that "all children and young people will have the essential skills they need to grow up and lead successful lives".
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 33 years
(37 years as a company)

www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk

info@beanstalkcharity.org.uk

02077497961

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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£1,229£863£366£109£684£6849.5191,600
31/03/22£1,196£1,002£195£120£318£2603.1231,609
31/03/21£1,233£1,225£8£135£123£150.133402
31/03/20£2,214£1,888£326£233£115£-54-0.3433,000
31/03/19?£1,103£1,895£-792£222£-211£-363-2.3723,000
31/08/18£3,613£4,005£-391£450£581£1800.51260
31/08/17£3,790£3,551£239£418£973£4121.41210
31/08/16£3,269£3,152£117£379£734£6072.31110
31/08/15£2,920£3,057£-138£410£617£6172.4710
31/08/14£2,815£2,637£178£384£754£6382.9530
31/08/13£2,185£2,286£-100£399£576£4742.5470
31/08/12£1,884£1,919£-36£311£676£5823.6460
31/08/11£1,621£1,610£11£248£712£5624.2410
31/08/10£1,749£1,580£168£252£701£6004.6390
31/08/09£1,856£1,594£261£295£533£3272.5390
31/08/08?£2,931£2,973£-43£518£272£1240.5520
31/03/07£2,414£2,152£262£467£315£2291.3610
31/03/06£2,034£2,103£-69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,927£1,998£-71£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,092£1,956£136£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 25%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 9.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 1,600 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
Rank Foundation£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,953
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Coram Beanstalk 2020
£15,000 07/08/2020
To cover lost income
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£150,000 28/06/2019
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Get Birmingham Reading!
£9,953 14/06/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a reading programme for primary school children. The project aims to engage children in developing literacy skills and positive attitudes towards reading.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Get Cheshire Reading!
£9,994 30/11/2017
Beanstalk recruits, vets, trains and supports reading helpers, who volunteer their time to support children with their reading, providing each child with two 30 minute one-to-one literacy sessions ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£120,000 16/11/2017
Pit for the Future
County Durham Community Foundation - Get County Durham Reading!
£2,500 10/10/2017
To support the "Get County Durham Reading" project.
Dulverton Trust - Get the North East reading!
£90,000 14/06/2017
Get the North East reading!
Dulverton Trust - The Gift of Reading - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
£4,830 14/06/2017
The Gift of Reading - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Beanstalk and London Luton Airport for the magic of reading
£6,213 25/04/2017
12
Grant to Beanstalk (formerly Volunteer Reading Help) - East Midlands Office
Nesta - AC00594
£49,044 07/03/2017
14
Give More Get More programme grant to Beanstalk Grant Ref AC00594
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Beanstalk
£7,000 27/02/2017
12
Provides school-based volunteer delivered reading support to Hounslow primary school children. Sixteen volunteers would provide twice weekly 30 minutes sessions to 48 children.
Masonic Trust - Literacy Support Sessions
£31,680 19/10/2016
One-to-one literacy support sessions for Looked After Children.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Rewriting the story of children across Cheshire
£5,114 27/07/2016
Beanstalk is the national literacy charity that recruits,trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who are struggling with their reading ability and confidence. The ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2015
£2,760 18/12/2015
Please give to the Christmas Challenge 2017 by donating from NOON on TUESDAY 28th NOVEMBER . Your donation will help Beanstalk to recruit, train and support reading helper volunteers who will work in ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Beanstalk
£90,000 11/09/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of a project that provides support to disadvantaged children in Merseyside who are struggling with their reading
Dulverton Trust - expansion in the East Midlands
£30,000 11/06/2014
expansion in the East Midlands
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Beanstalk
£25,000 01/07/2010
Beanstalk helps children who have fallen behind to develop a love of reading by reading one-to-one with a trained volunteer.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Beanstalk
£150,000 01/07/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the volunteer service manager to implement the organisational sustainability plan.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 47-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/07/1991, number: 296454
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/02/1987, number: 02101719
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

Coram
41 Brunswick Square
London
WC1N 1AZ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PARTICULARLY BY HELPING THEM OVERCOME READING DIFFICULTIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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