Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

RIPPLE EFFECT INTERNATIONAL 

Work in six countries in Africa to provide a package of on-going support and practical training over three to five years, including training in farming skills, gender equality, sanitation and money management . alongside the provision of livestock and tools - to ensure that some of Africa's most marginalised people have the confidence, knowledge and skills to help themselves.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 35 years

www.rippleeffect.org

info@rippleeffect.org

01225874222

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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
30/06/23£9,919£8,799£1,120£1,494£2,697£3900.525650
30/06/22£7,521£7,905£-384£1,424£1,577£9141.422625
30/06/21£6,651£6,818£-167£1,368£1,961£1,3162.323350
30/06/20£7,192£7,164£29£1,400£2,127£1,0221.7253115
30/06/19£8,347£8,294£53£1,601£2,099£1,2871.9281115
30/06/18£7,578£7,255£323£1,077£2,045£1,1111.82710
30/06/17£6,909£6,886£23£1,035£1,722£7621.32480
30/06/16£6,523£6,749£-226£1,285£1,699£8801.61990
30/06/15£6,712£6,695£17£1,296£1,924£1,2802.31780
30/06/14£6,276£5,878£398£1,200£1,908£1,1392.31320
30/06/13£4,830£4,901£-70£1,089£1,510£7921.9340
30/06/12£3,904£4,116£-212£996£1,580£1,2003.5280
30/06/11£4,061£3,844£217£786£1,792£1,4444.5250
30/06/10£3,189£3,835£-646£883£1,467£1,2814260
30/06/09£3,877£4,588£-712£1,129£2,073£1,7514.6280
30/06/08£4,133£5,254£-1,121£1,337£2,873£2,6646.1320
30/06/07£4,706£4,742£-36£1,238£4,103£2,9147.4280
30/06/06£5,434£3,931£1,503£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05?£4,632£3,546£1,087£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,475£1,621£854£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 14%
Reserves/Spending: 0.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8
Asset Split ?
Comment: Income has grown this year by almost £700,000, and investment in digital fundraising to engage with younger audiences including launching a new, more functional website has helped this revenue delivery. Their partnership fundraising team has also increased in staff capacity to continue expanding income sources.

Source: Giving is Great

What it does
  • Animals
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 256 employees
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia,

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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DARPP215: Improving Ecological Connectivity for Enhanced Biodiversity and Livelihoods in MFCA
£9,956 10/12/2021
Improving Ecological Connectivity for Enhanced Biodiversity and Livelihoods in MFCA
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Ripple Effect (formerly Send a Cow)
£25,000 27/02/2020
The Living with Wildlife Project (2020-2023) Uganda
National Lottery Community Fund - Audit of ADIMAP project
£4,230 29/03/2019
24
Audit of ADIMAP project
National Lottery Community Fund - People Led Livelihoods - disability mainstreaming
£498,402 23/12/2017
36
Building on an ongoing USAID funded partnership working exclusively to support women with disabilities, this project will deliver SAC’s model across a project area in Northern Uganda, with a strong ....more
Dulverton Trust - MFCA Feasibility Study
£15,924 14/12/2016
MFCA Feasibility Study
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing Smallholder Farmers in Southern Ethiopia
£504,821 22/12/2014
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Livelihoods for Kenyan farming families
£501,096 25/06/2013
48
The project in the Western Region of Kenya aims to improve the livelihoods of 5,000 impoverished farmers and their families (35,000 people), helping them overcome malnutrition and poverty. The ....more
Dulverton Trust - the Food Security and Self-Sufficiency Project, Lesotho
£30,000 19/06/2013
the Food Security and Self-Sufficiency Project, Lesotho
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/10/1988, number: 299717
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/08/1988, number: 02290024
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
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from EMERGE POVERTY FREE on 05/10/2022
Main office

THE OLD ESTATE YARD
NEWTON ST. LOE
BATH
BA2 9BR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE PRIMARILY TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST THOSE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE IN COUNTRIES OF LOW PER CAPITA INCOME, PARTICULARLY THROUGH TRAINING IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND BY THE PROVISION OF LIVESTOCK AND/OR OTHER RESOURCES. A FURTHER OBJECT IS TO EDUCATE AUDIENCES AND ADVOCATE FOR EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. THESE OBJECTS ARE TO BE PURSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND VALUES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

OVERSEAS COUNTRIES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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