Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 16
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -5
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +16
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The Foundation's overarching aim is to transform the use of financial systems into an informed activity that offers social as well as economic benefits, alleviating social disharmony and inequality.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities
  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £22,806,154 available, equivalent to 119 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending is declining
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£723£2,309£-1,587£4£22,935£22,806118.587
30/09/22£690£2,951£-2,261£5£23,880£23,79896.8813
30/09/21£535£3,462£-2,928£0£29,931£0n/a814
30/09/20£575£2,875£-2,300£13£28,809£0n/a810
30/09/19£815£3,432£-2,617£1£30,965£0n/a70
30/09/18£885£4,173£-3,288£43£32,166£200.160
30/09/17£904£2,342£-1,438£32£33,753£800.460
30/09/16£913£1,969£-1,055£0£32,829£200.130
30/09/15£945£1,543£-598£34£30,033£680.520
30/09/14£963£1,138£-175£28£29,928£5926.220
30/09/13£879£603£276£12£28,756£92218.330
30/09/12£981£639£341£54£26,009£66812.530
30/09/11£969£820£148£52£22,915£3264.830
30/09/10£894£782£112£53£24,061£1782.730
30/09/09£887£947£-60£53£22,011£660.830
30/09/08£1,061£990£70£62£20,939£1261.530
30/09/07£1,354£1,135£220£48£25,363£560.620
30/09/06£1,394£1,549£-154n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/05£1,107£1,694£-587n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04£343£217£126n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 306%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 118.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

http://www.friendsprovidentfoundation.org

enquiries@friendsprovidentfoundation.org.uk

01904629675

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides other finance
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Friends Provident Foundation£243,802
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£95,000
The Blagrave Trust£90,000
Indigo Trust£45,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£45,000
Esmee Fairbairn£45,000
John Ellerman Foundation£30,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Funding for the Foundation Practice Rating
£50,000 20/03/2024
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Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They lead the Foundation Practice ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Flexible Fund
£70,000 30/11/2023
Index of Foundation Diversity
Friends Provident Foundation - Community Action Groups Project Oxfordshire - Owned by Oxford: Black, Minoritised, marginalised communities creating a j
£120,000 29/09/2023
Oxford has a wealth inequality problem, with roots entwined in colonialism, institutional racism and classism. This obstructs progress towards a fair and sustainable economy for the City. Recent ....more
Indigo Trust - Towards continuing the Foundation Practice Rating
£45,000 22/09/2022
Towards continuing the Foundation Practice Rating
Friends Provident Foundation - King's College, London - Citizens' Economic Council on the Cost of Living
£85,802 01/09/2022
National debt lies at the heart of UK economic policy, and positions on it strongly condition choices about whether to fund social and welfare schemes that support society's most vulnerable. Yet the ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Support for the Foundation Practice Rating (FPR)
£30,000 06/07/2022
Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They aim to connect, fund, invest ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Friends Provident Charitable Foundation
£45,000 09/07/2021
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Index of Foundation Diversity, Transparency and Accountability
John Ellerman Foundation - Index of Foundation Diversity, Transparency and Accountability
£30,000 25/03/2021
Index of Foundation Diversity, Transparency and Accountability
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends Provident Foundation
£45,000 10/02/2021
Towards unrestricted core costs To create an index of independent trusts and foundations in the UK in relation to good governance and transparency.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Index of Foundation Diversity, Inclusion and Transparency
£15,000 21/01/2021
Friends Provident Foundation is an independent grant making charity. This grant supports a review of publicly available data on foundation governance and practice for the top 100 UK foundations to ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Index of Foundation Diversity
£20,000 17/11/2020
To research and publish an annual Index of Foundation Diversity.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Index of Diversity Inclusion and Transparency
£20,000 11/08/2020
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To create an index to measure Foundations' performance on diversity, equity and transparency.
Friends Provident Foundation - Manchester Metropolitan University-Teaching Economic Policy Institutions
£38,000 01/06/2020
This project aims to fill a major gap in economic understanding, by developing new teaching resources on economic policy-making institutions, on the basis of an original appraisal of the state of ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security-Bringing Realism to the Economics of Climate Change
£197,400 01/07/2019
This project will extend the capabilities of the Open Source system dynamics program Minksy (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/), by adding the ability to model the input-output nature of a ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - University College London - CORE Economics Education phase 2
£200,000 01/04/2019
A new public understanding of how the economy works and how it could be made to work better is an essential foundation for addressing the challenges of climate change, economic instability, ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - BFG - Rewriting the rules: designing an economy for the 21st century
£5,000 25/03/2019
BFG's New Economy meeting - March 27-29 in Cleveland, Ohio: Rewriting the Rules: Designing an Economy for the 21st Century The Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) will host a New Economy funders ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - Riding Sunbeams- Riding Sunbeams
£100,000 12/03/2019
Community Energy South and 10:10 have been working with Network Rail and partners to evaluate the innovation potential for connecting solar to the rail network in the South East. We have undertaken ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - University of York - 2019 Festival of Ideas
£10,000 12/03/2019
A contribution to the Economics Focus day 2019 designed to education, entertain and inspire students and wider audiences.
Friends Provident Foundation - Fair Tax Mark Ltd-Fair Tax Towns / Fair Tax Fortnight
£30,000 13/03/2018
Take the visibility, impact and influence of the Fair Tax Mark to the next level via two new major programmes. 1)Develop and launch a Fair Tax Fortnight in the summer of 2018. This will not only ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - University of Birmingham (CHASM) - Monitoring Financial inclusion 2018-2022
£50,000 13/03/2018
The project will monitor trends in Financial inclusion from 2018-2022. We focus on three key components that people need in order to achieve Financial inclusion as follows: A secure income which ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - Far Nearer- Bringing Local Economies Closer to Home
£47,500 12/12/2017
The Friends Provident Foundation is behind Far Nearer, the first UK-wide map of local economies. This project documents initiatives across housing, energy, food supply, money and more at this ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - FPF - Resilient Economies Journalist Fellowship 2
£180,000 12/09/2017
A fellowship to encourage journalists to engage in our objective to build more resilient economies by producing accessible output on key Foundation themes.
Friends Provident Foundation - Compass- Ten Year UBI Acceleration Plan
£33,000 12/09/2017
There is a growing debate about the feasibility/desirability of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). But the options seems to be either a low level scheme that does too little to change people's lives or ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - Friends Provident Foundation Ideas Development Fund
£20,000 13/06/2017
At their 2017 Away Day Trustees were asked to bring forward 'pitches' - their ideas of areas where the Foundation could have more impact, develop new activities etc. These were discussed on the day ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - The City University London - Creating a Social Wealth Fund in the UK
£75,251 07/06/2016
The project explores the way the UK could harness its public sector wealth for public benefit by creating a Social Wealth Fund. Such a fund could generate billions of pounds in revenue to pay for ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - FPF - Resilient Economies Journalist Fellowship
£70,075 16/06/2015
A fellowship to encourage journalists to engage in our objective to build more resilient economies by producing accessible output on key Foundation themes.
Friends Provident Foundation - University College London - CORE project
£180,362 10/03/2015
CORE's free online introductory economics resource seeks to inform and empower learners (either as students or citizens) to debate and address the systemic challenges of financial instability, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-55
  • ABRAHAM ALEXANDER BALDRY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Campaign Strategist/Consultant
  • ANN PIYOLIN DON BOSCO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant
  • CAROLINE MAY TAYLOR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Chief Executive
  • KATHLEEN MARY JOAN KELLY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • PAUL BARNABAS BLYTH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant
  • STEPHANIE CYNTHIA MAIER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Investment Director
  • STEPHEN MARK MUERS (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2001, number: 1087053
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/06/2001, number: 04228843
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

PRIORY STREET CENTRE
15 PRIORY STREET
YORK
YO1 6ET

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE FOUNDATION ARE TO PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME OR (IF AND WHEN THE TRUSTEES SHALL SEE FIT) THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE FOUNDATION TO ANY CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, TRUSTS OR FUNDS OR FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES PRINCIPALLY IN BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (THE OBJECTS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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