Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

UNIVERSIFY EDUCATION

Universify Education?s charitable purpose is to address educational inequality. The charity undertakes a year-long intervention for Year 10-11 students from non-selective state schools to increase access to highly selective universities. The intervention includes: A week-long residential summer programme, Monthly one-to-one coaching, online and A 3-day residential Easter revision programme.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
30/04/23£453£415£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/22£263£232£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/21£116£115£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/20£218£209£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/19£213£210£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/18£117£105£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/17£60£60£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.universifyeducation.com

info@universifyeducation.com

01865264183

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Walcot Foundation - Improving the academic attainment of young people in Lambeth
£8,400 23/03/2023
The programme includes two university residentials and monthly 1:1 coaching for low-income Lambeth resident pupils, starting towards the end of Year 10 and working with them through to the end of ....more
Walcot Foundation - Cost of Living Top-Up Grant
£1,500 18/11/2022
Cost of Living Top Up Grant awarded to support small/medium-size organisations with additional costs incurred due to the cost of living crisis.
Walcot Foundation - Improving the academic attainment of young people in Lambeth
£9,342 15/11/2021
The programme includes two university residentials and monthly 1:1 coaching for low-income Lambeth resident pupils, starting towards the end of Year 10 and working with them through to the end of ....more
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Universify Education
£2,000 15/06/2021
Unrestricted via TFN

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-59
  • AMY LOUISE ELLIS-THOMSPON Appointed: 2023
  • DR STEVE RAYNER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Senior Tutor
  • HARRY HORTYN (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Educationalist
  • HELEN CLARE NORMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Centre Leader
  • JAMES GREGORY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Assistant Headteacher
  • MARCO LOGIUDICE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Product Officer
  • MARGOT QUEENIE SPRAGUE-DAVIES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Development Manager
  • MARY NICHOLSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Responsible Investment
  • MATTHEW LACEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • STEVEN BARRIE SMITH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/05/2016, number: 1167240
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/04/2016, number: 10114061
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
  • 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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

18 Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2NA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION IN THE UK AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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