Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Spending falling: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 8

PURE LEAPFROG

We are dedicated to ensuring community energy becomes a significant part of sustainable energy in the UK through accessible expertise & affordable finance to community energy groups. Our member network provides free expert professional advice to help carbon reduction projects overcome barriers to success. Our Community Energy Fund offers low interest loans for community renewable energy projects.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 18 years

www.pureleapfrog.org

info@pureleapfrog.org

07399195085

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	Volun- teers
31/08/22		£487	£527	£-41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/21		£530	£529	£1	£0	£319	£38	0.9	6	1
31/08/20		£2,299	£2,272	£27	£1,705	£318	£22	0.1	7	1
31/08/19		£1,822	£1,746	£76	£1,266	£290	£91	0.6	5	1
31/08/18	*	£1,766	£1,962	£-197	£1,362	£220	£42	0.3	3	0
31/08/17		£461	£464	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£978	£1,027	£-49	£509	£246	£65	0.8	5	0
31/08/15		£468	£589	£-121	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£601	£598	£4	£11	£416	£77	1.5	4	0
31/08/13		£313	£337	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£332	£240	£92	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11		£397	£359	£38	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/10		£356	£359	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/09		£347	£465	£-118	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/08		£1,190	£1,011	£179	£14	£384	£39	0.5	0	0
31/08/07		£584	£379	£205	£10	£205	£205	6.5	0	0
31/08/06	*	£0	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 32%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides other finance

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

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
Dulverton Trust - Decent Homes pilot preparation costs
£24,394	19/10/2022	Decent Homes pilot preparation costs
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - REWIRE-NW
£53,500	01/06/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=74748
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - REWIRE-NW
£133,761	01/04/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105846
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Pure Leapfrog
£105,000	01/12/2018 36	Leapfrog Launchpad
Friends Provident Foundation - Pure Leapfrog - Monitoring and Evaluating Community Energyâ€™s Social Impact
£38,500	13/06/2017	- Currently no agreed standards exist for the monitoring and evaluating of Community Energy projects. This hampers the sector in raising funds, lobbying and community outreach. - Pure Leapfrog is ....more - Currently no agreed standards exist for the monitoring and evaluating of Community Energy projects. This hampers the sector in raising funds, lobbying and community outreach. - Pure Leapfrog is working in collaboration with Community Energy England (CEE) and South East Community Energy (SELCE). - We are creating an adaptive monitoring system for community energy groups that distils the key social and environmental information about their projects. - The tool will create a sector-wide standardised way for community groups to measure, monitor and evaluate the impact their projects have. - This will help the sector to report with confidence to key stakeholders including government and support groups to improve the impact they have.
Friends Provident Foundation - Pure Leapfrog - Community Energy Legal Toolkit
£98,200	10/03/2015	We are requesting a grant to develop a centralised licensing platform to enable community energy groups to access standardised and affordable template legal, financial and other documents. These will ....more We are requesting a grant to develop a centralised licensing platform to enable community energy groups to access standardised and affordable template legal, financial and other documents. These will accelerate the delivery of hundreds of projects
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pure Leapfrog
£24,500	03/10/2014	Towards the development costs of a community, energy-based fund.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pure Leapfrog
£99,936	13/11/2013	Towards the salary of the project origination officer, to allow the activities in issuing loans for community energy projects that deliver social impact and carbon emission reductions.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pure Leapfrog
£60,000	17/11/2010 24	Towards Core costs Towards core support for early stage growth, providing pro-bono support to carbon reducing community projects from a wide range of professions in one integrated service.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-64

DR MICHAEL JAMPEL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Freelance Consultant

GRAEME LUDLOW (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Manging Director

MARK HENDERSON Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Financier

SHELAGH KIRKLAND Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: PEOPLE'S HEALTH TRUST,

SIMON CORDERY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Business Development/Venture Specialist

SOPHIE PUGHE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lawyer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/11/2005, number: 1112249
Registered at Companies House on 11/08/2005, number: 05534395

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

17 returns made; AR18: 31 days late, AR06: 52 days late,

Main office

Pure Leapfrog
7-14 Great Dover Street
LONDON
SE1 4YR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, PRINCIPALLY IN THE AREAS OF AIR AND WATER (THE OBJECTS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

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