Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Good reserves: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST 

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation, committed to supporting vulnerable and marginalised people in society. The Trust promotes social justice through grant making, research, influencing public opinion and policy and supporting local communities. The Trust has three key programmes of work: Criminal Justice, Migration and Economic Justice.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year but the charity has substantial reserves available
Established: 18 years

www.barrowcadbury.org.uk

general@barrowcadbury.org.uk

02076329075

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX

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£5,517£6,837£-1,320£0£90,908£10,79218.9170
31/03/22£3,192£5,462£-2,270£0£98,256£30,05566160
31/03/21£8,480£11,506£-3,026£0£96,999£34,36335.8160
31/03/20£3,954£6,002£-2,048£0£82,130£21,65643.3170
31/03/19£4,208£7,503£-3,295£0£87,027£26,72042.7170
31/03/18£4,550£5,807£-1,257£0£86,200£24,12449.9130
31/03/17£2,950£4,904£-1,954£0£87,177£11,00126.9110
31/03/16£3,048£5,248£-2,200£0£79,548£20,27446.4110
31/03/15£2,599£4,877£-2,278£66£86,061£13,54933.3130
31/03/14£2,791£4,856£-2,065£72£80,183£9,66923.9130
31/03/13£3,012£5,294£-2,282£79£77,960£9,54921.6130
31/03/12£2,656£4,528£-1,872£70£72,014£9,18024.3110
31/03/11£2,227£4,577£-2,350£75£77,710£8,91523.4110
31/03/10£1,436£4,841£-3,405£90£63,467£0n/a120
31/03/09*£1,868£4,130£-2,262£127£59,550£7,41921.6170
31/03/08£3,112£2,590£521£89£80,154£11,56253.6100
31/03/07*£1,755£1,562£194£61£83,218£13,639104.890

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 90%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 12%
Reserves/Spending: 18.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£450,000
Trust for London£300,000
Tudor Trust£150,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£120,000
Friends Provident Foundation£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£1,000 06/02/2023
Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Barrow Cadbury Trust
£120,000 13/10/2022
Grant to The Barrow Cadbury Trust towards work to influence reform in the criminal justice system.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fair By Design - eliminating the poverty premium
£450,000 31/03/2022
The project is using funding to deliver the Fair By Design (FBD) policy and influencing programme to help regulators government and businesses to design out the poverty premium.
Trust for London - Barrow Cadbury Trust
£150,000 13/10/2021
36
The funding is for the general costs of Fair By Design, contributing to its salaries and other costs for its policy and advocacy work.
Comic Relief - Funders for Race Equality Alliance
£30,000 26/01/2021
The Funders for Race Equality Alliance is a network of charitable foundations working together to achieve race equality in the UK. Established informally in 2015, the Alliance is facilitated and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£20,000 15/12/2020
24
Towards core costs of the Funders for Racial Equality Alliance secretariat.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Funders for Race Equality
£15,000 26/11/2020
The Funders for Race Equality Alliance is a group of charitable foundations working together to achieve race equality in the UK.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Barrow Cadbury
£12,000 27/10/2020
COVID19 : contribution towards the secretariat costs of the Funders for Race Equality Alliance
Friends Provident Foundation - The Barrow Cadbury Trust - Fair By Design
£60,000 15/09/2020
Fair By Design (FBD)’s vision is for a UK where poor and low income people pay a fair price for essential services. FBD’s mission is to eliminate the poverty premium by 2028.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£150,000 16/03/2020
36
over three years as continuation funding for the Fair by Design Campaign, hosted by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, which is working to address the poverty premium
Trust for London - Barrow Cadbury Trust
£150,000 10/10/2019
36
The funding is for the general costs of the Fair By Design Campaign, contributing to its salaries and other campaign costs.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Funders for Race Equality Alliance
£15,000 27/03/2019
12
Contribution to the costs of convening for the Funders for Race Equality.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Barrow Cadbury Trust
£20,000 14/12/2018
24
To fund the costs of a secretariat for the Funders for Race Equality Alliance. The alliance was formed in recognition that addressing race inquality is a common thread through the work of the funders ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Funders for Race Equality ? funding the costs of a secretariat
£20,000 16/11/2018
23
Funders for Race Equality ' funding the costs of a secretariat
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Funders for Race Equality
£15,000 09/11/2018
12
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation, committed to bringing about socially just change. This grant was a contribution to the secretariat for the Funders for Race Equality ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£20,000 30/07/2018
24
Towards the cost of a secretariat for Funders for Racial Equality and its sister network CORE, the overall aim being to deliver change in individual foundation practice and in relationships between ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£20,000 07/07/2018
24
Running costs of the Funders for Race Equality Alliance
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Funders for Race Equality
£20,000 18/06/2018
24
Two year support for the alliance of Funders for Race Equality Secretariat
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Birmingham & Black Country: migration and integration coordination project
£60,000 14/05/2018
36
Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation committed to bringing about socially just change. This project will test a new coordination and communications model to promote a ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£150,000 21/02/2018
36
over three years towards the Fair by Design campaign, intended to end the 'poverty premium', hosted by the Barrow Cadbury Trust
Comic Relief - Fair By design: making life affordable
£200,000 29/11/2017
36
In the UK, people in poverty or on low incomes often pay more for the same products or services than people who are better off financially. This is known as the “poverty premium” – the extra ....more
DCMS - Connect Fund
£1,194,261 27/03/2017
The Connect Fund is a social investment infrastructure fund, providing grants and investments to organisations providing support services to charities and social enterprises seeking investment. ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Funder Alliance on Ethnicity and Social Justice
£10,000 13/03/2017
6
To continue to support joint work between funders and race equality organisations to discuss practice and priority areas for action
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Citizen disengagement - lessons for funders
£5,000 27/02/2017
6
A short research and provocation paper looking at how funders can work together and improve their responses to citizen disenfranchisement in Europe
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Barrow Cadbury Trust
£3,000 21/12/2016
To support the puplicaton of a report on the lessons and implications following the Brexit vote on the funding ecology ofUK and other Euro funders.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£5,000 29/06/2016
12
Towards Project costs Towards a small joint fund to support the participation of BAMER led organisations in an alliance with funders which is working to address shared concerns about race inequality.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - AGENDA
£121,000 18/06/2014
For core costs (hosting by the Young Foundation and recruitment of a Director and other key staff) of AGENDA: the alliance for women and girls at risk
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Barrow Cadbury Trust
£15,000 29/05/2012
Towards the co-ordination costs of the Changing Minds initiative.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-75
  • JOHN SERLE Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/07/2006, number: 1115476
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/06/2006, number: 05836950
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR09: 5 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

The Foundry
17 Oval Way
LONDON
SE11 5RR

Objectives

TO SUPPORT SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS, PURPOSES, INSTITUTIONS OR SOCIETIES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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