Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

FULL FACT 

We provide free tools, advice, and information so that anyone can check the claims we hear about public issues.
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Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
Established: 10 years
(14 years as a company)

fullfact.org

team@fullfact.org

02033975140

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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
31/12/22£2,548£2,498£50£218£1,317£1,2886.2360
31/12/21£2,450£2,410£40£181£1,267£1,2676.3310
31/12/20£2,316£2,035£281£70£1,227£1,2197.2320
31/12/19£2,339£1,557£782£0£946£7996.2221
31/12/18£669£912£-242£0£164£901.21610
31/12/17£1,079£752£327£0£407£3866.2110
31/12/16£558£489£69£0£80£802110
31/12/15£557£568£-11£2£11£110.2110

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 27%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 6.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 4.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 36 employees
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, 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
Nuffield Foundation£360,000
Esmee Fairbairn£230,000
John Ellerman Foundation£200,000
Pears Foundation£150,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£150,000
Dulverton Trust£140,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Core Funding
£105,000 08/06/2022
Core Funding
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£150,000 26/05/2022
Core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 06/05/2022
Full Fact 2022
Pears Foundation - Grant to Full Fact
£150,000 14/01/2022
Core Funding
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Full Fact
£300,000 20/12/2021
39
Towards Full Fact-Effective and proportionate evidence-based responses to misinformation
Dulverton Trust - Full Fact - Core Funding
£35,000 10/02/2021
Full Fact - Core Funding
John Ellerman Foundation - We are seeking your support towards Full Fact's core costs.
£50,000 28/01/2021
Towards the costs of working alongside those with personal experience of the harm caused by bad information and supporting everyone to demand a better quality of public debate.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Full Fact
£150,000 28/11/2020
36
Core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 04/09/2020
Full Fact - the UK's independent fact checking charity
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Full Fact
£30,000 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Nesta - AC01040
£10,000 09/03/2020
7
2020 Democracy Pioneers programme grant to Full Fact Grant Ref AC01040
Nuffield Foundation - Welfare Grant
£60,000 04/11/2019
Fact Checking the 2019 General Election
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Full Fact
£200,000 24/07/2019
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to tackle misinformation and improve the quality of public debate.
Nuffield Foundation - Cross-cutting grant
£300,000 02/01/2019
Full Fact 2018-2021
Nuffield Foundation - Welfare Grant
£300,000 02/01/2019
Full Fact 2018-2021
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hoop(Helping Overcome Obesity Problems)
£8,468 19/11/2018
We are trying to raise funds to keep our monthly support meetings going and provide a few days trips for members.
Nuffield Foundation - Cross-cutting grant
£40,000 05/05/2017
Full Fact Election 2017
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Full Fact 7:24
£75,000 21/03/2017
24
Core funding to enable Full Fact to develop its capacity, reach and services
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Facts and factchecking for the EU referendum
£40,000 24/03/2016
3
To run a factchecking service in the period running up to the EU referendum, to try to ensure accurate use of data by politicians and the media
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Full Fact
£150,000 16/12/2015
36
Towards core costs to enable the organisation to improve the effectiveness and impact of its fact-checking model and explore income generation streams.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Full Fact Rebooted
£50,000 26/04/2014
Full Fact Rebooted
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Mobilising experts in civil society to inform public debate
£30,000 22/03/2013
Mobilising experts in civil society to inform public debate
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Full Fact
£120,000 19/10/2011
Towards core costs to keep politicians and other political players honest by checking their claims, rebutting misleading assertions and informing public debate.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 48-72
  • ANNA COOK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
  • CLAIRE WARDLE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Co-Founder And Executive Director - First Draft
  • JAMES PAUL HARDING Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Founder And Editor-In-Chief Tortoise Media Limited
  • TIM GORDON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2014, number: 1158683
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/07/2009, number: 06975984
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from EDUCATION MEDIA CENTRE on 08/12/2023
Main office

17 Oval Way
London
SE115RR

Objectives

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit:(1) to advance public education in the fields of crime, health, immigration, economy, education, environment and social welfare, through education, research and training, to promote and advance public understanding and inform public debate in those fields and in particular by making available to the public, through a process of objective, impartial research and rigorous factual analysis, full, accurate and relevant information to assist such public understanding and to inform and improve the quality of public debate(2) to promote citizenship and civic responsibility including by encouraging and facilitating informed participation and engagement by members of the public in their communities, promoting high standards of informed public debate and the provision of Public Interest Content by exclusively charitable means(3) to advance health and in particular to minimise the damage to people’s health caused by inaccurate or unreliable information“Public Interest Content” means news and other information, which is generated, checked, confirmed, corrected as necessary and disseminated to the public online or by other means according to high standards of ethical conduct and best practice in journalism and which provides one or more of the following benefits to the public:• informs members of the public about matters of relevance to their role and responsibilities as citizens;• enables members of local communities to become aware of and understand matters of common concern to them as members of their community and which promotes their involvement and cooperation in such matters and community cohesion accordingly;• enables members of the public to participate in an informed manner in relevant democratic processes and, as a result, supports the legitimacy of the democratic process as a whole;• benefits the public by promoting charitable educational outcomes, such as improving public understanding of health and medical matters or the conservation of the environmentSuch purposes shall in all respects and at all times be construed and promoted:(i) in an impartial, objective, balanced and independent manner observing strict political neutrality; and(ii) exclusively for the benefit of the public and in accordance with the law relating to charity in England and Wales.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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