Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

THE FRONTLINE ORGANISATION 

Frontline recruits and develops outstanding individuals to be social workers and leaders to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children and families.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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
Established: 9 years

http://www.thefrontline.org.uk/

charitycommission@thefrontline.org.uk

02037613684

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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
31/08/23£26,174£25,218£956£638£8,273£8,1863.917610
31/08/22£24,792£23,819£973£445£7,317£7,0673.61940
31/08/21£23,511£22,088£1,423£228£6,344£6,3443.42002
31/08/20£22,759£20,708£2,051£245£4,921£4,6712.71912
31/08/19£19,637£18,558£1,079£191£2,870£2,1981.41612
31/08/18£15,982£15,449£533£304£1,791£1,7181.31260
31/08/17£11,650£11,221£429£97£1,258£1,2281.3860
31/08/16£9,164£8,335£829£66£829£9211.3470

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 176 employees
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Department for Education - Firstline grant
£202,497 01/04/2020
Frontline is targeted at bringing high-performing graduates with leadership potential into child and family social work. Firstline is Frontline's local authority CPD leadership programme.
Department for Education - Frontline bursaries
£11,398,810 01/04/2020
Frontline is targeted at bringing high-performing graduates with leadership potential into child and family social work.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£750,000 18/01/2019
Enhancement Activities: Improving social work in England for vulnerable children and families
Dulverton Trust - Firstline Leadership Development Programme
£32,000 14/06/2017
Firstline Leadership Development Programme
Department for Education - Frontline Social Work Entry Route Pilot
£2,454,333 01/04/2016
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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: 38-64
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/08/2015, number: 1163194
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/05/2015, number: 09605966
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Coram Campus
41 Brunswick Square
London
WC1N 1AZ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE AND ALLIED FIELDS BY PROVIDING TRAINING COURSES WHICH COMBINE STUDY-BASED LEARNING AND SUPERVISED PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING, AND BY ANY OTHER RELEVANT METHODS.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE AND ALLIED FIELDS TO IMPROVE STANDARDS OF SOCIAL CARE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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