Overall GiG Score: 28 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

HEARD ORGANISATION LIMITED 

Interactions that bring together media professionals with projects' beneficiaries;Training beneficiaries to create their own media / necessary skills and confidence to engage with the media;Collaboration over content with media professionals;Peer support and regular mentoring to beneficiaries to know boundaries and make informed decisions about how and when they will engage with the media.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
Established: 8 years
(15 years as a company)

https://heard.org.uk/

info@heard.org.uk

02035596762

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UN SDGs
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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
31/10/22£918£825£92£11£321£2303.3140
31/10/21£757£614£143£0£228£1282.511298
31/10/20£486£458£29n/an/an/an/an/a300
31/10/19£305£273£32n/an/an/an/an/a260
31/10/18£232£223£9£0£0£0n/a0250
31/10/17*£167£157£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£119£118£1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 50%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 14 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
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
True Colours Trust£500,412
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£441,975
Trust for London£298,462
Esmee Fairbairn£186,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£150,000
City Bridge Trust£130,000
Mark Leonard Trust£128,320
Gower Street£102,751
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
J J Charitable Trust - Towards the core climate team in 2024/25
£15,000 12/10/2023
Towards the core climate team in 2024/25
Mark Leonard Trust - Towards the core climate team in 2024/25.
£15,000 12/10/2023
Towards the core climate team in 2024/25.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Heard Organisation Limited
£6,000 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Backbone Grants 2019-20 Supporting a Thriving Civil Society
£12,000 18/01/2023
On Road is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant supports OTR to ....more
Gower Street - Core Cost support
£35,000 23/11/2022
Continuation funding (23-24) for climate programme.
True Colours Trust - Towards a project to scale up and embed effective framing of children's palliative care
£232,808 15/11/2022
Towards a project to scale up and embed effective framing of children's palliative care.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to On Road Media
£20,000 06/10/2022
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards activities related to migration and associated core costs. On Road Media supports people, campaigners, journalists and broadcasters to create social change by ....more
Trust for London - On Road Media
£10,600 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8962
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - All About Trans
£150,000 29/09/2022
On Road Media aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant will support the development of All ....more
Trust for London - On Road Media
£29,362 21/07/2022
The funding is to research the most effective ways to frame and message the Commission’s proposals, for non-expert audiences, to provide a concise and user friendly summary of the findings and ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Media Movers 2022-2025
£75,000 09/07/2022
To support the Media Movers project.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to On Road Limited
£75,000 20/06/2022
For general support of an organization that trains and nurtures people with direct experience of migration to communicate impactfully through popular culture
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 17/06/2022
Helping people with lived experience to tell their stories in the media in order to improve public understanding of issues including poverty, domestic violence, gender diversity, migrants, climate ....more
Gower Street - Core Cost support
£35,000 29/03/2022
To support the core costs of On Road Media’s climate work
Mark Leonard Trust - Towards delivering its strategic climate change communications project.
£50,000 09/02/2022
Towards delivering its strategic climate change communications project.
J J Charitable Trust - Towards delivering its strategic climate change communications project
£50,000 09/02/2022
Towards delivering its strategic climate change communications project
True Colours Trust - Towards 'Interact and Learn' working with healthcare professionals
£25,000 21/12/2021
Towards research to better understand attitudes to children's palliative care amongst other healthcare professionals.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to On Road Media
£49,827 11/11/2021
On Road Media
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£33,571 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£60,000 15/06/2021
24
over two years as unrestricted continuation funding for a national charity which works with people who experience marginalisation, aiming to change the way in which their experience is presented in ....more
Trust for London - On Road Media
£158,500 11/06/2021
36
This funding is to supercharge the “Poverty in the Media” network by training and supporting both its growing London-based group of people who have experienced poverty and London sector ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Core Costs
£75,000 27/05/2021
36
Towards the costs of their "Angles: A Different Take on Sexual and Domestic Abuse" project to improve media coverage of sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Gower Street - Core Cost support
£32,751 29/03/2021
Communications messaging on CC
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - On Road Media
£100,000 18/03/2021
Foundational support for a sustained public facing digital campaign which will bring to life a new ocean and climate narrative in stories that reach and inspire many millions of people. How we tell ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£2,000 14/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Mark Leonard Trust - Phase 2 of Strategic Communications Work
£30,000 12/01/2021
Phase 2 of Strategic Communications Work
True Colours Trust - Work to improve the public understanding of children’s palliative care
£208,304 08/12/2020
Work to improve the public understanding of children’s palliative care
True Colours Trust - Research on public understanding of children’s palliative care
£22,850 25/08/2020
Research on public understanding of children’s palliative care
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Backbone Grants 2019-20 Supporting a Thriving Civil Society
£200,000 28/07/2020
On Road is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant supports OTR to ....more
CAF - Grant to On Road
£6,500 06/07/2020
3
Grant to On Road to support the organisation through COVID19
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - All About Trans: establishing a strategic communications organisation led by transgender people
£60,000 10/06/2020
On Road is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues Tis grant supports On Road to set up All About Trans as a separate organisation led by ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£10,000 16/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£10,000 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £10,000, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to On Road Limited
£180,000 31/03/2020
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to develop the organisation’s “slow comms” approach and therefore support voluntary sector organisations to strategically influence more nuanced media coverage, ....more
J J Charitable Trust - Strategic Communications work
£33,320 05/02/2020
Towards strategic communications work in collaboration with Frameworks Institute
Mark Leonard Trust - Strategic Communications work
£33,320 22/01/2020
Towards strategic communications work in collaboration with Frameworks Institute
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Evaluation to test On Road's model and theory of change
£9,975 20/12/2019
4
To evaluate a programme model that connects activists and people with lived experience of particular issues with high level media contacts to improve coverage of misrepresented groups and topics.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£120,000 28/11/2019
36
£120,000 over three further and final years (3 x £40,000) towards media training courses, interactions, and peer support, as part of the All About Trans and Angles projects in support of London ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards a scoping exercise on children’s palliative care
£11,450 25/10/2019
Towards a scoping exercise on children’s palliative care
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Media Movers North
£75,000 13/07/2019
36
To support the Media Movers project on migration.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to On Road Ltd
£75,000 12/07/2019
36
Media Movers North
Trust for London - On Road Limited
£100,000 05/06/2019
24
The funding is for our Talking About Poverty network which aims to train and support London-based groups of people who have experienced poverty.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to On Road Limited
£150,000 31/01/2019
36
For support of the Media Movers Project to bring young migrants together with media organizations to create representative coverage
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - New role: Interactions and Press Officer for All About Trans
£60,000 14/05/2018
24
On Road is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. The grant would fund the ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£90,000 20/02/2018
36
over three years towards the CEO's salary at a national charity which works with people who experience marginalisation, aiming to change the way in which their experience is presented in and treated ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Media Movers: Building a network of young migrant media activists
£50,000 11/12/2017
12
Media Movers is a pilot programme to test On Road Media’s “interaction” method to improve coverage of media relating to young people who migrate. The programme will identify and introduce ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to On Road Ltd
£80,000 23/11/2017
24
£80,000 over two years (£40,000, £40,000) towards the media training courses and interactions, and the cost of the activist network meetings, for both the All About Trans and Angles projects
National Lottery Community Fund - Reframe - Sexual Abuse and the Media
£10,000 31/05/2017
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney, serving beneficiaries across England. The group will challenge the media's portrayal of sexual abuse by media training volunteers, who will form a peer ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - All About Trans: Transgender healthcare and the media
£10,000 20/01/2016
12
The group will use the funding to run a series of interactions with the media and medical professionals to bring about better coverage and raise awareness of the issues faced by transgender people.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core funding for Trans and Sexual Abuse and the media
£120,000 16/03/2015
36
1. Trans: Delivering the "interaction" method with Education and health professionals. 2: Sexual abuse: Consultations and community building resulting in a plan of action.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to On Road Limited
£120,000 19/11/2014
Towards costs associated with improving how marginalised groups are represented and treated in the media, education and health sectors.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - All About Trans: Patchwork
£57,667 23/07/2013
Testing how young people can influence the way the media reports trans issues and stimulating a wider youth led movement.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Second Friend
£2,500 11/10/2012
SOF innovation camp runner up - Scond Friend is an online and SMS text message system that can be used by migrant and youth support organisations increase their ability to communicate with young ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to On Road Limited
£20,000 18/09/2012
Towards the salary of the project manager to co-ordinate the delivery of the Trans Media Action programme improving public and media understanding of transsexual/transgender people in the UK.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-47
  • EWAN BENNIE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Communications
  • NINA SPATARU (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Grant Maker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/01/2016, number: 1165237
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/06/2008, number: 06624806
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR17: 4 days late,
Main office

The Green House
244-254 Cambridge Heath Road
Bethnal Green
London
E2 9DA

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, PARTICULARLY IN RESPECT OF COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE UNDER-REPRESENTED OR MISREPRESENTED IN THE MEDIA; (B) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS BY ENABLING ACCESS TO AND EFFECTIVE USE OF A RANGE OF MEDIA TOOLS, SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGY;(C) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY WORKING WITH AND TRAINING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND THE MEDIA INDUSTRY.

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